If you take seriously the blathering of main stream economists saying “the economy’ is doing great” is mostly based on investments in AI. But in the long run all the capitalist economies have not recovered from the economic results of pre-2008 called the Great Recession.
Most investments of capitalists here in Mordor, and to a lesser extent Europe are based on the military or finance capital. Neither produces real wealth. If the economy in the US measured the production of goods and services the statistics would be more grim. In addition, these cross-cultural stats include China, which intends to build communism. Imagine these depressed numbers without China.
Read Michael Roberts in The Next Recession
