[SerLava]

This is splitting hairs.

40% of Americans can't come up with $400 but luckily a majority of those know a financial institution that can come up with $400 for them.

Anyone who does not have an emergency $400 is not going to have a great time with an unexpected $400 debt on top of whatever else their debt obligations and expenses are.

Is it so hard to believe that we want to live in a country where pretty much everyone has four hundred measly god damned dollars.

[Gibbon1]

I see it as the neoliberal revolution has failed to deliver and it's apologists are grasping at straws to avoid staring down the damage they have done to the bulk humanity. They'll also say things like well it was bad for people living the Midwest but look at all the Chinese lifted out of poverty. Ignoring that China was too large and coherent to beat into submission like smaller countries were. And thus they didn't inflict those policies on their people.

[jackfraser]

Of course you want that country. The thing is, the magical panacea of giving out free money to everyone just devalues the money. $1000 Yang Bucks will become the equivalent of $100 now within short order, as prices for things go up.

[SerLava]

No yang bucks. Better wages, publicly funded health care, no more war grift without an actually good reason.

I dont understand why Americans lack this magic spell you're talking about, meanwhile Harry Potter is running around Europe handing out healthcare and extending life spans and shit.

Are we just worse at life or something? Maybe we're not good enough?