Also, what lip service, exactly? This is what I mean: Americans don’t understand the immense dividends they have enjoyed from being the defacto symbol of “prog

Also, what lip service, exactly? This is what I mean: Americans don’t understand the immense dividends they have enjoyed from being the defacto symbol of “progress” in the 20th and 21st centuries so far. American solutions were chosen by European customers because they were reliable trading partners with an air of modernity. Homegrown was seen as the antithesis to leapfrogging into the future. People celebrated when McDonald’s came to their country or town. Not anymore.