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China Is Rapidly Overtaking the United States as the World's Scientific Superpower (futurism.com)

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[–] gandalf_der_12te@discuss.tchncs.de 2 points 2 days ago

The dollar is a piece of paper that people believe in and therefore fictional as well, as much as is all the mathematics that the US financial system is based on. Would you consider them insignificant, too?