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givinguflac 53 days ago | parent | context | favorite | on: Norway should buy OpenAI

|Or even the USA historically. Pre 1900s, America was a country of continual economic crises, and fractured politics.

Have you read about the US post-1900? I think you can leave off pre 1900s…

true_religion 52 days ago [–]

Yes but pre 1900s there were vastly more resources.

The USA at some point had the lions share of the world’s easily exploitable oil.

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