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> I see the rest of the world becoming more similar to China than the other way around, unfortunately.

I hope they enjoy the mediocrity that comes with state-dominated economies.

> The US is already a pseudo-Soviet state economically.

Maybe I'm blind, but I have no idea how someone looks at the USA and concludes this.

Extremely inequality that keeps increasing, political movements that try to change this are killed in the crib, a dying empire.

Just because the Central Comittee is called Blackrock, doesn't mean the American economy is not being more and more centrally planned. Free Enterprise is dying.

I mean economically, the political system is still "free" (less and less), it's not a dictatorship (yet).

> Just because the Central Comittee is called Blackrock, doesn't mean the American economy is not being more and more centrally planned.

Of course, you'll mention BlackRock, the never-ending boogeyman for people with little economic knowledge.

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