By the yardstick that both the CIA and the IMF have adopted as the single best measure of national economies, China now has the largest economy in the world. : worldnews

[–] darkernations@lemmygrad.ml 56 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (2 children)

Americans—including this author—believe that the international security order the United States constructed in the aftermath of World War II and has been the guardian of in the decades since then has been a remarkable era in human history. This unprecedented “long peace” has provided stability that has enabled not only Americans but most of the other eight billion souls with whom we share this small planet to enjoy greater increases in income, health, and well-being than in any other era of recorded history.

Only a self-deluded parasitic culture could produce such a failure of a human being.

[–] yogthos@lemmygrad.ml 34 points 3 months ago (1 children)

he comes from a hive of parasitic wasps

[–] Collatz_problem@hexbear.net 17 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Given that host usually dies, those WASPs are parasitoid, not parasitic.

[–] yogthos@lemmygrad.ml 14 points 3 months ago

touche

[–] PostingInternational@lemmygrad.ml 27 points 3 months ago

This so called “Pax Americana” we occasionally hear about, only applies to Western countries, but the author is trying to expand it to entire world, which is obviously ridiculous, given, you know…the reality.

[–] Infamousblt@hexbear.net 51 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (4 children)

Tomorrow's Headline: IMF announces new metric for defining the size of the economy. This metric removes all industries that actually build things and instead only includes the financial industry.

[–] Rom@hexbear.net 28 points 3 months ago

A measurement based entirely on student loan and medical debt, and sales of guns and child-crushing pickup tricks.

[–] moujikman@hexbear.net 18 points 3 months ago

They just happen to publish a new System of National Accounts (SNA) every time this happens. Last time it was to put more emphasis on R&D.

[–] Palacegalleryratio@hexbear.net 15 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

Turns out the only valid™ measure of the economy, is the total citizens medical debt.

USA No.1!!! joker-amerikkklap

[–] Shinhoshi@lemmygrad.ml 13 points 3 months ago

So, the unadjusted GDP per capita and the inflation metrics that don't include essential spending then?

[–] PolandIsAStateOfMind@lemmygrad.ml 33 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Share of global manufacturing graph ends at 2019 XD

[–] yogthos@lemmygrad.ml 33 points 3 months ago

lol I guess the latest was just too embarrassing to post

[–] bobs_guns@lemmygrad.ml 18 points 3 months ago (1 children)

What an odd article.

[–] redtea@lemmygrad.ml 16 points 3 months ago

I concur. I liked how creative it was, still.

[–] collapse_already@lemmy.ml 7 points 3 months ago

Good for them. They have the largest population. They should have the biggest economy. India is starting to catch up too. I don't understand the handwringing.

[+] cordlesslamp@lemmy.today -16 points 3 months ago (4 children)

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[–] HorseRabbit@lemmy.sdf.org 28 points 3 months ago (3 children)

Weird and racist.

Also doesn't the US actually have a vast slave labour force? Aren't 1 in 15 black men in for profit prisons making fucking licence plates or pudding or whatever.

[–] l0tusc0bra@lemmygrad.ml 29 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (3 children)

Hillary had actual ~~slaves~~ extremely cheap prisoner-servants at the governor's mansion.

[–] PolandIsAStateOfMind@lemmygrad.ml 12 points 3 months ago

She's truly the Founding Mother, just late.

[–] 666@lemmygrad.ml 8 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

Am remembering that my participating in government teacher had a picture of himself posing with actual Hillary Clinton on a framed photo on his desk.

A ghoul memento. And a lesson in P.I.G.

[–] SinoSoviet_Drip@lemmygrad.ml 2 points 3 months ago

✨historic✨

[–] AnarchoAnarchist@hexbear.net 8 points 3 months ago

https://maltajusticeinitiative.org/12-major-corporations-benefiting-from-the-prison-industrial-complex-2/

Making frozen McDonald's hamburgers, working in call centers for Verizon and Sprint, making jeans and fancy panties, and taking reservations for American airlines.

Not to mention the work farms that produce food, raise and process cattle.

A typical American, over the course of a week, consumes several products and utilizes several services that are reliant on prison slave labor.

[–] simply_surprise@lemmygrad.ml 2 points 3 months ago

Unnecessarily pedantic point: for-profit prisons are less common (though they exist). The companies that scalp money from the prisoners for goods and services, and the companies that "pay" them for labor are all for profit.

[–] l0tusc0bra@lemmygrad.ml 23 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (1 children)

It's true, I'm one of the slaves. They have us towing giant blocks of granite through the Gobi desert to make a 500 ft tall monument to Xi.

[–] booty@hexbear.net 9 points 3 months ago

weakest chinese supersoldier

[–] yogthos@lemmygrad.ml 19 points 3 months ago

If it did then burger empire would have a thriving economy my little wasp

[–] darkernations@lemmygrad.ml 17 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

A lot of us here were liberals (both "left wing" and right wing) once.

Imperialist appropriation in the world economy: Drain from the global South through unequal exchange, 1990–2015 (60 min read)

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S095937802200005X

Rich countries rely on a large net appropriation of resources from the global South. Drain from the South is worth over $10 trillion per year, in Northern prices. The South’s losses outstrip their aid receipts by a factor of 30. Unequal exchange is a major driver of underdevelopment and global inequality. The impact of excess resource consumption in the North is offshored to the South.

Understanding Unequal Exchange: How does trade imperialism affect the global working class? (20 min read)

https://anticonquista.com/2021/05/19/understanding-unequal-exchange-how-does-trade-imperialism-affect-the-global-working-class/

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