..it is going for what you think you lost that you seek to recoup without realising that by doing so you end up compromising your future you can't see.
..like some rich guy giving a uni student $50k free money to trade stocks on the desk for 3 years, putting his degree/ career aspirations on hold. The shortsighted money you see today that could change you and where you end up doing.
When historians look back, the strangest fact of the downfall of the American empire will be that we used our waning power into bullying countries to let us take back 2% profit margin underwear manufacturing instead of spending our time educating our citizens to get into the 50% profit margin tech industries that *we currently dominate*. Will make zero sense to anyone in the year 2525.
