i dunno about that. i think it's more the military-industrial complex. really, america uses whatever means with their big stick to ensure all money and resources goes through them first, and that is how they control everyone else. that requires maintaining superpower status, and since it doesn't actually require fucking citizens to run it, domestically shit's all retarded and the fuckers upstairs with zero loyalty will inevitably jump ship to the next rising power and do it again. as uncouth as it is to say it, americans as a whole are indeed spoiled shits. for every wageslave is a hundred pencilpushers and a thousand neet content creators. the foundations are held up by foreigners cuz only foreigners stomach that sort of labor that normals disdain and companies gladly accept that cuz it's literally cheaper and the government that only cares about controlling the world don't bother to regulate that insignificant shit.  i get elon's words sound out of touch: i also wageslave. i also know that the industries he sees to are severely lacking cuz who the fuck wants blue collar work and why the fuck would companies pay more when foreigners with zero standards are available? i also know that regulating the company to deny that infinite cheap labor will only fuck shit up more too, cuz companies will either leave or die and jobs will disappear either way unless you subsidize it, which americans also fucking hate lmao. there is no good solution, but the safest one is reconstruct american social concepts. i'm frustrated that i can see the reasoning of this billionaire, cuz i've lived the experience down here and see the problems too.
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