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so much irony

have you heard of indian reservations?

my uber driver told me she was offered $100 bonus after giving just 3 rides if she started driving again...

it became a state in 1959 with everything finally crushed out of it - before that it was still a quasi territory with more independence

isn't the US Military the equivalent of the "Manchu" here? (The US Military wiped out the natives, took all their land, and brought and enforced slavery on this land?) Didn't the US just annex Hawaii as an official state a few years ago? Isn't all of California land that the military just kinda stole from Mexico?

Both China and India have lower CO2 emissions per capita than the US....

13.5K is the mean - the median is around $6k and the US Mean income is much much higher - various sources show something around $70K.

the average annual income in China is something around $12K. I would not say it is developed, just because the top percentile of the population seem to live lavish lives.

did a quick look - median income is around $4K-6K a year. there is no way that can be compared to any 1st world country. http://www.stats.gov.cn/english/PressRelease/202101/t2021011...

According to this list - China's median income is comparable to Bolivia, Libya, Dominican Republic, Paraguay, etc. Would you list all those as developed countries? https://worldpopulationreview.com/country-rankings/median-in...

And according to this GDP Per Capita list - China ranks 73. Don't believe the racist propaganda trying to make you fear China. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_GDP_%28PP...

How do you explain certain states and cities doing so much better, even within the US? And other western countries, such as NZ, Canada, and Germany really beating the US in every metric possible? Experience is not the key here. Quality of leadership is

consumers get it cheaper than it should actually cost? restaurants get to sell more volume during covid, otherwise there's no way they'd have the volume to support staying open, and drivers are getting paid for something that normally wouldn't be a viable thing, I don't think many are leaving better opportunities, otherwise, they wouldn't do it...

ironically, the people in the US against universal health care because of a fear of death panels are the same ones demanding a death panel now.

lets say you can usually interact with 5-10 people closely everyday. Even a tech company is going to be more diverse than the average person's 10 closest friends/family members.