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Is America a well oiled machine or is it a series of mouse traps and no one really understands why it's still around? (lemmy.world)

submitted 18 hours ago by Clinicallydepressedpoochie@lemmy.world to c/AskUSA

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[–] limer@lemmy.dbzer0.com 15 points 17 hours ago

Both. Most people depend on literally thousands of interactions per day to survive: to eat, to have medicine,to travel, etc

These interactions depend on countless people around the world to do things no person fully understands.

This applies to most nations.

And it means most people are caught up in a small fragment of a system so mind boggling complex that will exploit them without anyone fully comprehending the why and how.

Can’t escape things one can’t understand