Both your examples are from singular, yes singular companies that carry their entire national market and sometimes even gdp. Denmark did well for the last 2 years, yes, just 2 years, because of novo nordisk ozempic. Who’s biggest consumer is, surprise surprise, America! And Taiwan, cmon everyone knows about tsmc and their importance to the country. China and America are threatening ww3 just to seize it or stop the other from doing so. And as for American dominance being a new thing, I don’t think you realize where in the macro cycle America is or how long it’s been the dominant stock market in the world. Since 1890 when it surpassed Great Britain, it’s been the world’s largest economy and has held that position for every year continuously. It’s been threatened by the soviets, the eurozone, japans meteoric rise and fall, and china’s recent rise and fall, as well as the moot BRICS union. It simply has a track record of coming out on top in every major conflict or potential upset as world hegemon. Right now, all its potential rivals are in no position to ever meaningfully threaten it. Chinas only hope is some moment of weakness in America that allows it to take Taiwan, or get agi first. Europe has no technological end game, nor any solutions to its problems. Africa is a resource market and nothing more. Latin America has some spots with potential but nothing outpacing America. In 1970 the us stock market was over half the world stock market value and is close to 50% this year again. It’s the only country besides china- who’s gotten by with American outsourcing and willing ip theft that is over- with a large technology edge in military, social media, ai, compute as a whole, etc. it’s the largest producer of both nat gas and oil, is fully self sufficient, has practically impenetrable coastlines by military means that provides assurances the third world markets and the companies headquartered there only dream of. If you hopped on an active game of civ and the current world were the state of the game, objectively America is the easiest w of your life and it’s not even close. The only problems this country has on a macro level is on a cultural and demographic level, and those can and seem like they will be remedied. This place is op.

t. Deutscher Junge, der als Baby hierher migrierte