Topic: Is the British Empire really that impressive?
Mr. Bloody Lemonade !0JqexkOGBc started this discussion 4 weeks ago #137,510
At the height of the British Empire, the largest empire in the history of the world, their GDP as a percentage of world GDP was 25%. So basically what the United States is right now.
Anonymous B joined in and replied with this 4 weeks ago, 8 minutes later[^] [v] #1,456,423
What country did better?
Mr. Bloody Lemonade !0JqexkOGBc joined in and replied with this 4 weeks ago, 7 minutes later, 15 minutes after the original post[^] [v] #1,456,427
@previous (B)
In 1960, the United States was 40% of the world economy, which is more than the British Empire achieved.
In 1960, the United States was 40% of the world economy, which is more than the British Empire achieved.
Mr. Bloody Lemonade !0JqexkOGBc double-posted this 4 weeks ago, 3 minutes later, 19 minutes after the original post[^] [v] #1,456,428
You also have to keep in mind, that in 1960 the United States had about 6% of the world’s population, but they had 40% of the world’s GDP. When the British Empire was at its height they had 25% of the world’s population. So the United States today with 25% of the world’s GDP and 4% of the world’s population is still more economically productive on a per person level relative to the rest of the world than the British Empire was even though the US has been in relative decline for decades (not absolute decline however).
Mr. Bloody Lemonade !0JqexkOGBc triple-posted this 4 weeks ago, 4 minutes later, 23 minutes after the original post[^] [v] #1,456,430
The United States was so powerful economically after World War Two, that the "developed countries" were basically just countries allied with the United States. Japan was rebuilt with American money. That’s why they’re developed today even though all their cities were demolish / burned. We were so powerful that we actually determined which nations would be successful.
Mr. Bloody Lemonade !0JqexkOGBc quadruple-posted this 4 weeks ago, 2 minutes later, 26 minutes after the original post[^] [v] #1,456,431
Then we got greedy and realized we could pay Chinese people lower salaries to manufacture everything we want to buy than we could pay American workers so we deindustrialized and now we have a whole rust belt of abandoned factories but we have the strongest military so it doesn’t matter even though how are we supposed to fight a war if we can’t make anything? Don’t know, don’t care, we don’t do mass mobilization ground wars anymore.
Mr. Bloody Lemonade !0JqexkOGBc quintuple-posted this 4 weeks ago, 1 minute later, 28 minutes after the original post[^] [v] #1,456,432
So now China and the US are the two biggest economies and nobody comes close. People will say Japan or Germany or the UK are in the top nth position, to make them sound more impressive, but if you say Germany is the third largest economy, that makes it sound like it’s close, but it’s not close.Anonymous D joined in and replied with this 4 weeks ago, 15 hours later, 15 hours after the original post[^] [v] #1,456,548
I think this pissed Erik off.
Oatmeal Fucker !BYUc1TwJMU joined in and replied with this 3 weeks ago, 1 day later, 1 day after the original post[^] [v] #1,456,682
Guys did you know that after all of Europe and Asia and Northern Africa bombed fuck out of each other until there was nothing left, America was really rich in comparison?
Mr. Bloody Lemonade joined in and replied with this 3 weeks ago, 17 minutes later, 1 day after the original post[^] [v] #1,456,689
@1,456,430 (Mr. Bloody Lemonade !0JqexkOGBc)
The United States was so powerful economically after World War Two, that the "developed countries" were basically just countries allied with the United States. Japan was rebuilt with American money. That’s why they’re developed today even though all their cities were demolish / burned. We were so powerful that we actually determined which nations would be successful. Then we got greedy and realized we could pay Chinese people lower salaries to manufacture everything we want to buy than we could pay American workers so we deindustrialized and now we have a whole rust belt of abandoned factories but we have the strongest military so it doesn’t matter even though how are we supposed to fight a war if we can’t make anything? Don’t know, don’t care, we don’t do mass mobilization ground wars anymore. So now China and the US are the two biggest economies and nobody comes close. People will say Japan or Germany or the UK are in the top nth position, to make them sound more impressive, but if you say Germany is the third largest economy, that makes it sound like it’s close, but it’s not close.
The United States was so powerful economically after World War Two, that the "developed countries" were basically just countries allied with the United States. Japan was rebuilt with American money. That’s why they’re developed today even though all their cities were demolish / burned. We were so powerful that we actually determined which nations would be successful. Then we got greedy and realized we could pay Chinese people lower salaries to manufacture everything we want to buy than we could pay American workers so we deindustrialized and now we have a whole rust belt of abandoned factories but we have the strongest military so it doesn’t matter even though how are we supposed to fight a war if we can’t make anything? Don’t know, don’t care, we don’t do mass mobilization ground wars anymore. So now China and the US are the two biggest economies and nobody comes close. People will say Japan or Germany or the UK are in the top nth position, to make them sound more impressive, but if you say Germany is the third largest economy, that makes it sound like it’s close, but it’s not close.
Anonymous G joined in and replied with this 3 weeks ago, 1 day later, 2 days after the original post[^] [v] #1,457,011
It WAS far reaching……