I don’t understand you guys. We live in the best era possible in the best places of the world. First world, free of ailments of the poverty unlike other 85% of the planet. We don’t die out of hunger. We can earn money posting funny videos on the web and instagram or sitting in our chairs all day in AC temp controlled rooms.
You must be. EXTREMELY, UNIMAGINABLY privileged if you’re saying that.
Poverty is at a high it hasn’t been since the great depression, most people are one paycheck away from homelessness and destitution. And most of the ones that aren’t on the “one paycheck” threshold are instead in the “one emergency” threshold instead, which is not much better.
In fact, if you have no debt and 20 dollars to your name you are officially wealthier than 90% of Americans. Don’t even need to be rich.
People rally around Luigi because what he did was incredibly cathartic, to punish one of the psychos responsible for our world’s rapid descent into some bizarre 1984-by-way-of-wall-e technodystopia. It might not accomplish anything… But it feels good. And people are desperate for some kind of good feeling.
Really I envy how naïve you are if you can’t see the way things have been going steadily downhill since the eighties with no real improvement.
Also lmao at thinking we will “pioneer the cosmos”. Elon Musk bullshit. We have driven our own planet into a now-entirely-unstoppable mass extinction event, and in ~30 years we’ll be struggling to produce enough food to feed ourselves, let alone going to some elysium in the stars.
There’s worse places out there, to be sure. China’s worse, for one thing. They’re like America but you have a ton of limitations in what you can watch to distract you from the void. Russia who’s sending their own people to die over their dictator’s ego.
But I’d much rather be poor as a Brazilian citizen, where I have 100% free healthcare and education – Than to be poor in the US of A where you leave your unfortunate citizens to their own and blame them for their misfortune.
Ofc, given Murica’s foreign-interference-y habits and who’s currently in charge of your country, we might just become a fascist dictatorship again and all our public services might get defunded. It happened in the sixties, it almost happened in the twenty-tens, it can happen again.
I still find it hard to believe USA is so bad all of a sudden. It’s just mind bending, it’s hard to grasp how is it possible considering the statistics and strongest economy. I don’t think I will ever fully understand it.
One country instead of USA then for the “grass is always greener” fantasy I was kinda hoping to get into was New Zealand
China is literally right behind the US in “strong economy” stats and some expect them to surpass it… And that means jack and shit, because living in China fucking sucks, especially if you are under 30.
A strong economy means little if all that wealth is being used to…
… Uh. Kill people mostly.
Whereas the people’s lives have been getting steadily worse since 1980.
You know the Simpsons? It’s just a cartoon, right? It was originally a parody of eighties-nineties America.
The Simpsons as they were written in the late eighties were meant to be a lower-class family. They still owned their own house (a large, two story suburban property at that!), their own car, and all on the income of just the man of the house. They were “poor” by eighties standards because Bart didn’t always get all the newest and shiniest toys and they didn’t travel abroad every year.
The Simpsons’ economic situation hasn’t changed in the forty-ish years the show has existed for. But nowadays their lifestyle is considered insanely wealthy. There isn’t a single family in the US left that has their own home and car on the income of 1(one) man with a high school education, working for wages with no generational wealth, side hustles, or passive income. There just isn’t.
The fiction of the show has to make all sorts of excuses for that. It acts as an accidentally poignant time-capsule and depiction of how much the US of A has degenerated in the past 40 years. And the sad part is most of y’all seem to be cheering for this, or at least, resigned to the idea you can’t do shit about it – Like – This happened in America, these guys were Americans. Your ancestors took care of each other, in the face of authoritarian power, and often on the penalty of death. This is something you all seem to have forgotten.
Mind you, life has been getting steadily shittier since 1980 in – The entire first world really. Neoliberalism has done a number and a half on society. Reagan and Thatcher are the reason we all hope hell is real so they can go there. The living standards your generation has are shite compared to what your (grand)parents knew.
This is not the case here in the Third World… But that’s mostly because of how hard it sucked to live here in the sixties and seventies. Yeah, a messy society being eroded by cruel “austerity” measures is gonna be a dream come true when you are literally coming straight out of a military dictatorship that drained the country’s coffers and killed god knows how many people in the most cruel ways imaginable (thanks for that, by the way, US. Never would have happened without Operation Condor :3).
At least I can say I have like. A vote. And human rights after a fashion. And some hope that my life might maybe possibly not completely suck. All things with my parents didn’t have until they were… Literally in their mid thirties (which I’m close to but not quite at).
You must be. EXTREMELY, UNIMAGINABLY privileged if you’re saying that.
Poverty is at a high it hasn’t been since the great depression, most people are one paycheck away from homelessness and destitution. And most of the ones that aren’t on the “one paycheck” threshold are instead in the “one emergency” threshold instead, which is not much better.
In fact, if you have no debt and 20 dollars to your name you are officially wealthier than 90% of Americans. Don’t even need to be rich.
People rally around Luigi because what he did was incredibly cathartic, to punish one of the psychos responsible for our world’s rapid descent into some bizarre 1984-by-way-of-wall-e technodystopia. It might not accomplish anything… But it feels good. And people are desperate for some kind of good feeling.
Really I envy how naïve you are if you can’t see the way things have been going steadily downhill since the eighties with no real improvement.
Also lmao at thinking we will “pioneer the cosmos”. Elon Musk bullshit. We have driven our own planet into a now-entirely-unstoppable mass extinction event, and in ~30 years we’ll be struggling to produce enough food to feed ourselves, let alone going to some elysium in the stars.
So what you want to tell me is that the America sucks?
There’s worse places out there, to be sure. China’s worse, for one thing. They’re like America but you have a ton of limitations in what you can watch to distract you from the void. Russia who’s sending their own people to die over their dictator’s ego.
But I’d much rather be poor as a Brazilian citizen, where I have 100% free healthcare and education – Than to be poor in the US of A where you leave your unfortunate citizens to their own and blame them for their misfortune.
Ofc, given Murica’s foreign-interference-y habits and who’s currently in charge of your country, we might just become a fascist dictatorship again and all our public services might get defunded. It happened in the sixties, it almost happened in the twenty-tens, it can happen again.
I still find it hard to believe USA is so bad all of a sudden. It’s just mind bending, it’s hard to grasp how is it possible considering the statistics and strongest economy. I don’t think I will ever fully understand it.
One country instead of USA then for the “grass is always greener” fantasy I was kinda hoping to get into was New Zealand
China is literally right behind the US in “strong economy” stats and some expect them to surpass it… And that means jack and shit, because living in China fucking sucks, especially if you are under 30.
A strong economy means little if all that wealth is being used to…
… Uh. Kill people mostly.
Whereas the people’s lives have been getting steadily worse since 1980.
You know the Simpsons? It’s just a cartoon, right? It was originally a parody of eighties-nineties America.
The Simpsons as they were written in the late eighties were meant to be a lower-class family. They still owned their own house (a large, two story suburban property at that!), their own car, and all on the income of just the man of the house. They were “poor” by eighties standards because Bart didn’t always get all the newest and shiniest toys and they didn’t travel abroad every year.
The Simpsons’ economic situation hasn’t changed in the forty-ish years the show has existed for. But nowadays their lifestyle is considered insanely wealthy. There isn’t a single family in the US left that has their own home and car on the income of 1(one) man with a high school education, working for wages with no generational wealth, side hustles, or passive income. There just isn’t.
The fiction of the show has to make all sorts of excuses for that. It acts as an accidentally poignant time-capsule and depiction of how much the US of A has degenerated in the past 40 years. And the sad part is most of y’all seem to be cheering for this, or at least, resigned to the idea you can’t do shit about it – Like – This happened in America, these guys were Americans. Your ancestors took care of each other, in the face of authoritarian power, and often on the penalty of death. This is something you all seem to have forgotten.
Mind you, life has been getting steadily shittier since 1980 in – The entire first world really. Neoliberalism has done a number and a half on society. Reagan and Thatcher are the reason we all hope hell is real so they can go there. The living standards your generation has are shite compared to what your (grand)parents knew.
This is not the case here in the Third World… But that’s mostly because of how hard it sucked to live here in the sixties and seventies. Yeah, a messy society being eroded by cruel “austerity” measures is gonna be a dream come true when you are literally coming straight out of a military dictatorship that drained the country’s coffers and killed god knows how many people in the most cruel ways imaginable (thanks for that, by the way, US. Never would have happened without Operation Condor :3).
At least I can say I have like. A vote. And human rights after a fashion. And some hope that my life might maybe possibly not completely suck. All things with my parents didn’t have until they were… Literally in their mid thirties (which I’m close to but not quite at).