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Originally Posted by Lune
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We were a second-rate backwater through the early 1900's, hardly even matching Great Britain and absolutely not the top of the world.
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you are completely failing to understand that I am arguing for the derivative.
For example, Rome reached its greatest area under Trajan but the Imperial system was already sowing the seeds of its destruction.
Also America by 1922 was already passing Great Britain, e.g. the Washington Naval Treaty
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Originally Posted by Lune
I mean you're basically advocating for people like Andrew Carnegie to wield considerable power and influence again. That's basically what free market capitalism is. The people with the capital wield the economic power (and the political power too unless specific protections are in place, as we're seeing now).
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Andrew Carnegie can't create 14 trillion dollars out of thin air for himself. Also, have you heard of the TTIP? Your position that the wealthy have more influence in a free market economy than in a socialist one is flat out ridiculous.