I thought this was self explanatory since you guys mainline a lot of starving African kids in your mainstream media atleast, but apparently contrarianism has meant Chapos going the full circle and denying that it is actually even worse there.
Sincerely, someone in the global south. If you disagree, post below, I have a lot of time to explain.
Adding an edit to copy paste a comment where I replied in terms of what I mean
The amount of precariousness someone poor in the first world might face is not really comparable to what poverty in the south looks like. Rule of law is absent, the government is also absent, so while the social security net may be failing or too small in the first world– it’s entirely absent in the third. There aren’t enough teachers or doctors even for the people who can afford them. Children are born into indentured labour, by which I mean they are born to work off their parents debt, usually working from the age of 4 onwards. While we are all comrades, under the same boot of the bourgeoisie, remember that the workers of the third world may view the way that first world workers live in poverty as basically the good life.
Could you provide a few examples? I have never ever seen some one post this. Obviously the material conditions in third world countries are worse than in the first world.
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I've also heard statements saying that if it wasn't for the U.S barebones building code regulations, we'd have Brazilian style favelas across the country.
This particular statement has some truth to it though. Think of poor black areas of Arkansas and Alabama then picture an urban center without regulation.
There's a thread by glimmer_twin where people engage in this.