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Originally Posted by Pleasurepays
We became the worlds largest economy by adhering to certain ideals. End of story. No one has surpassed us, because they are too busy trying to figure out how to guarantee equality of outcome rather than ensuring equality of opportunity.
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Yeah, our becoming the world's largest economy is only because of a set of ideals. It had nothing to do with Europe and Asia's infrastructure being decimated during World War II while ours was left almost 100% intact, giving us a 15-20 year head start on the post war industrial age.
It has nothing to do with the amount of natural resources we have or the amount of arable land available on our continent.
It's all because of these ideals that you cling to like a religion.
Jesus Christ dude, I can agree that there are good things about capitalism and the free enterprise system, but you worship at the altar like capitalism is Jehovah and you're a witness.
Quit drinking the kool-aid for a minute and realize that there are other possible reasons for our proseperity besides capitalism and that in some cases there are better ways to do things than leave them to the free market.
If you're not willing to do that then you've obviously detached yourself from all logic in order to cling to an ideology, and it's pointless to discuss things with a person who won't respond to reason or logic.