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The collapse of the American empire would benefit almost every other country. I am starting to feel that since I live in America I should want to accelerate the collapse (or make sure one happens if things start to go back to business as usual). Can someone tell me why this is a bad idea so that I don't make a mistake here.

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[–] rainpizza@lemmygrad.ml 4 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

Which goods that a typical worker in the US can buy are either unavailable or marked up to be prohibitively expensive in other countries? And how does someone in the US, with yearly wages of $28,000 PPP (hi, it’s me) exploit a worker in a producer country in the global South with yearly wages of $20,000 PPP [1]? What is the mechanism and extent of exploitation that the worker in the core (as opposed to the business owner in the core) exerts on the worker in the periphery?

These questions deserve a separate post in c/askLemmygrad dedicated to this to help more comrades join in. However, for the first question, a typical US worker, even though it is expensive, can easily find a way to get a great medical service such as Kidney transplant compared to what a Burkinabe just now achieved recently. In the medical service, there are just too many examples and it gets uglier if the country is currently sanctioned by the US.

As for your yearly wage, we can make more comparisons but I prefer if we take this to a different post. Tag me if you have it!