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> The US has evolved into a modern dystopia

> America's democracy may not even be a democracy

> Republicans are currently digging themselves in to remove as much democracy

Here's the ideological intensity that the article mentioned. This is delusional.

The smartest, most driven people still come to the US to start businesses and seek fortune, because it's the best place in the world to do so.

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I'm not from the US, so I suppose I don't know. One of my uncles immigrated there and works in a VA hospital. The stories he tells me, of people dying of ailments that are common in the third world, seems to suggest otherwise.

> The smartest, most driven people still come to the US to start businesses and seek fortune, because it's the best place in the world to do so.

Rates of entrepreneurship are higher in Scandinavian countries[1].

It's also easier to start your own business in such countries because you don't already have to be wealthy enough to afford spending $36k in premiums alone each year for your family's health insurance on the individual market.

[1] https://www.oecd.org/sdd/business-stats/EAG-2018-Highlights....

Everything f38zf5vdt said and that you've quoted here can be true (at least subjectively) while your own reply is also true. You're not actually addressing or contradicting their arguments, such as they are, just declaring them categorically invalid because "capitalism."

> The smartest, most driven people still come to the US to start businesses and seek fortune, because it's the best place in the world to do so.

Keep believing that myth.

If a highly-skilled individual wants to amass the most monetary wealth possible, which geographies do you think would be better than the USA and why?

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