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.

  • Tankiedesantski [he/him]
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    4 years ago

    One of the things that finally prompted me to leave reddit was arguing with someone on a "leftist" sub who insisted that it was justifiable for a poor American to join the US military for a better life.

    When I asked them how it was okay for said American to go off to kill an Afghan working for a dollar a day when the Yank could make several times an hour even at the worst minimum wage, they just started talking about purchasing power.

    • grylarski [they/them]
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      4 years ago

      They're not wrong about purchasing power, it's massively different. You can get a veggie McDonald's burger for a third of a dollar in India. The funny thing is that McDonald's is considered upper class food, because Indian workers are also paid those low wages. Unfortunately the reason for this is that labour is incredibly cheap, it works more hours in worse conditions in every part of the supply chain, and things many people take for granted in the states, like a local official to petition, a FDA that works 70 percent of the time, unemployment benefits (just don't exist in my country), food banks, charity they are incredibly poorly resourced and difficult to access.

      The burger will also be made with food containing pesticides or mercury that are either illegal or too high in the west.