(August 18, 2021 at 7:00 am)FlatAssembler Wrote:(August 18, 2021 at 6:04 am)BrianSoddingBoru4 Wrote: What the world has learned is that Americans are - in this regard - astoundingly selfish. Not the ordinary, garden variety ‘I’ve got stuff I’m not going to share with you’ kind of selfish, but a bone chilling ‘I’d rather watch you die than put myself through a minor inconvenience’ kind of selfish.
Boru
And that is the reason America is so successful. Greed is good.
This isn’t greed, exactly. It’s a stunningly cruel and heartless ‘me-ism’ that borders on psychopathy.
To be fair, though, America in other respects has been astoundingly generous throughout much of its history. Private citizens in the US donate more to charity than anyone else, and the US is always among the first to step up when disaster strikes.
Boru
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