In this case I think it's the exceptionally large amount of money that the US spends on "defense".
Trillions of dollars spent and decades of it is incomparable to any other nation.
No, because belonging to the tribe is more important than what the tribe does.
Yellowstone 2028.
IMHO Frank Herbert's prediction in Dune is more apt.
Humanity stagnated due to its dependency on thinking machines, almost to humanities demise leading to the Butlerian Jihad and the Great Convention: thou shalt not make a machine in the likeness of the human mind.
That's what we're facing today: societal cognitive stagnation from outsourcing our reasoning to auto-correct.
That's pretty much Robocop.
Yes, his ass bone is huge.
Use an espresso machine, but keep pressing the button until it's filled the (large) cup all the way up.
Don’t want to piss off your advertisers?
It's just that.
And are missing 90% of the features making them far superior to the installed versions.
SPACE LUPUS
ETFs distribute risk. Any one sub investment failing will not be a problem.
A property investment is "all your eggs in one basket" the risk of poor returns is higher.
Also liquidity, need some cash? Sell a small amount of your ETFs vs sell the entire property.
Guillaume Ateinne.