It’s a series of highly efficient machines, each optimized to the point of fragility. Think of the supply chain disruptions during Covid. The cost of shipping is so cheap that it can make sense to ship even simple products back and forth across the ocean several times as they move up the value chain. But if one of those links breaks, the whole house of cards collapses. In generations past, commerce needed huge buffers in the supply chains, and the chains themselves were kept simple. In the days of wooden sailing ships, ships arriving late or not all were common. Before computerized inventory tracking and just in time manufacturing, storing large quantities of intermediary parts was also required. These buffers in the systems represented economic inefficiency, but they also produced resiliency.
America is a series of highly efficient industrial juggernauts built on feet of clay. Any good you buy at the grocery store or big box retailer is going to have a huge logistics supply chain behind it. And that chain will be, in economic terms, highly efficient. It will also be very fragile.
I’m not American, but surely this is some form of false dichotomy when you restrict answers to such inflammatory options?
It’s not worded where it’s either one or the other, they’re asking “is it this, or this?” Anyone can say “it’s neither, here’s why”.
It’s a well oiled machine for transferring wealth from the poor to the rich.
Are you expecting multiple continents to just disappear or something?
In one word, “dysfunctional”.
Edit: yes, I made a mistake and corrected it after I read SpaceNoodle’s remark.
Too bad that’s not a word
Edit: it was misspelled before, y’all
Now it is
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Its a well oiled machine for the right class and is working as intended for them. Everyone else is stuck in the grind in subservience.
America is a rather young country compared to others. The others have gone through these issues already.
America is still around because a continent does not go down easily.
The society and the country called Us and a which you are probably talking about, they are very busy at the moment with de-inventing themselves.
It’s well oiled for the people running it.
It’s (barely?) good enough for the people who are units in the calculation.
