Hey, Micro, you're proving my point. Okay, let's take food production. Six million farmers get it done. Uh, what about the other 324 million? I never said America lacked technology or technological superiority, I said that technological superiority was not spread over anything like the entire current population.
There's no
need to do that. There are many people producing goods which may not be tangible or valuable to you, but which are clearly valuable to other people, since they're buying them. And the economic superiority of America's farmers and other producers is what allows labor to be freed up for these things.
Heart transplants, software - and things that seem to be of no 'tangible' value, like banking services, films, plays, private space ventures, and so on and so forth. You may not value them this much, but they are part of how modern wealth gets created.
Oh, and about that food stuff? Since 2008, China has been a net
food importer. Those Chinese workers?
They have 50 times as many Chinese working on a slightly greater amount of land - and yet
they need to import food from America.With all of those 300 million farmers, those oh-so-superior Chinese farmers need to
import food from the United
