• Sunshine (she/her)@lemmy.caEnglish
    27·
    3 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
      10·
      3 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
    20·
    3 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
    6·
    3 months ago

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

  • Manifish_Destiny
    61·
    3 months ago

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