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> health care is more accessible to poor people in 3rd-world countries than in some advanced countries (e.g., US). Do you seriously believe it's even remotely
by spwa4 1y ago
> health care is more accessible to poor people in 3rd-world countries than in some advanced countries (e.g., US).
Do you seriously believe it's even remotely comparable? In 3rd-world countries even basic healthcare is totally inaccessible unless someone in your family is at the top level of government. If you're a worker or in a worker family even glasses are probably almost impossible to get.
- prmph 1y ago> In 3rd-world countries even basic healthcare is totally inaccessible unless someone in your family is at the top level of government. If you're a worker or in a worker family even glasses are probably almost impossible to get. I know for sure this is totally wrong, because I have lived in 3rd world countries, and I was born in one. You're just imagining stuff.
- spwa4 1y agoI visited a few rural cities in the Central African republic ~15 years ago and this situation definitely exists (existed?) there. Your best bet is to try to get care in a monastery, but it's not like they have glasses or anything other than basic medicine.
- prmph 1y agoThe Central African Republic is among the poorest of countries in the world, so that situation might exist there. But many (most?) 3rd world countries, like Ghana where I was born, are nowhere near this level of misery.
- inglor_cz 1y agoThe root of your disagreement lies in the fact that "The Third World" isn't really a useful abstraction anymore. Plenty of former 3rd world countries are middle-income now. There is just no comparison between living in Thailand vs. South Sudan, even though there might be in the 1950s. Time to toss the expression entirely, it doesn't really describe anything concrete anymore. The world has changed.