If you go back through history the greatest advancements have always come from the richest countries, they just have the resources to do those things. American athletes are bragging about how they’re the best in the world as they compete with people who lack basic equipment and have proper jobs. I remember some Olympic swimmer who had never even been in an Olympic size swimming pool before he got to the event.
America got rich because when the rest of the Allies were fighting the Nazis they sat back and loaned resources, then spent the next 5 decades taking repayments.
Once you have a class of people, who don’t need to work, they will do interesting things. Many scientific advances and exploration was done by nobility and rich, who could afford to do something with their lives, which didn’t directly make money.
It’s easier and less risky to try to become a pro athlete, if you have enough money so you don’t fall hard, if you fail.
However for sports, there’s also huge programs run by states. Socialist countries typically put quite a lot of resources into identifying talent early and then systematically training them. The Soviet Union and later Russia are especially known for this. Many militaries allow soldiers to become full time athletes while being paid as soldiers. This works really well for national prestige.
America got rich because when the rest of the Allies were fighting the Nazis they sat back and loaned resources
America was already rich before WW2 started. During WW2 nothing in the USA was destroyed by the war, whereas Europe was devastated.
Your first part is fair, but your second part is a bit misleading. We sent troops, just not until people were convinced that it was an “us” problem too. People didn’t want to get tangled up in another one of Europes wars. Much like how most of the allies also didn’t get involved until they got threatened too. Except the soviet’s, who had an alliance with them.
It’s not like providing the materials needed to actually survive is nothing. Our entire economy was repurposed around doing so. The repayment was because a massive “European problem” contingent thought a budget neutral requirement would keep us from helping. We worked out a system where we bought long term leases on land, and they used that cash to buy weapons from us. It was a shell game.
We got rich after the war because everyone else was rubble and we still had factories.
If you go back through history the greatest advancements have always come from the richest countries, they just have the resources to do those things. American athletes are bragging about how they’re the best in the world as they compete with people who lack basic equipment and have proper jobs. I remember some Olympic swimmer who had never even been in an Olympic size swimming pool before he got to the event.
America got rich because when the rest of the Allies were fighting the Nazis they sat back and loaned resources, then spent the next 5 decades taking repayments.
Once you have a class of people, who don’t need to work, they will do interesting things. Many scientific advances and exploration was done by nobility and rich, who could afford to do something with their lives, which didn’t directly make money.
It’s easier and less risky to try to become a pro athlete, if you have enough money so you don’t fall hard, if you fail.
However for sports, there’s also huge programs run by states. Socialist countries typically put quite a lot of resources into identifying talent early and then systematically training them. The Soviet Union and later Russia are especially known for this. Many militaries allow soldiers to become full time athletes while being paid as soldiers. This works really well for national prestige.
America was already rich before WW2 started. During WW2 nothing in the USA was destroyed by the war, whereas Europe was devastated.
Your first part is fair, but your second part is a bit misleading. We sent troops, just not until people were convinced that it was an “us” problem too. People didn’t want to get tangled up in another one of Europes wars. Much like how most of the allies also didn’t get involved until they got threatened too. Except the soviet’s, who had an alliance with them.
It’s not like providing the materials needed to actually survive is nothing. Our entire economy was repurposed around doing so. The repayment was because a massive “European problem” contingent thought a budget neutral requirement would keep us from helping. We worked out a system where we bought long term leases on land, and they used that cash to buy weapons from us. It was a shell game.
We got rich after the war because everyone else was rubble and we still had factories.
Literally every young man in America enlisted in that war. Stfu