A decade ago the Chinese government announced plans to transform the country from "a low-cost manufacturing base into a high-tech superpower". Did it work?
A lot of people forget that the US got wealthy through colonialism and slavery. Then that wealth was used to build up education and other institutions. Somehow though they decided to squander all of that and dismantle any progress made.
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1 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Racism_against_Native_Americans_in_the_United_States#Current_issues
2 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Penal_labor_in_the_United_States
3 https://en.prolewiki.org/wiki/Neocolonialism
A lot of people forget that the US got wealthy through colonialism and slavery. Then that wealth was used to build up education and other institutions. Somehow though they decided to squander all of that and dismantle any progress made.