Participation in the World Wars. German was in the right both times. If we did anything at all, it should have been to fight alongside the germans to defeat the Russians, and to defeat the Chinese. Pretty much, the USA is always wrong. Always has been. Puritanism, social democracy, and Communism share the same origins.
https://www.quora.com/What-is-the-biggest-mistake-ever-made-by-the-American-people
Invent a germ that rapidly kills rice and wheat. (Yes, there are people who think of how to do these things.) Or the equivalent that ‘eats’ hydrocarbons (petroleum products). In both cases, all governments and all civilizations would fall rather rapidly, and population would return to agrarian levels. In particular, a germ that would kill rice would kill billions cheaply and quickly, which would drive governments to revolt and war.
https://www.quora.com/If-someone-wanted-to-what-would-they-need-to-realistically-do-in-order-to-topple-all-current-world-governments
Dishonest (Postmodern) question in my opinion.
The USA prosecutes many more minor offenses than does any other nation which accounts for our ability to leave our doors unlocked, and not fence in our yards, or put bars or grids over our windows as does the rest of the world. The only places where we must act like the rest of the world is in our immigrant cities.
We have far less ‘petty crime’ than other nations (except japan for example). We have far less ‘observable’ corruption. We have a huge drug issue and many people in the system for it.
And we have (I will get the usual Quora punishment for truth speaking for saying this) but heterogeneous societies degrade trust, degrade norms, and increase crime. For the simple reason that homogenous and wealthy peoples are marginally indifferent and redistributive and heterogeneous and poor peoples are marginally different and resist redistribution (in either direction).
If you compare ethnic groups they have the same crime rates in america as they do in their home countries. The reasons for this are finally fairly well understood (see Emmanuel Todd’s work on europe for example, or the recent books on the wealth of nations being dependent upon the size of the underclasses, or even Trust by Fukuyama. )
These are just painful truths that are counter to both secular and supernatural religions, as well as marxist postmodernist pseudoscience of the 19th and 20th centuries.
https://www.quora.com/Is-there-any-country-in-the-industrialized-world-that-has-more-students-per-capita-whose-parents-have-been-in-the-criminal-justice-system-as-does-the-US
Since when has any monopoly been good for anyone?
https://www.quora.com/Do-you-think-all-nations-on-Earth-should-unite-as-one
Itâs not possible becasue the two goals are incompatible. The answer is to reverse the mistake of the civil war, and separate the âcoastsâ from the âcoreâ.
https://www.quora.com/How-can-Americans-finally-bridge-the-political-âculture-warâ-between-conservatives-and-liberal-leaning-ideals
Legally and morally are two different things.
The law is not ethical, or moral, or good, or true. It just is.
It’s questionable whether Bezos is acting morally.
As far as I know, at least within reason, he is acting legally.
Asking whether something is legal or not is nonsensical.
Was it productive, fully informed (transparent), warrantied, voluntary, and without imposition of costs against the investments of others? If yes then it is ethical, moral, and hopefully legal.
https://www.quora.com/Do-you-think-the-world’s-first-trillionaire-will-have-earned-the-money-legally
China is a very poor country. But it has more population than the Western world, more population than the African world, about the same or more than the Indian world, less population than the Muslim world, and perhaps most importantly, greater racial and cultural homogeneity than any other people other than the japanese – and that’s coupled with a ‘self righteous’ military, a history and culture of monolithic bureaucracy; no history whatsoever of what we call ‘rule of law’ or individual rights (sovereignty), or peerage; And a severe ‘chip on its shoulder’ for having been backward, and the loser of modern wars, and the poor choice of communism, which is contrary to the Chinese cultural ‘mythos’ that china is the ‘Center of the World’.
So while it is easy for china to ‘catch up from behind’ using authoritarianism, it is very hard to produce a constantly competitive, and constantly evolving economy given ‘chinese characteristics’. (WHich I won’t go into)
Can china use her central bureaucracy to concentrate capital in industry and military to achieve by threat, bribery, and obstruction, that which the west achieved by technical innovation, economic expansion, and ‘dragging the world out of ignorance, superstition, tyranny, poverty, and disease?’
Of course she can.
And there are more nations in this world that do not want meritocracy than do so. And china, russia, and islam, seem poised to conflict with the west, india, and christian africa.
I think the period of the west’s ideals has ended and the future belongs to non-market nations.
Democracy, Liberty, Innovation, Individualism, are western if not scandinavian (english) preoccupations.
The north sea people are, quite honestly, sons of cattle raiders, pirates, vikings, and warriors. It’s a materialistic heritage.
Most people had no such luxury.
https://www.quora.com/Is-China-stronger-than-America
No. the metric system was a mistake. “Human Scale” measurements are superior.
a thumb is an inch.
A foot is a foot.
A yard is an arm.
A mile is a thousand paces.
Fahrenheit is superior for temperature sensitivity.
The only reason for the metric system was to make calculations easier.
https://www.quora.com/Should-the-United-States-switch-to-the-metric-system
I’ve looked into this, and the answer is the same for any developing country: if you can produce a judiciary, police force, and military that will enforce property rights, moral (reciprocal) contracts, and where bureaucrats are open to suit by anyone for corruption, then eventually you will prosper.
Nigeria and Ghana at the very least have nothing but time holding them from becoming an advanced society. There are, in both countries, upper middle class (professionals), and those people are the ones who matter.
https://www.quora.com/You-have-complete-control-of-the-Federal-Republic-of-Nigeria-for-20-years-What-would-you-do-to-better-the-country-across-all-sectors-e-g-education-economy-military-national-unity
There is no validity to the crisis. There is a great deal of validity to the EROI.
The problem is population.
There are too many at the bottom.
https://www.quora.com/How-valid-is-the-claim-that-were-on-the-verge-of-economic-collapse-due-to-the-vanishing-supply-of-cheap-conventional-oil-and-the-declining-energy-return-on-investment-EROI