• Sunshine (she/her)
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    272 months ago

    Counterpoint: imagine how good life would be in North America if we had kept the decent wages and high unionization rates past the 1980s

    • @MutilationWave
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      102 months ago

      Then no one would be desperate enough to join the military. Jesus fuck it’s like you people don’t even think about the military.

  • @Korne127
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    202 months ago

    While this is true (I assume), the share of people living in poverty is not the only important metric. Authoritarianism has been on the rise for a long time; look at the Freedom of the World report. Since 2006, every single year had more countries getting more authoritarian than countries getting less authoritarian:

  • @someguy3
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    62 months ago

    Yeah but they didn’t have to worry about any of that.

  • @Manifish_Destiny
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    52 months ago

    How about by number of individuals in extreme poverty instead of a percentage of the population?