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well said. from TFA: > All I could think to myself was: If we’re so smart, why are other people living so much better than us? he seems to have forgotten abou
by hassy 18y ago
well said. from TFA:
> All I could think to myself was: If we’re so smart, why are other people living so much better than us?
he seems to have forgotten about hundreds of millions of Chinese living in poverty. how disgusting.
- potatolicious 18y agoAs opposed to the tens of millions of Americans living in poverty? Yeah, the Chinese poor have it far worse than the poor in America - but at least their middle class is growing, not shrinking. Wealth is being generated for the everyman, and things are rapidly getting better for the average Joe. Compared to the shrinking middle class in America as wealth flows upwards. Don't get me wrong - I'm far from pro-Chinese, I'm just saying, let's not let the fact that there are starving people there prevent us from seeing our own faults.
- dgordon 18y agoThe Chinese middle class have it worse than the poor in America.
- potatolicious 18y agoDo they? They live in apartments, drive cars, take the bus, eat many of the same foods from the same chains that we do here. What's so different? Yeah, ok, they can't march into the street in protest of their government, but are they really that much worse off in the material sense? Before you break out the numbers - keep in mind that while they make far less than Americans, their cost of living is similarly lower. I find the Chinese urban middle class lifestyle to be comparable to the American middle class lifestyle, sans a few things like a huge backyard.
- rms 18y agoYou have different definitions of middle class.