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You just did fool lol you called niggas retarded.
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I get all you saying but would you sit by and watch people deal with options they think they are limited to or would you try to guide them to better or more options?It's not as easy as just don't support for a good portion of people. You think a parent/family who is struggling to make it is thinking about the global implications of shopping at Walmart vs a local store or considering which store would give them the best deal. You can't blame people from having to choose between two fucked up options if those options are all they have.
I said this in a thread a while ago that many people need to ask themselves if they made/make good decisions or are they simply able to choose from better options. And because of the way society is set up the average person has little to no control over the options placed in front of them on how to navigate the world. You can only control which choices you make within that given framework.
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He said it was random so everyone gets a chance to get dustedLol ok
How many want that sacrifice for more excess or how many pretend to be ok where they are.Only on Earth can wanting those blessed with excess to help out the less fortunate be considered an affront. Lol Thanos was right
Do you have that same smoke for the lower income folk who game the system to get paid as you do those who not paying?Billionaires aren't bad, they just need to be taxed accordingly. Too many loopholes for rich folk to use to get out of paying what they should. Companies need to be held to account for bad labor practices.
All those Scandanavian countries that American socialists tout as perfection are capitalist and they, too, have billionaires. Sweden, Iceland, and Norway all have more billionaires per million people than America. Those countries also are among the top-15 or so countries with the lowest income inequality. They are all countries with robust social safety nets for the lowest earners.
Again, billionaires are not inherently bad. Terrible tax policies and regulation is bad.
Yes. Everyone should pay their relative "fair share". That is how we maintain society.Do you have that same smoke for the lower income folk who game the system to get paid as you do those who not paying?
I get all you saying but would you sit by and watch people deal with options they think they are limited to or would you try to guide them to better or more options?
So only the rich and wealthy owe?
Middle and lower class dont owe the homeless?
What do y’all owe?
This is very, very much a lie. The standard of living, both worldwide and solely in the developed world, has been consistently improving.the decade after decade downward trend of standards of living
This is very, very much a lie. The standard of living, both worldwide and in the developed world, has been consistently improving.
Are Americans better off than they were a decade or two ago? | Brookings
Ben Bernanke and Peter Olson ask if Americans are better off than they were a decade ago, and tackle the question using a new, more-comprehensive measure of economic welfare that takes into account changes in working time, life expectancy, and inequality.www.brookings.edu
Again, it is still not accurate.Well, my statement was directed towards the us...in that context, its accurate
And there are several global trajectories ... places of improvement like india, and places of stagnation and regression bangladesh pakistan Eritrea somalia etc
Again, it is still not accurate.
U.S. standard of living has not been declining for "decades and decades". Income and consumption in the U.S. has been on an upward trend for decades save for the global economic crisis in 2008. Despite this, the real GDP per capita of the U.S. is up $16,000 since the year 2000. I do suggest giving the Brookings article a read.
Since the year 2000, more people worldwide who have completed some post secondary education has gone up 6% and the number of people without an education has decreased 6%. Child mortality rates are down 4%. Illiteracy rates are down 5%. The amount of people living in extreme poverty is down 19%.
The short history of global living conditions and why it matters that we know it
Very few think the world is making progress. In this article I am looking at the data to challenge the widespread negative sentiments.ourworldindata.org
Since the year 2000, life expectancy is still up nearly a year. 2 years of dip is not "decades and decades".Life expectancy has been declining in the us for the last several years. Dramatic EMPIRICAL explosions of drug abuse drug overdose deaths homelessness etc... maybe we have different interpretations of "standard of living"
As opposed to that point in time decades and decades ago where there weren't any refugees anywhere.Climate refugees... climate displacement...even climate related warfare (alot of conflicts gets reduced to "tribal warfare " in the West if it even gets much mention at all) the devolution of the global diet to a standard handful of cash crops. Hegemonic agribusiness damn near dictating what gets grown and where
You said the standard of living has been falling for decades and decades and I showed proof that it wasn't the truth. I'm none too interested in fighting for the good reputation of rich folk but this connection you are making it weak and anecdotal.I can keep going and going but these are issues that have been sprouting and intensifying for decades and they are directly related to concentrations of power and control of resources ...i.e. billionaires
It shows the trend that the standard of living has not been on the decline for decades and decades, which is what you stated as fact earlier in this thread.Thats a 2016 article...its 2023... and what exactly isn't accurate about? Im making specific points...and mentioned particularly nations.