• madcaesar@lemmy.world
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    For the average person.

    If you are rich, there is no better country in the world than the USA.

    But if you work for a living you’ll be getting ground into powder.

    Sadly 50% of the population think they are rich, so they don’t even realize how awful they have it. Being afraid of getting sick and going bankrupt is insane in 2025 for a civilized country.

    Yet here we are…

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      I’d disagree, a stable and well functioning society is better for the rich - but they’d rather have instability and a penny more, than seeing the poor prosper in any fashion.

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        You only got one thing wrong The rich look at a poor person with a penny and think “that penny could be mine”. They don’t even see the poor person, just the penny.

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      No man, I mean for the rich too.

      It is depressing to travel around the US and see crumbling infrastructure, poverty, crime etc. and that makes you feel much less safe overall.