I don't disagree with the overall point you are arguing (AKA I agree with you), but comments like this are of no help to the conversation. I get a strong sense from this and other comments in this thread that you might be anti-American, which strikes me as biased and small minded thinking for someone that seems so intelligent.

This is not intended to be an insult, but be better. There are plenty of forums to act like this on, and HN isn't one of them.

My US high school math was the equivalent of Calculus 2 in college. I don't understand your point.