Sergarr, everything about what you wrote is wrong.
What, the fact that USA is #1 country is wrong? Why, then show me who's better than USA at technology? Or, maybe you know a country whose economy is better than USA's? I desire to know who it is!
Communist countries sometime enjoyed high standard of living.
Cuba is a developped country according to standard of living index, and that's despite the US's embargo. Cuba is communism's best case scenario, with cold war ear-tech... which also showcase the issue with communism : the centralized everything tend to create totalitarian states.
If Cuba is communism's best-case scenario, then it's a failed ideology, because even now, there are
still people who run away from Cuba, but there are no people who want to run
into Cuba. It's not a good sign when people are escaping your country and you have to keep them there by force.
The US didn't rise to the top because they were the best at everything.
The US domination is a product of the XXem century. In WW1, the US gained a inconceivable amount of money selling weapon and supplies to the allies. At the end of the war, the allies were seriously indebted to the US, and they could get what they wanted.
At the end of WW2, the US were rich beyond imagination, had taken all the best German scientist (which were the best in the world) and the bast among them even migrated before the war because an huge number of the History's best scientist were German jews, (Von Neumann, Einstein, Weyl, Max Born...). The Dollars became the world's reserve currency and it became the leader of a group that included every richest nation on earth.
In addition to that the country have a low population compared to his size, and thus huge natural resources, and a very defensible position.
Finally it defend big business's interest so have the support of industrialist world-wide, and they tend to be richer than the oppressed masses.
So, what you're saying is that they
are the best at everything. If you look at Europe as a whole, it has an even better situation - yet, it is Europe that ended up in pointless bloody wars with itself. Why is it that United States, despite explicitly consisting of 50 semi-sovereign states, has only gone to war with itself once, in American Civil War? It's because Americans - the ones that created the country - were smart enough to produce absolutely the
best government system in the world, that kept vastly different people who immigrated there all united and devoted to America as a whole!
I mean, it's easy to believe that they were just
given this huge wealth, if you treat wars like natural disasters that "just happen". But if you see wars as a failures of the societies in question to resolve their problems peacefully, then USA has absolutely earned it, by nearly-religiously maintaining their political system throughout hundreds of years, while Europeans continued to fuck around with stupid shit like "monarchy", "communism", "fascism" and "communism", constantly forgetting that they're all a part of the single cultural block and instead preferring to focus on differences between each other.
However, the US's own population's living condition are rather poor : Access and the quality of education and health-care is low for a developed nation. Infant mortality is high, worker's right are very low compared to any other industrialized nations, Median wage is low, especially compared to average wage, public services such as public transport are all but non-existent, incarceration rate is the highest in the world, democracy is almost non existent, policing is appealingly violent,...
If you take Europe as a whole, and not just the "UK, Germany, France" triangle, together with Eastern Europe, you would see that it's pretty much the same, only probably even worse. USA is a union of 50 semi-sovereign states across the entire continent, it's only natural that there would be quite a few semi-failed ones within it.
But you know what? That didn't prevent USA from being #1, at all, as well as powering the economical, technological and social growth of the entire world. It's a part of the whole "left vs right" trade-off, where either you spend wealth now to make yourself feel better, or you put it into capital to make more wealth later, for future generations to come. And USA has clearly chosen the latter one, which is, well, the reason why they're supreme now.
And, in a sense, USA is the world's #1 martyr, sacrificing the well-being of its own citizens now in order to increase the well-being of
all citizens in the world in the future. They do with their capitalism what communism only proclaimed to do. I assume you're American, so you should feel proud of your country being so devoted to making the whole world a better place ;_;
Fortunately, the better parts of capitalistic countries have been engaged with doing wealth rebalancing thing for quite a while now (if only to suppress the communist movements), so it should not be that hard to implement them (IIRC Finland is about to test the basic income program), at least for countries not stuck with pure evil pro-Putinist pro-corporatist fundamental-religious right-wing warmongers, i.e. most Western countries, with the exception of USA.
pure evil pro-Putinist pro-corporatist fundamental-religious right-wing warmongers
Jesus H. Christ, what happened to you, Sergarr? Such amount of moralizing would make both Bush Jr. and Reagan sick! 
P.S. To me, the words "pure evil pro-Putinist pro-corporatist fundamental-religious right-wing warmongers" look just as bombastic as "fully automated luxury gay space communism"
Hey, the only thing I'm doing is taking all that Western mainstream and slightly-less-mainstream-but-still-pro-liberal media has said in election season at face value. I'm not just inventing it from thin air, you know, I'm only repeating what the other people, who've proclaimed themselves the ultimate arbiters of goodness/liberalism and living avatars of truth/liberty, have said, so if you have problems with them, it's them and their self-asserted values that you need to question.
pure evil pro-Putinist pro-corporatist fundamental-religious right-wing warmongers
Trump hasn't actually done anything yet that would label him as a warmonger.
I'm talking about Republicans as a whole, you doof. They've done plenty of things that would label them as warmongers.
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