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Looking at the current state of the United States, it makes one wonder if the United States is still the United States of the past?

The foundation of American greatness

By thecongPublished 4 years ago 4 min read

The basis of Roosevelt's New Deal in 1933 was to give the financial-industrial and commercial monopoly interest groups already formed in the United States that can basically control the resources of the whole society the opportunity to deeply intervene in the political stability of the basic interests. Therefore, it was possible to directly depreciate the dollar against gold by 41%, while None of these successful large organizations that grew up through Darwinian brutality from the Gilded Age to the New Deal stage was not full of organizational efficiency. Therefore, in the process of "gold coins forging gold seals", the overall competitiveness of American society is presented This is the key to realizing the life of "two people, two cars, two children, one room, one dog, vegetable salad sandwich, black pepper steak cocktail" in the United States later in the Eisenhower period.

But the problem is that the expansion of US interests after World War II was based on the US dollar's status as a world currency, and the world currency and distribution tools could not have both (the former has a limited share of water release, while the latter is mainly achieved by directional water release). Re-industrialization was completed after the funds were in place. However, due to the economic regression caused by the war, local labor costs and currency exchange rates were low. At the same time, due to the threat of war from the vanguard of the Cold War, local capitalists needed to deposit money in the account of the United States to preserve its value (this At the same time, it also caused the exchange rate of these countries' currencies against the US dollar to drop again.) The combination of the two led to the outflow of US dollars, which was equivalent to the gold bill of exchange at that time, which was equivalent to the outflow of gold from the United States. On the eve of the US dollar crisis, the old US treasury More than 60% of the gold inside has been drained. In order to fight the Cold War with Maozi, the United States must also invest a lot of money into heavy assets and geopolitical games, fighting the arms race, the space race, and the hot war in the Cold War. This led to the industrial imbalance of the United States during the Cold War was no worse than that of the Soviet Union. By the 1970s, the competitiveness of the US light industry was basically under the impact of Japan and Europe, and due to the financial turmoil caused by the outflow of the US dollar, the gold in the US treasury could no longer repay the currency it issued. The Don Woods system collapsed.

The outbreak of the oil crisis in 1972 hit America's high-energy-consuming heavy industries hard. The increase in the cost of energy input combined with the economic crisis and the rising social maintenance costs caused by a large number of light industry practitioners out of production caused the United States to make ends meet. The Vietnam War could not go on either, giving the Soviet Union a geopolitical victory.

At the end of the 1970s, the hope of the United States breaking the game appeared in Jianzhou, and the world immediately entered the era of neoliberalism. With the absorption of the surplus value of East Asia, Southeast Asia and Latin America, the United States got rid of the economic stagnation and was able to let the third technology The result of the revolution has become a cash cow, which has led to the rise of new American capital represented by IBM, Apple, Yahoo, Microsoft, Fairchild, and Oracle, with Silicon Valley in the south of the San Francisco Bay Area in the West Coast, California, as the production base.

At this time, the problem arises. The new capital of the semiconductor-Internet industry that relies on the achievements of the third scientific and technological revolution to expand internationally and the financial capital that relies on military advantages to protect the interests of the global bourgeoisie have become the new channels for the United States to receive money (both are Cold War benefits, Without the Cold War, the United States concentrated a lot of money to break the door to the civilianization of the third scientific and technological revolution, the new capital of the United States semiconductor-Internet could not have appeared, and the technological progress of the United States military-industrial complex would not be so fast) After that, the place for local full-time labor It has become a problem, because they are no longer the source of surplus value, so they have become a useless class, and under the logic of capital, their "investment" cannot be profitable, and this "investment" also includes basic education.

Although the useless class no longer creates surplus value and becomes a burden to society in essence, under the concerns of individual self-awareness, morality and ideology, it does not matter if the useless class breaks the jar and breaks everything and waits for the useless class to fend for itself, which will result in greater pay. The social cost of, therefore, a low-cost rat utopian useless class carbon reduction mechanism emerges. "Use basic food to ensure that they will not die due to lack of nutrition, then use nipple music and anti-intellect to make them lose their self-organization ability, and then use drugs, the proliferation of deadly weapons and high medical costs to harvest" People must pursue themselves Realized animals do not sleep when they are full like animals. When the material channel for self-realization is blocked, spiritual fast food and paralyzing products will naturally sell well. On the basis of anti-intellect, the vortex of weapons and anger makes Harvesting becomes silent, and sex does not create new life.

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