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chrisco255today at 12:18 AM2 repliesview on HN

Yeah, its no accident that the U.S. is the number one economy, it comes from that kind of thinking across the populace. Complacency gets you conquered.


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dataflowtoday at 1:40 AM

Number one economy if you ignore the comical debt. The US is borrowing from the future. Those chickens are going to come home to roost.

teaearlgraycoldtoday at 1:14 AM

We could do with a little less of it IMO. But I have heard plenty from European expats about the entrenched complacency over there. I'm told people looking to improve some system or product run right into a wall of "Why bother?".