美国仍然是最好的国家吗？

JamesHetfield:

Let me put it to you this way:

我来自东南亚的一个国家，去了HS。该国最好的学生申请来到美国，离开欧洲，澳大利亚等人，全都是才华横溢的学生，以及无法进入美国大学的更好的学生。

These rankings are all bullshit. Ask a poor valedictorian kid anywhere from Vietnam to Nigeria where do they want to go, and the single answer is the United States.

Maybe if you are not ambitious, and want to have a safe and comfortable life, then you can go to all these higher ranked countries. But for those with a raw desire to move ahead in life, the US is only game in town. Just ask me. (Although I have not achieved anything yet!)

新加坡？

另外，如果有人可以为我回答这个问题，那将是非常感谢的。那些国家（例如大学）中最好的学校如何香, national university of singapore, HKUST, peking U, etc. stack up against non-ivy top 20s such as vanderbilt, notre dame, georgetown, rice, etc?

JamesHetfield:

Let me put it to you this way:

我来自东南亚的一个国家，去了HS。该国最好的学生申请来到美国，离开欧洲，澳大利亚等人，全都是才华横溢的学生，以及无法进入美国大学的更好的学生。

These rankings are all bullshit. Ask a poor valedictorian kid anywhere from Vietnam to Nigeria where do they want to go, and the single answer is the United States.

Maybe if you are not ambitious, and want to have a safe and comfortable life, then you can go to all these higher ranked countries. But for those with a raw desire to move ahead in life, the US is only game in town. Just ask me. (Although I have not achieved anything yet!)

这是荒唐的。

have you ever heard of this place called London (aka the financial capital of the world)?

Also as an EM national your only game in town should be your home country as there is infinitely more money to be制成EMSthan in developed markets if you are a local.

[quote=Quaneaser]and the strongest political system out there. /quote]

That was a joke right?

Take a look at Singapore's government.

AICCCIA:

In terms of economic and political stability, as well as general quality of life, they all blow the U.S. out of the water. I will be returning to Singapore or Australia as soon as I can. Anyone who thinks the U.S. is still the best country in the world needs to go traveling and wake up the fuck up.

Singapore has no natural resources; produces no food of its own; has little in the way of energy reserves or any metals.

In some ways, the island looks like a tax haven. That's great, but if 8 billion people who all want to be middle class continue putting pressure on global resources, Singapore可以find itself in trouble as the export walls start going up. From an economic (not cultural) standpoint, you guys really need to take another look at amerger with Malaysia。在过去的45年中，这两个国家已经现代化了很多。我想知道这次是否可以工作，这将使新加坡处于不稳定的资源状况。

我认为新加坡在接下来的六年中会做得很好。也许整整十年。我认为30 - 40年的前景更加可疑。如果新加坡在加拿大，我可能会同意您的看法。

SirTradesaLot:

IP -- What has gotten you on this Malthusian rampage lately? I mean, it's always a good thing to have resources, but seemingly, most of this guy's theories have been proven overly pessimistic many times. What makes you so confident it will be different going forward?

This time we have 10 billion people, global warming, and most of the world's arable land under grain production. At the same time, labor is getting a lot cheaper in the west. That labor also happens to vote in some of the most resource-rich capitalist countries in the world- and Russia has already restricted a lot of resource exports.

Look, the market does have 15-20 year cycles of resources vs. equities. Malthusians- as well as long-term equity bears have always said "But it's different this time!" My argument isn't based on equity returns but rather on the cost of resources vs the cost of labor, which most people seem to think won't go up in the west anytime soon.

If we approach a global price for labor, and if that labor begins to come within an order of the global price of food, it's in workers' (read: voters) best interests to lower the cost of grain at home and raise it abroad, which resource exporting countries have the ability to do via trade policy.

Most of these countries have fairly strong militaries, rendering war an unlikely choice for importers. Net resource importers won't have many alternatives besides conservation; I'm dubious about how effective that will actually be given how much resource prices have gone up. Thus the resource exporters keep the same strategy of making it more difficult to export and the resource importers cannot improve their strategy.

That'nash平衡我正在接它。我并不是说我们一定会到达那里；我是说这是可能的，人们可能会意识到一些事情。