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A Statistical Analysis of America's Decline

Global Manufacturing Share
United States vs. China
(1950-2025)

U.S. Verses China Manufacturing Graph

Capitalism Run Amok
The Price of Greed & Power

Over the past 75 years, China has undergone a staggering industrial transformation. In 1950, it was a marginal player, producing just 2% of the world’s goods. Since then, China has followed a steep and sustained upward trajectory to become the undisputed global manufacturing leader, now responsible for over 40% of total output. Yet despite this meteoric rise, China continues to classify itself as a developing nation.
 

Meanwhile, the United States, once arguably the world’s predominant superpower, has experienced a sharp decline. In 1950, the U.S. produced over 40% of the world’s manufactured goods; today, that share has fallen to nearly 10%. Despite this dramatic erosion of industrial dominance, the U.S. still claims the mantle of the world’s premier superpower.​​

Capitalism
The System Isn’t Broken—It's 
Working Exactly as Designed

U.S. Economic & Industrial Policy

  • Deindustrialization by Design: Shift from a production-based economy to a service-based one, hollowing out middle-class jobs and regional economies.

  • Financialization of Industry: Prioritizing personal wealth, shareholder value and quarterly profits over long-term national resilience and workforce development.

  • Trade Agreements Favoring Outsourcing: Policies like NAFTA and WTO accession for China accelerated the offshoring of manufacturing and weakened domestic labor protections.

Educational System

  • Dilution of Academic Standards: Lowering graduation requirements to inflate success metrics while failing to equip students with even minimal real-world skills.

  • Focus on Compliance Over Competence: Emphasis on standardized testing and bureaucratic benchmarks, and compliance rather than critical thinking, open expression of ideas, creativity, STEM & vocational training.

  • Disconnect from Industry Needs: Schools producing graduates unprepared for modern technical or skilled labor roles, while industries import foreign talent, and cheap labor.

 

Social & Labor Policy

  • Mass Immigration Without Integration: Importing low-cost labor without investing in assimilation, driving up the cost of housing, medical, general cost living & taxes, with a reduction of services, while simultaneously driving down wages, and fragmenting communities.

  • Erosion of Civic Unity: Policies and cultural shifts that undermine shared identity, national pride, and social cohesion.

  • Expansion of Dependency Systems: Growth of welfare and entitlement programs that discourage self-reliance and incentivize government dependency.

Cultural & Political Consequences

  • Normalization of Dysfunction: Treating systemic failure as inevitable or acceptable, rather than solvable.

  • Distrust in Institutions: Public confidence in government, media, and education erodes as outcomes worsen and accountability disappears.

  • Rise of Anarchy & Alienation: A generation growing up disconnected from opportunity, identity, and purpose—fueling despair, addiction, and violence.

Top 1 Percent

Kings Crown

U.S. Stock Market Ownership (Q3 2023)

Group Share of Stock Market Wealth

Top 10% own 93% of all stocks

Middle 40% own 6% 

Bottom 50% own 1% 

Stock Wealth Graph
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The Wealth Great Transfer:
How Wealth Concentration Mirrors National Debt

U.S. National Debt vs Wealth Inequality
(1980-2025)

NATIONAL DEBT GRAPH
National Debt -
Poor & Middleclass
Money
The wealthy image

What the Graph Reveals

National Debt:

Climbs from $0.9 trillion in 1980 to a projected $38.5 trillion in 2025.

Top 10% Wealth Share:

Rises from 60% in 1980 to 81% in 2025, showing steady increase and concentration of wealth. 

Bottom 90% Wealth Share:

Falls from 40% to 19%, reflecting the erosion of the middle working-class financial power. 

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No, greed is not good.
It is inherently selfish, corrosive, and destructive to the collective well-being of society.

Blog Picture Money

Greed vs. the Greater Good

Greed is not ambition. It’s not innovation. It’s the pursuit of self-interest at the expense of others. It corrodes trust, undermines institutions, and hollows out communities. When profit and personal power become paramount, the nation suffers.

If we want to engineer a better America, we must reject greed as a virtue and replace it with values that build, not extract. That means investing in education, infrastructure, and people. It means designing systems that reward contribution, not exploitation.

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