Why is HN in English and always talking about FAANG?
Why do kids all around the world play with Spiderman?
Asking for "vital" and "21st century" is a paradox, so maybe it's not what you really meant. But the proof of our success is all around if you're willing to actually look.
>Why do kids all around the world play with Spiderman?
So we sell children's stories, in a world where technology makes it possible to copy not just any single story, but pretty much all of humanity's stories since time began onto a tiny little plastic doohickey that you can hang on a keychain. And then anyone in the world can also make up a new story with those same characters, or draw a picture, or whatever...
That's our wealth? Wow. Even if I had stock in that intellectual property, it seems like it never really was property to begin with and that I'm heading for ruin.
Those three examples were a sketch of the picture being missed by the parent comment. We clearly export entertainment on a massive scale, regardless of one's personal judgment of it.
> But the proof of our success is all around if you're willing to actually look.
Get a slice of humble pie.
The proof of American failure is also all around if you're willing to actually look. Urbanism, health, environment, MAGA, Vietnam, Irak, Afghanistan. Easy to cherry pick, turns out many of us who have the luxury of being able to work in the US if they wanted to chose not to do so, maybe with good reasons? "Most successful" is very subjective. "Dominant", yeah, you are.
Why is HN in English and always talking about FAANG?
Why do kids all around the world play with Spiderman?
Asking for "vital" and "21st century" is a paradox, so maybe it's not what you really meant. But the proof of our success is all around if you're willing to actually look.