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lol, “functioning”.
also lol, “democracy”
Hartmann will never stop believing in liberal democracy because it is difficult to get a man to understand something when his salary depends upon his not understanding it.
“developed world” threw me for a loop
“Functioning democracy” 🤡
Yeah, one could argue that a functioning democracy would prevent the kind of wealth gap we have.
Or, you know, someone who looses the popular vote to loose an election.
Or, multiple parties that actually have different platforms.
I find it ironic that they chose to use an AI generated image rather than pay a photographer or an artist.
Or a model who is actually representative of the poorest people that they are trying to illustrate the plight of.
is that fake old white guy not homeless-looking enough for your standards?
No lol the fake person is plenty homeless-looking… But it’s a fake person.
Ah fair enough.
I think this is just one guy not a corporation.
I used they rather than he or she because I did not want to assume a gender.
then they’d have to pay someone. ironic indeed
functioning democracy
doing a lot of work here
The title implies we haven’t been the most unequal society for the better part of a century.
The article is written by a lib, so have to account for the biases there.
yeah it was literally always that way
From the start, right? Like chattel slavery and settler colonialism is about as unequal as you can get
Yeah. Even my comment is understating things.
So you’re telling us we’re number one?
American exceptionalism baby
Functioning democracy [citation needed]
“Our poor people are the poorest” sounds suspect to be honest - Haiti? Congo? If you count $200K in student loan debt as poorer than $0 across the board, sure, but if you go by actual quality of life, there’s no way.
The article is qualifying it as the poorest in the developed world.
“our poor people are the poorest of any functioning democracy on Earth” - Does this mean that the author doesn’t count the developing world as functioning democracies, but does count all of the developed world as functioning democracies?
that tracks with the author clearly being a lib
Saddest part is this will get no attention. Nothing, absolutely nothing, will be done about this.
Yay!!!
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