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Re:Why is America so rich? by chailatte on Thursday November 11, 2010 @06:40PM (#1895847)
Why WAS America so rich? Most of the competitions were wiped out by WWII.

But now they've all rebuilt and caught up. Now the US is in trillions of debt, the largest debt holder in the world.

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Re:Why is America so rich? by johngalt on Thursday November 11, 2010 @07:30PM (#1896004)
Why was the competition wiped out? Why did the USA win WWII? I think you'll find a circular reference here.

People act as if American Imperialism is responsible for it's economy, when it's the opposite. We are by no means great war fighters. We just build more than anyone else.

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Re:Why is America so rich? by ZeroGravitas on Friday November 12, 2010 @04:27AM (#1897100)
I would imagine being on a different continent helped tremendously. South America was pretty much untouched too.
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Re:Why is America so rich? by anamax on Friday November 12, 2010 @01:55AM (#1896798)
> We just build more than anyone else.

We also get the misfits from other places.

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