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That shouldn't be too difficult should it?

Romania and a few other "2nd world" countries can hack it, so why can't the US?

Oh I just remembered. It is the country where people in dire need worry about a $3000 dollar charge for taking them to a hospital. We are not even going get started on the hospital charges.

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The thing about "first world" countries is that the people who build and maintain things expect to be paid first world wages. We've started to find some workarounds to this (eg teleoperated food delivery from developing countries with low latency) but it's an ongoing process.

First world wages go to cover higher rents.

Which is why China is beating America because too much expenditure goes on rents and by rents I don't mean building rents, but the whole chain of bodies that take the cream of the top of everything that is produced, even before the production starts.

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