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The United States has such a large GDP because 1/3 of it is the private healthcare industry. Another massive chunk is the government throwing tax dollars at a shell company of a shell company of a shell company that moves a government contract for construction around to each other 4 times, all subsequently increasing GDP.

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[–] CoolerOpposide@hexbear.net 56 points 4 months ago (2 children)

And they are loaning each other $1000000000 over and over again (with interest)

[–] Tankiedesantski@hexbear.net 60 points 4 months ago (1 children)

And yet Yanks will mock China for struggling to build a 3nm chip while their own country struggles to build a pier. As if one isn't cutting edge high tech and the other isn't maritime technology that's been "solved" for two hundred years.

[–] CoolerOpposide@hexbear.net 59 points 4 months ago (4 children)

The argument I’ve seen Americans using is “well only the US would try/ could build a pier in a war zone halfway across the world” which is entirely untrue.

First, almost every country at war does this.

Second, China regularly builds piers all over the world at a fraction of the cost and multiple times the capacity of this one.

Third, the US didn’t really build a pier at all if it is unusable and breaking after just a week.

But that’s the point anyway. It never had to work. The US just had to pretend to be doing something.

[–] Tankiedesantski@hexbear.net 33 points 4 months ago (1 children)

America still leading the world in the development and application of cope.

[–] CoolerOpposide@hexbear.net 20 points 4 months ago

And it is truly some cutting edge stuff

[–] MayoPete@hexbear.net 16 points 4 months ago

America be quiet quitting

[–] invalidusernamelol@hexbear.net 6 points 4 months ago

I've seen pleasure docks more stable

[–] emizeko@hexbear.net 11 points 4 months ago

Two economists are walking in the park. The first economist sees a pile of dog shit and says to the other, "I'll pay you $50 to eat that dog shit." So he does and gets paid $50. Later on, the second economist sees a pile of dog shit and says to the first, "I'll pay you $50 to eat that pile of dog shit." So he does and gets paid $50.

The first economist says, "I can't help but feel we just ate dog shit for nothing." "Nonsense," says the second economist, "We just contributed $100 to the economy."