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I mean, realizing how good the United States is relative to many other countries and especially adversaries does help put things into perspective. Things could be better but at least we have the hope to make things better. Many people don't have that.
Until the crushing realization that much of our relative advantage and comfort is due to the outright exploitation of much of the disadvantaged.
"Peaceful, orderly, democratic transition of power": One of our top exports.
If it also makes you feel better, most countries in the world continue to exploit their, and other countries populations. In that aspect, the US exploits fewer than many other countries.
Extremely doubtful, I've seen what we're used to paying for wages. Every company you've ever interacted with has a foreign team that they're paying $2 a day for, whether that be for tech support, customer support, materials gathering/construction, or shipping.