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> Ridiculously US centric article... The lived experience of the vast majority of US citizens is an illegitimate viewpoint? Whose viewpoints deserve a seat at

• acdha 4y ago
  The author is making a globally-sweeping claim in service of their opposition to "government planning". If their claim is trivially disproven by looking at countries with similar or greater quality of life around the world, that suggests that this is in fact not a universal truth but a deliberate policy outcome. The fact that it's also not true even within the United States (currently in some places, everywhere prior to WWII) similarly confirms that this isn't a deep truth but rather a convoluted restatement that most people will end up using the option which is favored by policy.