Even with Covid killing millions now around the world (far beyond what you see in numbers on TV) because the CDC says even in the U.S. the numbers getting Covid every day even here in the U.S. are now around 1 million new cases a day not 150,000 like you hear about on TV.
America is likely the most financially successful country on earth right now (even during Covid). We are a model of how to survive all this in many ways (even though under Trump over 600,000 were tested and died. Even Trump did some good in that he created the opportunity of having vaccinations for everyone in the U.S. and by that helped Europe and some of the rest of the world get vaccinated too.
So, if you look at the world right now, as a large country less people per capita are dying of Covid in the U.S. than likely in almost any other large country on earth right now. Even China is clueless about how to stop the Delta Variant as well as Australia and Israel at this point. It's not that we are stopping it completely but at least we have the OPPORTUNITY to get vaccinated and not die which isn't possible in many other countries at this point.
How does opportunity work here in the U.S.? In most other countries people are held back from succeeding. Even in Europe the school systems separate children by grades so unless you are in the top 10% of your classes in Europe you will NEVER be a doctor, a lawyer, or a high governmental official or go very far in life.
So, even on an educational level here in the U.S. there is opportunity for anyone willing to work to be educated and to better themselves no matter their original grade point average in public schools.
In other words, even if you drop out of school at any point you can still go to a junior college or community college (a two year public college) and finish your Freshman and sophomore year in college and then transfer up for a 4 year degree.
And even if you don't want to go to school even with a grade school education a person can start a business at any point here in the U.S. as a hot dog vendor or a shop or even work out of their garage at first and build a business like Steve Jobs did with his friend Steve Wozniak and build Apple Computers for example.
It isn't working 8 hours a day from age 18 to 65 that makes people successful here in the U.S. it is ideas that they are willing to work for to manifest in their lives.
When I started working at a newspaper route that I delivered on my bicycle at age 10 here in the U.S. in California I would have never believed it was the start of me wanting to own my own business. Culturally, in some ways I had help because my father, my Grandfather and my uncle all had owned businesses before me. So, this was a part of a long family tradition of owning our own businesses that I can trace back to my Great Grandfather who was a Captain in the Northern Army out of Kansas in the Civil War from 1860 to 1865. By the 1870s he had started buying medicines from local native American Tribes and started selling them to people which became a drug store so people could stay more healthy and he kept this drug store until he retired in 1925 and then he continued to live until the early 1940s even though he was born in the 1840s.
So, owning businesses you see is a family tradition from at the very least my great grandfather down to the present.
The opportunity to start your own business here in America likely is the single most amazing thing about living in the U.S. combined with the fact that you can be educated at literally any age through community colleges and universities even if you are in your 90s or 100s if you wish.
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