This country tries to be bigger than it is. On the flip side of the same coin it’s falsely perceived from the outside as bigger than it is. As if to be some sort of alt America. I think California alone is bigger or at least comparable to the entire country across many metrics. There is simply no amount of forcing or wishing or hoping some how this country can manifest the economic and industrial output to magically increase by orders of magnitude. Some times I wish everyone would get real about all this and treat it as it is. A small nation.
A small nation sitting on enormous amounts of natural resources. It’s in the best interest of global corporations to keep our economy under a certain level … any higher and our resources become expensive for them. They don’t see our country filled with people … they see our country filled with natural wealth that’s ready to be extracted as cheaply as possible.
Canada and California both have 40 million people, but California’s economic output is nearly twice that of Canada’s. An order of magnitude growth is unlikely, but a doubling of our economic output is well within the realm of possibility.
This country tries to be bigger than it is. On the flip side of the same coin it’s falsely perceived from the outside as bigger than it is. As if to be some sort of alt America. I think California alone is bigger or at least comparable to the entire country across many metrics. There is simply no amount of forcing or wishing or hoping some how this country can manifest the economic and industrial output to magically increase by orders of magnitude. Some times I wish everyone would get real about all this and treat it as it is. A small nation.
A small nation sitting on enormous amounts of natural resources. It’s in the best interest of global corporations to keep our economy under a certain level … any higher and our resources become expensive for them. They don’t see our country filled with people … they see our country filled with natural wealth that’s ready to be extracted as cheaply as possible.
Canada and California both have 40 million people, but California’s economic output is nearly twice that of Canada’s. An order of magnitude growth is unlikely, but a doubling of our economic output is well within the realm of possibility.
We don’t have the culture for it, though.