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I live in a country with no such guarantee and people have managed to live.

• jarek 16y ago
  And there's no social unrest and the well-off aren't barricading themselves in gated neighbourhoods.
• jhamburger 16y ago
  Which country, out of curiousity? I'm only asking because I'm not aware of any countries without some form of social safety net where life isn't absolutely miserable for the underclass.
  • philiphodgen 16y ago
    Sherlock says: India. 1. Look at HN profile. See manky website listed there: lifeasparesh.co.cc. 2. That website doesn't load for me. 3. Go to Mr. Google and type in lifeasparesh. 4. Find blog.lifesasparesh.in. 5. Notice that in the search results the owner of this site reports a HN username of rick_2047. Economic/political analysis may now continue based on this piece of information. <detour> (And yeah I'm receptive to ideas the original article. "99 weeks of xbox" is hyperbole but after pruning away the hyperbole from the article -- and the opposing comments in this thread -- there are some hard questions remaining. It's worth talking about these questions in an adult manner while attempting to avoiding Godwin-lite debate tactics. Which, I confess, I frequently find myself using because it's fun to go "Ha! Score!) </detour>