Look at the American people and tell me you see the raw material for a super power. Disinterested in learning or work, the only thing "super" is the growing size of the American waistline.
And then to top it off, they all (even the 60% who don't work) think that they deserve even more than they have and that somehow somebody is robbing them of what's rightfully theirs.
Doesn't really matter, global energy has peaked, and fast breeders, fusion, are certainty no guarantee to save humanity in the long run, and almost certainty won't be scaled up for the rescue (limits to growth) in the short run (next 10 to 30 years)
There is an almost 1 to 1 correlation of energy usage per capita to GDP/real wages... and purchasing power...
The world is now an ever shrinking Negative Sum game... (less than zero sum)
So as long as US can continue to leverage its military to enforce its dollar and coerce vassals to be its proxy and do its bidding... it can hold out while the world as a whole continues to contract... what the US is doing now in the era of eternal contraction is basically cannibalizing its own vassals in order to prop up the eCONomy
Some members on here keep saying that China has 4x the US population and therefore when fully developed should be 4X the GDP of US... they don't realize the US only has its GDP because it essentially colonized the entire world.... (petrodollar rent system) there aren't another 4 more fresh planet earths worth of energy and resources for China to have the room to grow to 4X that of the GDP of US...
And no, solar panels are not going to save the day
