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> You could live with dignity here in France on minimum wage I don't know about that, but - your French employer can certainly live off of you when you're maki
by einpoklum 4y ago
> You could live with dignity here in France on minimum wage
I don't know about that, but - your French employer can certainly live off of you when you're making minimum wage.
> how about the US?
It's questionable whether you could live in dignity in the US regardless of what your salary is... just looking at the situation in Jackson, Mississipi right now, or the state of public transport or healthcare in a country as rich as the US makes you feel like someone is playing a cruel joke at people's expense.
- DFHippie 4y agoThe problem in the US is that there's a huge chunk of the population that believes the chief thing the government can give them is vengeance against their uppity neighbors. Where this movement is ascendant, the government does little more than deal out humiliation to those out of power. Those who control the movement are free to loot the governmental power left unused. I agree that there's little dignity in it. This is ameliorated by federalism. If you don't want to live in crazytown, you can pull up roots and move to another state with a government that actually tries to identify and solve real problems. I think the same dynamic plays out everywhere on Earth in different forms. In some places the folks seeking to avenge their honor, and the false friends stoking their grievances, are fewer, but there are some everywhere.