Thread 60815199

Americans, why are you so rich?

>>60815199 (OP)
you can get into the amex lounge with a platinum card which is only $700 a year. most mutt "wealth" is plywood box equity (paper gains with an insane holding cost.) i say this as a fellow niggermutt zogslave.

>take a relatively unguarded resource rich continent
>take the world's premier race of people
>filter so that only the most ambitious/enterprising/high agency of those people immigrate/settle over for ~300 years (until about 1920 or so), creating a mini evolutionary event
>they come over and immediately set about to building all sorts of business, economy, infrastructure, and have a literal genetic desire to work/achieve/consume

We have degraded since then but the general recipe stays the same. What's hurting us now is the loss of a sense of nation that really sent us into overdrive in the 1950's.

>>60815211
US economic output skyrocketed with the mid 19th century oil rush. economic output is highly correlated with energy consumption. there's nothing special about americans (other than them not being mentally retarded negroids.)

>>60815232

There is something special about Americans and it's time that people stopped pretending like genetics aren't literally all destiny. You filtered for high agency/ambition northwestern Europeans and gave them a large map to play with and a fresh blueprint, magic happened.

>>60815241
retarded we wuz kangz tier cope.

>>60815201
>death of amex lounge
Let me guess, niggers?

>>60815199 (OP)
>>60815201
Buy an ad.

>>60815241
Lel, all the psycho religious criminals came to america. Per capita america has more resources to exploit and has a feologic advantage without any enemies at borders .
Most of the past 100 years of American exceptionalism has been driven by immigrants first from eu and then from asia . Also americans with asian decent make more money compared to their white counterparts.

>>60815295
No
The lower middle class got taxed to death and is in "1 medical emergency away from homeless" tier and the upper middle class stayed stagnant and actually grew over time. Theres 23 millionaire combined households in the US, being wealthy isn't special anymore unless youre one of the billionaires now

>>60815249

>wuz

WE ARE KANGZ. KNEEL YOU LITTLE NIGGER.

>>60815327

It's funny how you guys simultaneously whine about how much Americans love to work/consume, while also denying the clear and obvious genetic/cultural need an American has for working and doing things. Along with the semi-nomadism that necessitates a car and road infrastructure. The answers are simple and right there and like a stupid little pig you simply whine about and contradict yourself.

>>60815356
cloud based storage solutions and LLMs aren't an economy. if you work for a living your life has been getting worse for the past 30 years.

>>60815377

The things you mention are plaguing the rest of the world even worse, so it's a moot point. Yes, as the world has become more mongrelized and niggerized it has declined, that follows my original reasoning. "Prosperity" is downstream of northwestern Europeans.

>>60815211
>filter so that only the most ambitious/enterprising/high agency of those people immigrate/settle over for ~300 years

Kek what filter? There were millions of people escaping famine (Irish for example, which were seen as a race similiar to how we see mudslimes today btw), war refugees (The german unification wars for example) and just a huge amount if people who couldn’t make in europe. Also you’re beyong clueless if you think it was ”sense of nation” that made the fifties happen and not rest of the industrialized world flattening itself, twice. Sure whites moving to a new continent and killing the natives is always a good move, but the reason why USA became the top dog was because it got incredibly lucky with the world wars happening. This can be seen in the fact that as europe rises again and takes it’s natural position as the top power, USA starts to become just one nation among many.

>>60815330
Well then the wop author is wrong. I was in the lounge twice recently as a guest and it was filled with nigspic mutts. One of them was roused from his slumber by someone calling his cellphone about welfare (fraud) during covid which he promptly hung up on.
Besides the free food (the cookies were good) it was actually worse than holing up in some quiet section of the airport.

>>60815408
Most American schools like to teach about how big dick the American military is during ww2, they don't pull the bandaid and realize American got very lucky from all hands on deck industrial innovation
This is why theres a retarded as fuck baby boomer "BRING BACK MIUSA!!!" movement that wont die until they do, they have nostalgia for literal wartime slop

>>60815422
Thats not really the persons fault, travel cards nowadays have like a 100 fee and you get as much airport benefits as anyone else in a lounge with them

>>60815408

Read about American history pre-1920. It was brutal. This was a land of settlers, not immigrants, for a very long time. Settlers had high casualty rates and were forced to fend for themselves with no stable established industrial/agricultural grid. They were equivalent to Europeans in like 2000 BC.

There is no "luck", it's pretty obvious system factors actually. No one is "luckily" surmounting them right now even as they decline. Despite everything America marches onward and has left its home continent in the dust.

>>60815428
USA financed the war but it was russian men who fought their way to Germany (and died by tens of millions).

>>60815356
Mostly services and cloud. Apple is declining, so Nvidia is the only real company there. Tesla maybe.

>>60815356
>Cloud storage slop
There is at most 2 companies in there that are real and not fake data center trash

>>60815437
Jesus christ have you read a single history book during your life? You’re spouting complete nonsense, 2000 bc lmao. Did you think europeans had all the amenities of modern world in 19th century? Places in europe and eurasia were being colonized then too. What absolute nonsense. If you had studied history, you would know that luck always plays a big part.

>>60815210
Plywood is genuinely good building material

>>60815471

>places in Europe were being colonized too
>19th century

lmfao

>>60815464
>>60815470

Absolute and total cope, don't make me start dumping my Yuropoor folder, I've been giving yall a break

>>60815295
Well, it says it's a zoo.

>>60815479
My moms side come from colonizers of fucking eastern finland. You’re overestimating how hard it was to be a colonizer. There was unlimited land and resources for everyone. And most immigrants moved to societies and cities/towns already established.

>>60815476
It is but it isnt. The issue is most houses nowadays are built with corners cut and infinite maintenance costs and not lasting potential
You won't get a good home unless you actually buy land and hire a custom builder and an architect. Premanufactured communities (basically most of florida now) all the homes are basically drywall shacks that will collapse sooner than anything

>>60815365
So the indians are genetically superior , got it . Top kek . Kys you poltard you are too dumb to have an opinion about anything.

>>60815495

I'm actually not dipshit

>read about the original settlements and towns in the 1600s and 1700s
>it was agony to try to recruit people to come over
>a few boats of 400 would show up, 80% of them would die to starvation/disease/indians within 2 years, rinse and repeat

It was a literal science experiment. You took these people wholly and entirely used to the ease of agricultural civilization and semi industrialized society and suddenly forced them to play hunter-gatherer. It was brutal. And this effect continued wherever the frontier was, and the frontier was where all new arrivals were ushered to for a long time. After the English/French/Dutch braved the initial frontier, Germans/Irishmen came after to handle the midwest and west.

>>60815526

Nah, there's a reason I said pre 1920. Obviously the world has changed now. These are coattailers that get handpicked from India's 99th percentile and immediately put into a cushy job at an established corpo. This is fucking nothing compared to the settler life of the 1700s or 1800s.

>>60815536
Your retaedation knows no bounds. Immense prosperity in america is post ww2 . America was a back country hick . The economic power of pre1900 america was built on the backs of free labor .

You should kys because your ideas are not only shitty they are verifiably wrong.

>>60815740

Prosperity is build over decades you absolute window licking cock monkey. It doesn't materialize "in a decade." All of the variables and factors necessary were produced by the tireless, ambitious, innovative work of the giants that preceded the boomers, not the boomers themselves. This is entirely what I mean. America went through a mini-speciation event going from 0 to superpower in 250 years. Notice no one else in this hemisphere came close. It was a miracle and it was driven by overpowered people.

>>60815199 (OP)
>Why does traveling suck now?
They literally printed trillions of dollars during the scamdemic. All of that is still floating around, albiet in a small fraction of the population.
Social media
Women aren't having kids
Women have all the high paying jobs now
Most of the newrich in America are Asian immigrants

It’s pretty simple. The wealth of the author increased 150-200% because all his assets were in the standard S&P mix. Meanwhile Billionaires wealth increased 250-300% because they owned tech companies. So yes, as long as wealth inequality goes up, you will continue to get less special Mr. Author as you slowly sink into the income quintiles of the common man you seem to despise so much

>>60815249
This is a stupid thesis because energy consumption is one of the best metrics to measure how rich a place is.
>why poor country no use more power?

>>60815740
>>60815526
>random spacing between commas and periods
Butthurt turd worlder detected. God I miss when people with feces-colored skin didn't have internet access.

>>60816140
Lol. I am american. But i dont take kindly to retards making stupid arguments to justify their nonsense world views. You should kys, because you are a failure in life and your mind is trash.
American exceptionalism is strengthened by legal immigration, and has been literally the driver for american prosperity.

>>60815201
>18% of households are millionaire
Really do need at least $20 million to have made it these days.

>>60815211
>What's hurting us now is the loss of a sense of nation that really sent us into overdrive in the 1950's.
World war 2?

Not only are Americans rich, but they're completely guilt free as well. That's what really gets to me. How can anyone have so much money and not feel guilty? There's something wrong with Americans, clearly. As soon as an European person makes it into the upper middle class, he automatically starts thinking about how to give his money away to people that deserve it more than him. And that's a good thing. Paying the highest taxes on earth isn't enough, there has to be a sense of community as well.

>>60815199 (OP)
vacations are not "cutt throat competitions" lol
was just in bermuda

>>60816249
Yikes aristocracy really did a number on you cucks… now go pay for Mohammad’s daycare.

>>60816249
>As soon as an European person makes it into the upper middle class, he automatically starts thinking about how to give his money away to people that deserve it more than him.

Bullshit

>>60815201
>Too many people got too rich and it’s impacting the housing market, vacation hotspots, and airport lounges alike.

Yeah but that's only a problem if you really care about that shit. Yes, luxury goods have seen levels of inflation well above the norm, but well ok so what, you're living a very comfy life if you shop at Costco. If you're upset, just wait for an recession and enjoy trillions getting wiped off the market and the lounges getting less crowded

yeah and there's no way airport lounges are a good metric for how rich people are lol

>>60816068
It's a proxy for infrastructure. op is saying that proper infrastructure has a better correlation to economic success than being white.

>>60816249
Calvinism, unironically. You are rich because God wanted you to be rich. That's why Americans can be drinking a 10k calorie frapuccino next to a homeless with aids.

>>60816201
>strengthened by legal immigration
Fuck off we’re full.

>>60816459
Your retard brain cant comprehend american growth has been only fueled by immigration. Go kys you are a failure , cluldnt even beat the immigrants in your own home country.

>>60815531
These absolute frontiersmen were a small part of the population. And every nation went trough things like this, think how many wars happened during that time in europe.

>>60816249
Kek happened to me. I see wealth as disgusting hedonism. As overcompensation for having a small dick.

>>60815199 (OP)
we're not. most households' money is only on paper in the stock market. savings haven't risen -that- much.

https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/W398RC1A027NBEA

>>60815199 (OP)
there aren't "too many millionaires", there are too many retards with money who bottleneck into dumb overpriced shit they see on tv and twitter. there are so many options that are simply overlooked by mouthbreathers

1 in every 5 Americans is a millionaire.. If you're still clinking shitcoins together, it's already far too late for you unfortunately

>>60815526
Indians in the US undergo a selective process, so we are mostly getting the "high quality" (relatively) indians. Also, indians tend to live in households of 8-10 people, and often several of them are working at once, which skews the household numbers higher

>>60816715
>savings hasn't risen
Anyone keeping a lot of money in savings is genuinely retarded.

>>60816201
> I am american
Confirmed for indian

>>60816201
Repeating dogma doesn't make it true.

>>60815199 (OP)
bought a house for $80k 40 years ago

>>60817480
It's not retarded, actually. A good HYSA or MMF will pay about the same % as both short, and long, term government bonds right now.

>>60815526
those indians were cherry picked from india; they're the smartest from that country. you want to know what real indians are like go to india. good luck

>>60819115
according to the retard poster I was responding to , so were the white people who came here , yet the indians outperform them.

>>60816746
20% of americans are not millionaires, retard

>>60817603
and saying retard shit outloud doesnt make it true like you.The numbers are pretty obvious where the indian americans are making more money then whites and out competing them.
>>60817499
lol, what ever faggot. go back to your sad life where jeets are out performing you.

>>60816746
it's 1 in 20 aka 5%, not 20%

>>60819128
read
>>60817437
This isn't indians "outcompeting" whites. For the metric of household income, the top 1% of indians are competing against the entire pool of whites in america, and indians have more earners per household than whites. They have a huge selection advantage, and still it takes more than 2 of them to not even double the average white household income. Even the top tier indians are incredibly poor performers in that regard.