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That's because the US is a profit farm for US corporations (& a tax farm for those making bank on US foreign policy) so they can subsidize the rest of the world. Food, medicine, you name it — bottom-of-the-barrel service & quality for the average person & below in the US at top-dollar prices, & the people in the middle & below classes think they're doing well because it's all they know.

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>That's because the US is a profit farm for US corporations....so they can subsidize the rest of the world.

Do you mean the corporations subsidise the rest of their corporations (ie cheap usa kfc supports mmm-lovely jpn kfc etc), or the subsidies extend to 'the rest of the world' in general?

I think what OP is saying is that corporations can charge USA people absurdly high prices for terrible quality stuff (reaping huge profits) because we allow it, whereas overseas, the same corporations have to accept lower margins and provide better product/service because non-Americans wont accept it. Not sure I 100% buy that, but it does sound kind of truthy.

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