Just a thought: since 1971 the U.S. dollar as the global reserve currency has been draining wealth from every other nation. Americans still get the best cut of the scam, that’s the Cantillon Effect. And guess where desperate people try to escape to?
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“desperate people” is a single-digit % of the immigrant population in the USA. Millions of people have gotten there thanks to NGO support and while it might be framed as escapism from shitty places in search of a better life, that’s just marketing.
As for draining wealth from other countries, their own governments are extractive enough to do serious damage, with or without the banking cartel, and that’s been happening for centuries and will continue until the world is full of benevolent dictators who Bukele their nation.
I won’t begrudge people genuinely escaping poverty if they make it to the US but only if they assimilate into American culture. Almost none of them do though, they bring the cultural values that made the place they escaped from shitty, and attempt to recreate that in America. Even Bitcoin can’t fix that.
Out of curiosity, what are your own roots? Did your ancestors bring european, african, or asian culture to america? Did they assimilate into the culture of the native americans? Or do you actually descend from them?
And there you nailed the point - the native Americans were conquered. And the colonizers built arguably the greatest civilization in known human history, on land that was once untamed, wild, unproductive.
I don’t want civilized America (or Western Europe) now conquered in reverse by savages who bring cultures of rape, violence, and filth.
My ancestors were immigrants at one point, yes - and they had a hand in BUILDING the America that everyone knew, loved, and has desperately tried to get to.
My ancestors brought “American” values to the continent. Not 3rd world customs.