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[โ€“] AntiOutsideAktion@lemmy.ml 12 points 2 months ago

๐Ÿท Quick! Invent another way to package mortgages!

[โ€“] Enkers@sh.itjust.works 7 points 2 months ago (1 children)

The US is struggling to even maintain its democracy, and all the while, excessive wealth extraction is strangling its economy. They're stagnating, so it's not at all surprising that a country with 4x the population would overtake it eventually.

[โ€“] dessalines@lemmy.ml 5 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

The US is not a democracy, it's a capitalist dictatorship.

[โ€“] Triton420@mander.xyz 4 points 2 months ago

The CIA metrics were big when I was in Econ classes