A brief look at the accumulation of power and wealth in the US and its impact on global systems.

The top 1% accumulate more than 50% of the wealth generated per decade. Global resource capture by the 1% has already occurred. The 99% are not the people running the world, they are the ones just living in it.

As of now the majority of the top 1% live in the US, which means it is the US that is accumulating the majority of the wealth generated around the world. With the rest of the world working off the scraps that are left over after the US takes its 33-40% share of wealth generated.

China remains the country with the second highest population of the top 1% of high income individuals, holding strong its position as the second most powerful nation in the world. The fact that China appears to be so far behind the US militarily, technologically at times, and in terms of future growth potential, doesn't just show that China is behind the US, but gives us an idea of how far behind the US the rest of the world must be, that is still even further behind China.

The US GDP did not slow down as expected, but is showing signs of stronger resilience and future growth than what the market had predicted. There is a real possibility that the US GDP will continue to grow at rates of 2% and higher every year till the end of the century without issue, thus making it impossible for any other nation state to keep up around the world. In very recent history this trend can be seen in how the US economy has completely surpassed the economy of the EU in a generation when 20-30 years ago the gap was small enough that Europe and the US could be categorized in the same grouping of big players from a third world perspective.

The continuing resilience of the US increases the likelihood of the world remaining split into independent nation states rather than larger unions forming over time across the world. The primary reason for this being that the US has no need for expansion geographically due to its economic hegemony in the future, and other nation states not being likely to wish to merge together without successful examples to follow. People accept change either when they have no other choice left or when they know better things will come from the change.

As the top 1% primarily live in the west and most frequently immigrate to the west, along with the previously mentioned fact are accumulating the majority of wealth generated across the world, it is to be expected that in the future wealth will continue to accumulate in North America, with the primary growing economies of the future being those who are most closely allied to the US culturally, economically, and geopolitically. What this means is the continuing accumulation of global wealth in the direction of westernized economies. This would mean the continuing accumulation of resources in Europe, Japan, and South Korea in the future, or these nation states remaining stagnant instead of collapsing as expected by all metrics during a collapse phase. For example - Pakistan surviving on the edge for the decades it was a US ally in Asia.

With the US considered the center of the world in our scenario, the rest of the world's nation states are converted into a pipeline to support the ever growing needs of the US. With the next 2% growth being harder to acquire than the previous 2% in a compounding economic growth system, it is a given that the US requires an ever expanding base of more developed nation states providing it with additional resources ( research, high skill immigrants, investment funds, etc) to maintain an ever heavier top of the pyramid. Due to this factor, the US requires new partners to be added to its list of "allies" every few years. The US is stuck is a position to ever increasing its stake in more and more nation states across the world, requiring the number of middle income nation states to increase year on year.

It is due to the above mentioned needs of the US that the number of middle income nation states that are growing at fast rates keeps increasing over time. The US generally doesn't have to do anything to balance out the competition in the majority of such cases, as most of these fast growing societies peak long before reaching economic levels anywhere close to the US. The American way is to simply help the other nation states grow to their maximum potential without being an active threat to the US, and then acquiring talent from these nation states as they stagnate, and moving on to trading with other nation states, repeating the process.

This above explained geopolitical setup guarantees that the global economy will always be growing positively as long as the US is in power. It also guarantees that in the long run the further from the US a nation state is, the more poorly it will perform economically, all else being equal.

Culturally, US hegemony guarantees further liberalization of the global world order. We can expect the global growth of Christianity and atheism winning out, and the influences of US culture and ideals becoming even more ingrained in the global psyche than that of Rome or The British Empire. This strength of the US cultural imprint on the world results in China losing the culture war and CCP attempts to keep China culturally Chinese. In this manner, China losing the economic and culture war against the US guarantees that no power greater than China would emerge that would choose to challenge US status as number 1 world power.

Taking into account that the 1% run the world, the US population is greater than 1%, the US is the most powerful nation state now and in the near future, and that humanity is going through a population collapse period, and animals during the collapse phase can have their populations go as low as 1%, it is safe to declare that the US population share of the world is going to begin climbing in another generation. Going as high as 10% and beyond. This combined with the economic and technological dominance of the US would ensure total global dominance of humanity by the US. This conclusion is based on the fact that the UK controlled around a quarter of the world while being around 2.5% of the world population.

Conclusion:

American influence will continue to spread across the world. Just as the world at one point westernized, in this era the world is going to Americanize. America will become a global hegemon before the end of the 22nd century.

I will see you all in 3-7 days with my next post. Live well and prosper.

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