There is so much wrong with this comment that I don&#x27;t even know where to start.<p>First, most of the benefits you describe (e.g., ample vegetarian food in NYC, very little in Singapore) are not paid for with taxes or provided by the government. The fact that the US govt happens to be the strongest bandit in a region where hookups are easy is not a justification for giving them profits earned by manufacturing goods in Bangladesh and selling them in Malaysia.<p>Second, if growing up&#x2F;being born under the US&#x2F;German social order were actually important, then there is a very easy way to measure it. Take people born outside this order but give them permission to work in global markets and compare their income to natives. Indian and Chinese immigrants tend to outperform Americans, which pretty much solidly refutes this claim.<p>Third, you seem to be conflating the purchase of services with equity investments. All your critiques of freeloading should apply equally if I build V1 of my software on AWS but switch to Softlayer for V2.