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Ericson2314 on Dec 6, 2020 | parent | context | favorite | on: Diem – A rebrand of Facebook’s Libra

> US has a culture that knows that resisting the change isn't way to stay as #1

Are you kidding? This is the country that avoids the Metric system remember. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Metric_America oops.

obilgic on Dec 6, 2020 [–]

Are you saying that because of It's refusal of metric system, It has lost its #1 spot?

Ericson2314 on Dec 7, 2020 | [–]

No I'm saying that for quite some time, the US has not made the reforms it should have that other countries did.

Perhaps the ratio of exceptionalism to gridlock as the excuse for stasis has changed, but the stasis itself hasn't.

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