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Originally Posted by Patriam1066
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Have you ever been to Germany? Everyone is equally poor. Other than the climate being much less equatorial and the country being more walkable, it isn’t any better than the United States
This is not a bad country to live in. You should check out Iran, I’m from a place where in 1982 we had an outhouse to take a shit. True story. We had plumbing in Esfahan but we left for my dad’s ethnic Georgian village near the Zagros because gangs of men were roaming about burning property belonging to religious minorities (my mother)
The point of this thread wasn’t to say fuck the poor, it was to say that some of you lack perspective on the very real fact that you are blessed to have been born in the western world. This is among the freest and most fair societies in human history in which you take home a greater product of your own labor than perhaps ever before. Americans aren’t serfs, and the belief amongst some that they are is much more damaging than any level of corruption currently running rampant in Washington
Finally, fuck Canada
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Studies have shown that finishing high school, getting a job, and not having a child that one can’t afford results in 75% of teens who were born into poverty in the US moving into the middle class, which is earning $55k/yr
But none of that shit is truly necessary, at least not to survive. Hundreds of years ago, you either developed a skill or trade that you could exchange for currency or goods or else you slowly starved to death on the street. Now, no one is going to starve to death, or if they are, it’s due to a mental illness or severe drug habit interfering with their ability to get food. If you have zero income you automatically qualify for SNAP meal assistance, which is enough food to feed a single adult each month. There are also food banks which do free meals each day and grocery stores donate tons of food each month to be handed out to needy families
So don’t work, if you don’t want. People have that freedom now. It’s just your quality of life won’t be great