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That irrelevant so long as the USA controls the world's money printing machine and has the biggest guns.

It is not irrelevant, or no less relevant than the headline comparison.

The biggest guns part gives it more money than it needs and that money has to be put somewhere lest it causes unemployment.

I think debt should be at least normalized by number of citizens. But still...

That makes sense, although sadly it brings the scaled minimum wage down to only around $140/hour

money isn’t real my dude, at least while we have that sweet sweet petrodollar scam going. see MMT.

Remember when they said 10 trillion in debt would cause a massive crisis?

Who said that?