Just another problem with 'Murica

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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.

Most of the world is fringe? Only if you totally redefine the definition of fringe. The reality is that the first world is fringe, western Europe is fringe. Also most of Europe is not better off. That's only if, like everybody who make these silly comparison, you imagine eastern Europe just doesn't exist or doesn't count for some imaginary reason. This idea that there is Western Europe, Japan, Australia and the rest of it is just some giant shithole is ridiculous. The only way America compares poorly is if it's intentionally cherrypicked against countries that it compares poorly to, like the above. Which isn't a shock because so does everywhere else in the world. It's continually amazing to me how poorly people on these forums have a concept of what other countries are like.