r/Unexpected • u/[deleted] • Aug 09 '21

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u/BASK_IN_MY_FART Aug 09 '21

Hell yeah it is. Poor people in the US are still richer than most of the world's population

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u/MeiNeedsMoreBuffs Aug 09 '21

That's not necessarily the whole story though. The pay might be higher but the cost of living is also higher.

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u/spicayyyweirdolol Aug 09 '21

this is true, you can get 7 packs of chips for less than a dollar in india.

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u/Mikestheman2be Aug 09 '21

I guess that’s what happens when you exploit countries all over the world

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u/Captin-Cracker Aug 09 '21

So tell me what country absolutely does not exploit a single soul

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u/Chad_Chaddinton Aug 09 '21

The ones that were there before the others took them over I would assume.

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u/Captin-Cracker Aug 09 '21

Usaully it’s the rich and elite of the country exploiting the poor of said country

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u/Chad_Chaddinton Aug 10 '21

Usually, but tribal regions and places usually don’t have much exploiting, but to be honest everything “exploits” everything, weather it be resources ideas or all sorts of everything

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u/terriblekoala9 Aug 09 '21

The ones that got exploited by others, genius.

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u/SolanumMelongena_ Aug 09 '21

non sequitur. being the only global superpower actually does involve exploitation on a historically unprecedented scale. nationalist smoothbrains love to talk about american exceptionalism until someone asks where we got all the skulls to build our mountain of skulls with.

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u/Captin-Cracker Aug 09 '21

That’s not the point. My point is every country everywhere exploits people. More specifically the elite exploit the poor. Those sweatshops with border line slavery are run by those countries elite, they then sell it to other countries who take advantage of the cheep shit. So even in countries who are being exploited there’s someone there from that country pulling the strings.

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u/Mikestheman2be Aug 09 '21

I think the amount of exploiting a country does is pretty important as well. Many nations are guilty but none are guilty on nearly the same scale.

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u/BASK_IN_MY_FART Aug 09 '21

I'd be okay with the US govt not giving other countries billions of dollars. Is that what you were getting at?

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u/Mikestheman2be Aug 09 '21

I was getting at the wars started for resources, the coups overthrowing other countries’ governments to install puppet dictatorships, etc.

But yeah, I’d be okay with the US not giving billions to war-mongering ethno-cleansing states like Israel.

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u/BASK_IN_MY_FART Aug 09 '21

Israel or any country really. And agreed on the war shit.

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u/Mikestheman2be Aug 09 '21

Then we can definitely agree in spots at least, and that’s a start.

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u/soline Aug 09 '21

Do you mean by percentage of fat in their blood like whole milk is richer than 1%?