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Every time I travel to the third world I am reminded just how much privilege Americans enjoy. Everywhere I go there will be someone who speaks decent English. Everyone is happy to take my dollars. Everything is super inexpensive. The entire world bands over backwards to accommodate me. I will watch some tourists from France or Germany struggle to communicate and I just walk up and talk to the same person with a fairly safe assumption that we can stumble through the language barrier.

For now at least, America is the center of the world. Never forget that.

Every time I travel to the third world I am reminded just how much privilege Americans enjoy. Everywhere I go there will be someone who speaks decent English. Everyone is happy to take my dollars. Everything is super inexpensive. The entire world bands over backwards to accommodate me. I will watch some tourists from France or Germany struggle to communicate and I just walk up and talk to the same person with a fairly safe assumption that we can stumble through the language barrier. For now at least, America is the center of the world. Never forget that.

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I'd be willing to bet Jeff Bezos would not agree.

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Income disparity and the presence of the very wealthy are required for a vibrant economy and for a system that allows for innovation and advancement. Nearly every big advancement of the modern era came from some rich guy wasting a lot of money on frivolous research and development because he could; because he did not care about the cost.

Big corporations are just cancer. They stifle advancement and innovation. All they care about it profit and greed.

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Much better said than I could.