No , you ' ve lost that status with Vietnam and realistically never should have had it . <| sep |> It can be argued that competition would create faster advancement than information sharing . Not really . One of the stifling aspects of the early industrial revolution was the fact that many advances were made and the market was prevented from using them in their competition because of the patents protecting the creator . The argument is that nobody would innovate if you didn ' t stand to profit which in a capitalist system is somewhat true . Its also true though that the by product of ensuring profit for the inventor is to stifle short term competition through limiting the sharing of information . Any world where there ' s no Russia , China , or America fighting I imagine is probably post capitalist .