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This is because you don't realise how bad life is elsewhere. You have a good home with running water and heating. That alone is something hundreds of millions can't even dream of. Access to fresh drinking water alone puts you, as an American, way above many people.
American population is rich as fuck compared to the rest of the world.
This kind of "be grateful for what you have" thought process is reductive, and only benefits the elite, corporations, and oligarchs.
If everyone thought that way we wouldn't have labor laws or regulations. Every worker would be a happy peasant, living in abject poverty and squalor.
It is OK to want more, that's human nature. But original point was that economy is not healthy. Which is completely false.
Their point was that the economy is detached from the citizens.
It doesn’t matter if the economy is doing well, that GDP is rising, etc. when the actual quality of life of the people is worse than it was before.
Quality of life in the US is among the best and economy is not detached. That's the thing.
Don't you guys not even have public transport or public healthcare? Vuvuzuela has that. No problems.
Who us guys? We have everything here in the UK.
Oh I assumed you were American! Well hey fellow Brit, sadly I got some bad news for you:
No we don't, our public transport is dysfunctional due to endless strikes (which are due to shit pay and shit conditions) and the NHS is practically non-existent for dentistry, mental care and more due to years of neo-liberal austerity policies and "market solutions" that involve transferring money from our public purse to the fascists-to-be's mates.
At least the US has brute force of capital to cushion it if you're working some jobs and don't have any serious health problems.
Here in the UK even senior software devs struggle to make rent. We live with exactly the level of public services the US has in practice and we have no money for alternatives. Absolute shithole country. Government is literally landlords. Only remaining export is Transphobia.
Cool story, bro. But, you see, I migrated to the UK 8 years ago from a poor Eastern European country with only €2,000 in my pocket and bought my own home in London 2 years ago. If you can't afford life in the UK, the problem is with you. Sounds harsh, but that's the reality. Yes, things could be better, but they're better than in most of the world.
Ah yes, I stand corrected, all those poor teachers and nurses increasing food bank use should've just worked harder and took their €2,000 and pulled themselves up by their bootstraps /s
Absolute ghoulish behavior mate.
How did senior software devs turned into teachers? Mmm? Mate, you better stay quiet, people will think that you're smart.
It's not human nature, it's the relationship to means of production between the capitalist and proletariat classes, turning the wheels of history.
There are no classes in a capitalist society.
Lmao
https://usafacts.org/articles/us-households-with-plumbing-poverty/
But sure. Homes in colder parts of the U.S. can keep heated. They might have to use a wood stove and keep themselves in the one room the wood stove heats, but they can keep it heated.
Yeah, delusion is unreal... Americans...
Please explain exactly how showing you the results of a census that explains that half a million people in America do not, in fact, have running water make me delusional?
Are you claiming I created the website I linked you to? Because that would be delusional.
First of all, half a million is a tiny proportion of US. It's not even one city worth. Second, who are these people and where do they live? Are they your regular drug junkies who forfeited life in a modern society for their drug of choice? Or maybe they're scientists living in a remote location? In any case these are not part of the general public and they are a very tiny proportion.
This is an extremely different situation when compared to India, for example. Where 91 million people don't have access to drinkable water. That's 91 million. And not just running water at home - any fresh drinkable water at all! And 746 million people don't have access to sanitation facilities at home. Read: they don't have a toilet and a bathroom. That's double the US population! And pretty much half of Indian.
These oh so poor half a mil Americans... The US economy must be doing so bad!
I'm sorry... are you suggesting that someone deserves to not have running water if they use drugs? Should they also not deserve to have food? Should they just starve to death?
Play stupid games - win stupid prizes. Adults must face the consequences of their actions.
Why is no running water the consequence of addiction?
You are the most American here thinking the rest of the world is some sort of savage tribe living in dirt and hunting mammoths bruh 💀