Right now, everyone is talking about the US kill zone, discussing a very superficial topic, but I want to share something different with everyone:

Regarding the US kill line, it has never been solely targeted at a specific social class; instead, it is determined by the country's system and core positioning.

Simply put:

The US kill line has always been designed around "forcing you to consume" from start to finish.

This is not just a social atmosphere but a system design tailored for a consumer nation.

In the positioning of a consumer country, each citizen's core role is essentially a "consumption tool." Not consuming, not spending money, is fundamentally equivalent to "resisting taxes," and naturally, this system will keep an eye on you.

Once you understand this core, looking at the US kill line makes perfect sense.

Why is the US billing culture chaotic, often leading to unexpected expenses? Because vague bills turn consumption into a blind box, forcing you to spend passively;

Why are electricity bills in some US regions shared rather than independently billed? Because it prevents you from developing frugal habits and forces everyone to use more electricity and spend more;

Why is the US's culture of maintaining face pushed to the extreme? Because maintaining face means you must consume; there is no way out;

Why are installment payments so developed in US financial institutions? Because they rely on borrowing to stimulate early consumption, even overdrawing your future spending power.

Why does sleeping in a car in the US violate vagrancy laws? To prevent low-cost survival, forcing you to rent and pay for housing;

Why is even growing vegetables and drying clothes in your own yard not allowed? Because if you grow your own vegetables, you don't need to buy groceries, breaking the consumption chain, and naturally, restrictions follow.

Why do Americans generally have poor math skills? Simply put, it’s due to "joyful education"—deliberate guidance that makes it hard for you to calculate bills or interest rates, leading you to spend money blindly.

Oh, and that exorbitant tuition fee that suffocates people. Even if you’re lucky enough to master math, what does it matter if you can calculate these bills?

High student loans have already tied you down in this system. Even if you see through the tricks, you have no strength left to resist.

Ultimately, the US kill line model is the ultimate form of capitalism consumerism:

Unless you can achieve a cross-class leap in a short period and become a top-tier billionaire, no matter how hard you work to improve your social class, all the surplus value you create will eventually be gradually harvested by this consumption system.

This is not accidental but an inevitable result of the US national system design—everything is aimed at serving the "consumption" core.

Correspondingly, if you look at the US from the perspective of "nation positioning," it also has another core identity: the Financial Nation.

This means that all domestic industries and services ultimately serve the financial market.

So you'll find that whether it’s the middle class with some savings or the wealthy, their wealth is almost entirely tied to the stock market.

Elon Musk becoming the world’s richest person is not because of deep industrial development but because of valuation bubbles and wealth creation games in the financial markets; US pension funds are firmly linked to US stocks, even newborns are required to open stock accounts; the US stock system encourages buybacks and discourages dividends, essentially to boost market value and strengthen the financial system.

Therefore, when observing all phenomena in the US, one cannot just look at the surface:

The increasing proportion of consumption in GDP, the growing strength of the US stock market, are all driven by the dual positioning of "consumer nation + financial nation." All rules, systems, and even social culture are designed to serve these two core identities.

And the so-called kill line that everyone discusses is merely an accessory under this system.

In fact, not only the US, but from the perspective of "nation positioning determines operational logic," many issues in our own country can also be understood clearly.

Our core positioning is an industrial country + an export country. For a long time, domestic over-consumption was not encouraged; instead, surplus value was absorbed through real estate to accumulate capital for industrial development. Many chaos in real estate are essentially about accumulating primitive capital for industrial growth;

Correspondingly, short holidays, 996 work schedules, export tax rebates, and other policies are actually aimed at making our export products more competitive and creating manufacturing advantages for export countries.

These seemingly unrelated phenomena all stem from differences in our national system design and core positioning.

Finally, I’ll say again:

All the social chaos, livelihood pain points, and confusing operational rules we see are ultimately rooted in one thing:

The self-positioning under the top-level tax system design of the country.