People wait in line for a free morning meal in Los Angeles in April 2020. High and rising inequality is one reason the U.S. ranks badly on some international measures of development. Frederic J. Brown/ AFP via Getty ImagesThe United States may regard itself as a “leader of the free world,” but an index of development released in July 2022 places the country much farther down the list. In its global rankings, the United Nations Office of Sustainable Development dropped the U.S. to 41st worldwide,
  • loathesome dongeater
    16•2 years ago

    Yeah it’s a terrible way to frame the problems that the US is facing. It trivialises why “developing countries” have never developed by ignoring that it is just liberal terminology to obscure the imperialist relations and its consequences. Even if 99% of the American people somehow end up living in squalor, will it still be a “developing country” with its multi trillion dollar military and 300 or so overseas bases. Leave it to liberals to obfuscate reality at every opportunity.