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  • Aux@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    I’m from Western Europe. Housing is much much more expensive here. If you’re on a verge of homelessness in US, I have bad news for you.

    In any case, billions of people can’t even dream of US quality of life. That’s just a fact. Your medical care might be expensive, but you have it, most people don’t have access to modern medicine at all. Hundreds of millions don’t have access to clean water. I don’t think you understand how people live elsewhere.

    • JackGreenEarth@lemmy.world
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      1 year ago

      Even if what you’re saying is true, and nowhere exists on Earth where there is a high quality of life, it doesn’t mean we shouldn’t aim to get there.

      • Aux@lemmy.world
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        1 year ago

        You can aim for whatever you want, but how’s that’s relevant to the discussion?

    • Emptiness@lemmy.world
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      1 year ago

      This in Western Europe? I live in northern Europe and have traveled a lot throughout all western Europe. Where the heck is this squalor you’re talking about exactly? Please be geographically specific.

    • hydra@lemmy.world
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      1 year ago

      It is much worse here in Latin America where you have European cost of life but Latin American wages.