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A Statistical Analysis of America's Decline
Global Manufacturing Share
United States vs. China
(1950-2025)

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
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Deindustrialization by Design: Shift from a production-based economy to a service-based one, hollowing out middle-class jobs and regional economies.
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Financialization of Industry: Prioritizing personal wealth, shareholder value and quarterly profits over long-term national resilience and workforce development.
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Trade Agreements Favoring Outsourcing: Policies like NAFTA and WTO accession for China accelerated the offshoring of manufacturing and weakened domestic labor protections.
Educational System
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Dilution of Academic Standards: Lowering graduation requirements to inflate success metrics while failing to equip students with even minimal real-world skills.
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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.
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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
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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.
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Erosion of Civic Unity: Policies and cultural shifts that undermine shared identity, national pride, and social cohesion.
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Expansion of Dependency Systems: Growth of welfare and entitlement programs that discourage self-reliance and incentivize government dependency.
Cultural & Political Consequences
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Normalization of Dysfunction: Treating systemic failure as inevitable or acceptable, rather than solvable.
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Distrust in Institutions: Public confidence in government, media, and education erodes as outcomes worsen and accountability disappears.
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Rise of Anarchy & Alienation: A generation growing up disconnected from opportunity, identity, and purpose—fueling despair, addiction, and violence.
Top 1 Percent

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%


The Wealth Great Transfer:
How Wealth Concentration Mirrors National Debt
U.S. National Debt vs Wealth Inequality
(1980-2025)

National Debt -
Poor & Middleclass
Money

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.

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

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.