I would say it is easy being a superpower when you have $1 trillion a year for the military. After all, many of those who support the military-industrial-congressional complex are happy that the U.S. has so many enemies. It "justifies" the $1 trillion a year for the military.

"It's not easy being a superpower.."

But it's a lot easier than living in a country that is a victim of US imperialism. Try living in Haiti under a US imposed death squad government under murderous UN occupation where the staple food has become cookies made of mud mixed with lard.

“It's not easy being a superpower.. I can just hear this from the neo-cons.”

The liberals in power are just as guilty as the neo-cons of carrying out the policies of US imperialist exploitation, terror, and murder. Their excuses are just new versions of the racist and imperialist "white man's burden".

"any guesses why?"

Five reasons. Corporate profit from cheap labor. Corporate profit from cheap resources. Corporate profit from control of markets. Corporate profit from war. And bank profits from loans at loan-shark rates.

It's a society that requires lawyers. The higher paid ones work for corporations, it is a mechanism that maintains legalities that are contrary to justice. But there is one problem, you can't trust most types of societies if they didn't have them.

Governments always allow wealth, because they can't exist without wealth. Ironically this could be arguements for marxism vs. anarchism, and back. We don't live in an easy world to figure out.