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My mother grew up in southern Europe in conditions that were bordering middle-age conditions and now life there is completely different. Prosperity is always r
by chobeat 5y ago
My mother grew up in southern Europe in conditions that were bordering middle-age conditions and now life there is completely different.
Prosperity is always relative to the system you're immersed in and in a globalist world, your prosperity is defined by the prosperity of how people on the other side of the world live. Americans can believe they have the best living conditions in the world and same can do northern Europeans and maybe Japanese too. Let's throw in urbanized chinese middle class too. But in developing countries they don't have the privilege to believe they are in that competition. They are always a province of the empire and living in scarcity.
This says nothing about the enormous changes that went on pretty much everywhere in the rural parts of every country with very few, isolated exceptions.