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Not really, US has barely 16% or so.

Trick about USA is that it is really open for business and private ownership and investment into anything. Unlike almost any other sizeable country.

Entire world can't avoid the US if they want to say, save for retirement (because stock market everywhere else is an absolute joke because their governments want it so).

Entire world can't avoid the US if they, on the other hand, want VC funding (just because in some countries a "startup" in the American sense is literally illegal, and in almost all countries, in practice impossible because no one will invest without a tangible collateral).

And the list goes on. That's why the world is whole lot frightened now with what Trump is doing because all of us - from Europe to China - know that without America, we are simply not.

It's safe to say that if not the American market, my life and life of literally everyone with any cash who i know, even those not realising it, will simply never happen in any positive way.



> Entire world can't avoid the US if they, on the other hand, want VC funding (just because in some countries a "startup" in the American sense is literally illegal, and in almost all countries, in practice impossible because no one will invest without a tangible collateral).

I'm a bit confused by the sentiment here. Do I understand correctly that you're saying the rest of the world has made "startups" in the American sense illegal, but is also terrified of losing in America what they've deliberately outlawed domestically?


Yes! Because their socialist-ish or simply paternalist/statist governments made things illegal to prevent "inequality" or simply to keep things under state control as much as possible, but the people want to save for retirement and they want to build startups, too.

Quite obviously, interests of people, society, and the state are always in contradiction.

People want to be rich and free.

Government wants to control and redistribute (merely as a tool of control), and make people into slaves.

Society wants equality (inequality creates oligarchy and poor masses too easy to manipulate).

So they are all in inevitable contradiction and countries mostly differ in who of them is stronger: in America, people are the strongest. In Europe, societies are. In Russia, state is.

America provides all of us a way out of the contradiction: countries can be statist of socialist however they like; people channel their capitalist instincts to America. The entire world lives this double life for generations and we are all frightened with the perspective of this ending one day. If that happens, rest of the world could be truly devoured by millions of ambitions people now seeing no way to realise their ambitions.




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