Quote Originally Posted by TuffStuffMcGruff View Post
We used to make money by exploiting populations for our benefit which used to serve us just fine - I'm not judging anyone. I believe that we have hit a point in time where exploitation is no longer acceptable, but the problem is this; without exploitation - with egalitarianism - we have no standing to maintain our existing parity over the rest of the world. We are left in a conundrum where we are unable to exploit the masses and must elevate them, but this leads to a reduction in our own relative parity. In my opinion, we must accelerate this through a controlled relative decline (not actual decline, only in relation to other cultures), but we cannot do this with the current leadership that illegitimately rules over its people in many parts of the world. We must aid in hatching out all poisons in the muck while we deflate out own grandeur and help educate the world. This is different from colonialism - this is post-colonialism. I can't see another way out, no matter how hard the Federal reserve tries to inflate our economy - we are left to see what fair competition with the rest of the world does to the value of the American worker. I find myself often breathing a sigh of relief when I get a customer service rep from Hyderabad rather than the one from Ohio. Similar educational levels without the entitlement complex.

Show me the moral code which says that it is somehow wrong to go this route and I'll show you a void.
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