That would require Apple, Google, Microsoft, Tesla, SpaceEx, Meta, HP, Amazon, FedEx, United, General Electric, Ford, Adobe, Universal, McDonalds, Verizon, Raytheon, Boeing, Northfield Grumman, Pfizer, Glaxo, Aetna, Wall Street, Boston Robotics, MIT, Stanford, Archer Daniel Midlnd, Exxon, IBM, Dow, Proctor, ATT, Twitter, GM, etc. just to roll over and die. And no new things were invented like batteries, nanotechnology, new entertainment, etc. And our thousands of labs and universities faded to ignorance instead of brilliance. Way more than that…trillions and trillions in capital disappeared without doing anything.

No, relative to China and EU, we’ve just begun our history. We’re a child. But it’s OK, because we ARE the Chinese and Africans and the Europeans and the Indians, Japanese etc. The toughest, best and brightest have been welcomed here for 150 years and see what we already built? You ain’t seen nothing yet.

Finally, it’s OK to not be number one in money, if you are number one in freedom and quality of life and that is leaning toward EU at the moment, but definitely not China. But we still have a lot of European immigrants so who knows what the story is and what the Age of AI, Automation, and Space will bring. Maybe Star Trek. Maybe Blade Runner. Maybe Soylent Green. Maybe extinction. You can’t predict at this point what will happen.