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The Average American Works Harder And Vacations Less Than A Medieval Peasant
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this post was submitted on 21 Jun 2023
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My only issue with the article is the reference to America as a first-world country. Crumbling and non-existent transportation infrastructure, a desperate workforce who can't survive on the wages they're paid, unaffordable housing, groceries, education and healthcare, and every day adults and children are getting shot by their community members. How can the US still be labeled "first-world"?
Transitioning to second world is more like it.
What is left to transition to make the transformation into the second world complete? A violent political insurrection against the houses of government and interference in the democratic process by a sitting president? Check.
i hear ya... we suck... but i don't think we've gone full Russia just yet... thus i view it more as we are transitioning into a second world country. It's not happening over night... little by little these oligarchs are chipping away at all liberties and guardrails...
Yea, I see what you're saying. I don't even think we suck. I think those oligarchs you mentioned suck and it's disapoointing that all of the people I grew up with and knew are dead inside for one crapitalist, institutional. hegemonic reason or another.
Exactly we haven't (if ever) been a first world country.