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        2 months ago

        That was a “common” experience of a small percentage of people. The rest of the world was heavily exploited.

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            So after a global war destroyed every other country, the only place whose industry and infrastructure wasn’t in ruins, whose cities were intact, whose population wasn’t murdered by bombing, some of those people did pretty well.

            US of A is about 4% of the world. And I’m pretty sure not everyone in US wasn’t equally well off.