• @acabjones
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    409 months ago

    Worsening standard of living as a result of 40 years of cuts to social services as neoliberal economic policy seeks to manage the contradictions of capitalism in the u.s. Basically the u.s. deindustrialized itself at the hands of monopoly capitalists which savaged the working class.

    Tl;Dr class war

    • @dangblingus@lemmy.world
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      69 months ago

      Americans make way more than Canadians do, they’re goods and services cost less than Canadians pay, Americans have a higher quality of life on average than Canadians, and yet Americans struggle the most out of all Western nations in feeding their children. Something isn’t right.

      • @orrk@lemmy.world
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        99 months ago

        Something isn’t right

        because all the things you mentioned come with a lot of asterisks and the abuse of the averages.

        for example, a lot of the common “quality of life index” that you will find America rank highly on include things like “property price to income ratio” meaning that if you take the average income and compare it to the vast very cheap no-mans land, you end up with a way better ratio than other nations, or stuff like “climate index” that put Canada lower on the quality of life because northern Canada is cold, etc…

        Tho you are wrong about the cost of living, Canada has a lower cost of living than America

        Don’t forget that Americans have to pay a lot out of pocket and for more than the cannucks to the north