“We’re going to need the help of robots and other forms of, uhhh, I guess you could say employment,” he said, shrugging. “We’re going to be employing a lot of artificial things.”

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    Capitalism is a shit system, but it took ~200 years to corrupt to this point because the power is more distributed (at first).

    The US is reaching the average lifespan of an Empire. Capitalism has not been particularly good at preventing collapse, it has been about average.

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      It’s not just the US; we’re just speed running the end while the western world follows behind.

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        US exceptionalism once again.

        “We’re not shit, everyone is shit! But we’re better at being shit than everyone else!”

        Okay then.

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            Because “everyone else is doing the same thing” isn’t a form of dismissing the problem and burying your head in the sand.

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              Acknowledging that a problem is more wide spread than just one country isn’t dismissing anything. In fact, I addressed that fact that the US is worse than the rest.

              I think your reading comprehension needs some work.