[Vitaly]

Stop with this bullshit. USSR showed growth, it never showed actual great economy. The growth was only impressive so long as it was in a process of getting shit together. Educating population, building basic road infrastructure, etc. when you are in a shithole, you can show impressive growth for a while while getting to a basic level. They never figured out how to actually prosper.

[droptablemain]

A great example of "moving the goalposts."

"Educating [the] population" and "building basic infrastructure" is something we're doing a pretty shoddy job of in the U.S., so the attempt to minimize the significance is pretty disingenuous.

What's your criteria for a nation to "actually prosper?" Hyperdriven, rampant, and mind-numbing consumerism? More millionaires? At the expense of the laborers of which colonized nation?

[_dain_]

So prosperous and happy they had to build a wall to keep people out. Oh, wait.

[malermeister]

>educating population, building basic road infrastructure, etc

So things a not centrally planned economy like the US is failing miserably at? You made a case against your point of view without even realizing it.

[SantalBlush]

Education and basic road infrastructure are severely behind in the US. I think a lot of people look at billionaires flying to space and believe that means the US population is advanced. Sadly, it isn't true. We are lagging in important areas.