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MBAs and financially driven management are why the US is such a poor country today. If the US was run like Japan or Germany we would be the wealthiest nation on Earth. First this short shortsightedness cost us the brick industry, then steel, and now machine tools. My children are doomed to be burger flippers due to MBAs.

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> .. US is such a poor country today. If the US was run like Japan or Germany we would be the wealthiest nation on Earth.

US is, by a clear margin, the wealthiest nation isn't it? Certainly more so than Germany or Japan.

Edit: I may have missed some sarcasm there.

I think that it's possible for both of you to be right.

If you work in traditional manufacturing in the Midwest and mostly consume domestic goods, then it's easy to feel like the US is circling the drain.

If you work in IT or finance in a coastal city and mostly consume imported goods, then it's easy to feel like the US is in a golden age.

> If the US was run like Japan or Germany we would be the wealthiest nation on Earth.

The US is wealthier than Japan and Germany combined. With room to spare.

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