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Re:The Young, Inexperienced Engineers Aiding Elon Musk’s Gov... by azakai on Monday February 03, 2025 @08:01PM (#42925929)
True that the US's share of global GDP is lower than it has been. But there are many other ways to measure its power (and dominance), so it is easy to argue about this between reasonable people.

Rather than make any specific point, I'd recommend acoup's detailed post about the US's overwhelming dominance across a huge swath of areas:

https://acoup.blog/2022/07/08/collections-is-the-united-stat...

I think he makes a good case there, even if you are right and by some measurements the US did better in the past.

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Re:The Young, Inexperienced Engineers Aiding Elon Musk’s Gov... by elzbardico on Monday February 03, 2025 @08:15PM (#42926081)
The US is still the most powerful economy in the world. No question about it. What I was questioning was the argument from OP that it never have been as dominant since WWII. And no, the US has been way more powerful in the past, even if it is still the most powerful economy.
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