well said. from TFA:
> All I could think to myself was: If we’re so smart, why are other people living so much better than us?
he seems to have forgotten about hundreds of millions of Chinese living in poverty. how disgusting.
> All I could think to myself was: If we’re so smart, why are other people living so much better than us?
he seems to have forgotten about hundreds of millions of Chinese living in poverty. how disgusting.
Compared to the shrinking middle class in America as wealth flows upwards.
Don't get me wrong - I'm far from pro-Chinese, I'm just saying, let's not let the fact that there are starving people there prevent us from seeing our own faults.
Yeah, ok, they can't march into the street in protest of their government, but are they really that much worse off in the material sense?
Before you break out the numbers - keep in mind that while they make far less than Americans, their cost of living is similarly lower. I find the Chinese urban middle class lifestyle to be comparable to the American middle class lifestyle, sans a few things like a huge backyard.