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Originally Posted by cmac2012
Some of it is due to our being the top dog and ruthlessly leveraging that position to get the king's cut out of every country we "help" (ourselves to). Not that being top dog is necessarily evil, but one needs to be careful with that kind of power.
American at 5% of the world's population doesn't consume 35-40% of the world's resources by accident.
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Why are you so concerned with that? Ever see the pic of fish where a big fish is eating a smaller fish who is eating an even smaller fish all the way to a minow? It is par for the course. If you don't like it, leave the country. Find a smaller fish and stay there. When you see that they are using their position to leverage another group, leave there. If you keep going, you might end up in a place where they won't do that.
Well, when you consider that many places are agriculture based and non producing of anything, it might explain it. Besides, we are reaping what we sowed from decades past of work, as you explained.