Goatseye said:
MikeRox said:
Goatseye said:
I lived in multiple countries and I'm in a position to deduce this. Cost of life is way more expensive and agressive here.
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I wasn't questioning whether it was true or false. It's just seriously wow.
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I never seen so much struggle to live in a developed country like I do in US. And here there's no neighbors or family to help you out.
In other countries there's a sense of community and cooperation. Not here, if you need something and you don't have money you're effed.
Here they make money off of despair, high interest rates on loans and private penitenciaries for absurd free slave labor profit.
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That is complete bullshit. Stop generalizing. I come from a family so close and almost universally impoverished that they hold eachother up. My grandmother needed money for her property taxes, my mom had excess to lend her. Conversely, my mother was behind on her rent, and my grandmother and aunt were able to lend money until my mother got back on her feet. Maybe in the very impersonal cities where everybody is rude to eachother and looks out for themselves this is the case, but certainly not in most of middle-class and working-class suburban/small city/rural America. As for community and cooperation, again, this is evident in the huge number of private and public community events that can be found in almost every, single municipality. The only reason for somebody to come to the conclusion you have is complete ignorance.
But, just to disprove your anecdotes further,
Choose "voluntary private" and look to see which countrymen gives to his or her fellows the most out of his or her own free will, at 10.2% GDP (vasty more than any other.)
http://stats.oecd.org/Index.aspx?datasetcode=SOCX_AGG