confused face/?- Why is the USA thought of so highly for working when it clearly is not the best place to be?

? and hands up: The way there were leaders In the oil industry, like Rockefeller, were there also leaders in the cotton industry?

? America is only the place it is today because of how dirty it played to get their. Slavery, child labor, inflation, what did America do the civil way, if anything at all?

hands up- (thankfully slavery was abolished, and this isn't to take away from that) When slavery was abolished, it was one of the biggest economic systems happening in the world at that moment, and the economy started to go downhill after that because there was no replacement. They took something away but never put something else in place.

? This reminds me of when people use "its just the way the world is" as an excuse for something bad. But if its something bad, why is the world still that way? We live in a capitalist society which is not benefitting the majority of the world, so why is it still that way?

! "Economy" is one big game, and if you want to win you have to play by some dirty rules even if you don't agree with them.

(! and hands emoji) This is where you find the old and bad guys (or good and bad companies) of economics. There are the ones who would literally make the price so absurd (like it is) for their own monetary gain, but in the process practically kill many people; and there are the ones who raise it like a good business man would, but either to a manageable price or make it covered by insurance. Hence not making them AS much money, but still a profit. Reminds me of identifying robber barons vs. captains of the industries. But in my opinion every businessman is a robber baron in some way.