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> The poor person is likely to starve to death. This is actually _extremely_ unlikely in the US or Western Europe. Social safety nets do in fact exist, and wh
by bzbarsky 5y ago
> The poor person is likely to starve to death.
This is actually _extremely_ unlikely in the US or Western Europe. Social safety nets do in fact exist, and while they have all sorts of problems they do generally prevent starvation to death. Now eating things that get you to ill health, that is much more believable.
- OnlineGladiator 5y agoMost of the world isn't the US or western Europe. Try to be a little less ethnocentric.