Just another problem with 'Murica

[abaris]

I know that people will probably say something stupid about Somalia in response but honestly, it's not a comparison with some fringe countries, it's a comparison to how things are in most of the world. The world.

Care to elaborate on the world? I don't see America's poor being any better off than the poor in most parts of Europe. I don't see them to be better off than in the more developed parts of Asia.

You can only compare it to the fringe. And truth is, the majority of the world is fringe.

On paper, perhaps. When put into practice, not so much.

Exactly. In practice, it had it's ruling class too. But there's this thing about the former communist block. Since it fell, capitalism no longer feels the need to present a smiling face. There's no competing ideology anymore. And it shows. This kind of corporate power, corporate rule even, was unthinkable three decades ago. Might be just a natural development, that would have happened anyway.