'Merica fuck yeah! can't even visit the dentist without thousands!!! Inscentive, fuck yeah - That's all they teach us we're fuckin woorth!
-.- Senior year of highschool, Freakonomics was the book my teacher had us read and it was a collab between some psychologist and an entrepreneur. The primary lesson was about the economy in the USA, and I'll never forget, the book said we're completely driven by incentive and without it, you don't get opportunity, you don't get business, you don't get status.. unless you scheme your way into overtaking an already successful and wealthy individual/company/etc. the chances of your spot in the economic hierarchy of the USA will remain virtually insignificant.
Look up how Hawaii became a state. Business men from our country went down there and acted like we wanted business, then we probably pillaged and killed them into submission, then the US annexed them.