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by SketchySeaBeast 1472 days ago
Lots of America struggles under the weight of trying to pay for basic health care and dental (50% of Americans have medical debt[1]) and for many education is utterly out of reach. 11.4% of America lives in poverty (poverty being defined as "a lack of those goods and services which are commonly taken for granted by members of mainstream society"). It's disingenuous to look at the state of things and say that because we have cellphones and cavemen didn't we're all doing fine.

[1] https://www.forbes.com/sites/debgordon/2021/10/13/50-of-amer...

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They struggle more with being overweight. Most humans in most of human history struggled with having enough food and water to survive. They would trade their struggle for ours in a heartbeat.

Americans are the people who complain when the wifi goes down or someone says the wrong word.

And cavemen would have thought the Roman's life pretty good too, but I don't know how that relates to the average American and billionaires unless it's an attempt to silence people and tell them to know their place. Societal inequality can still be a very real issue even if we're collectively on average doing better than a 19th century chimney sweep.