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Really depends on your values and desired lifestyle. I think you'd be very surprised how the rest of the world lives. It's not all terrible out there. Also very dependent on socio-economic status, there are some truly terrible living conditions in the USA for way more people than there should be.
Stroll through your nearest city "ghetto" and see first hand how some live. Or take your pick of squalor. It's not pretty and I'm not talking out my ass. I've slept in some questionable places in my life. Nothing that ever felt truly dangerous but very bad living situations.
Anyways, I'm just saying we have a lot of room for improvement.
I don't mean to minimize the problems of the US, and I'm sure there are plenty examples of squalor, and they should be treated seriously.
But proportionally and relatively speaking, most ghetto people in the US live like kings compared to most of the planet.
Like kings?... so they have sheverants and no issues with food security and live in castles?
Just because they have electricity hardly makes them kings...
I mean relatively.
Search for images of "favela". Tens of millions of Brazilians live in those. The better ones are built with brick, many are just scrap wood and cardboard.
And Brazil is one of the "developing" countries.
Whats funny.. if youre living in poverty youre probably better off in brazil. Atleast they have healthcare as a right.
The only reason the us isnt like brazil today was because the new dealers in the 30's-50's actually had the great idea of investing in the common people and had hundreds of billions of dollars poured into communities and all the shanty towns were torn down and affordable housing was built in their place. But since the progressives lost power, the us is quickly tipping away from wealth equality, and shantytowns are making their way back. We're a single depression from having millions living in favela's.
The history is a bit more complicated than that, Brazil has also suffered from uncontrollably high inflation for most of its history and had to change currencies a dozen times because the old one had become worthless, something that the USA did not have, even at the height of the Great Depression.
And you have basically infinite money to do a New New Deal, if your government doesn't jump directly into joining a World War, which worked even more.
Then I guess we should start figuring out why the rest of the planet is being exploited for our gain and maybe cut that shit out. Capital gonna capital though.
I've lived in a destitute country and I'm not so certain about that