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.

    • grylarski [they/them]
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      4 years ago

      I'm trying explain how degrees of precariousness are different and devastating. When the pandemic hit and the govt enforces a lockdown, millions of people have no option to go home from cities to their villages to people who could support them as there are no such things as unemployment benefits. Because they're poor, they have to walk or cycle the hundreds of miles back home, because they'd just lost their jobs they couldn't buy food, and they starved to death on the roads. This will not happen at the scale it did in America right now because infrastructure to support people is better. Absolute poverty is just wildly different. Claiming it will in the near future really ignores the precariousness of comrades RIGHT NOW in the global south.

        • grylarski [they/them]
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          4 years ago

          Agreed. I think it's bad in the west from the perspective that nobody really needs to live in the kind of poverty that people do, their immediate environments are easily capable of providing the support they need but choose not to.

          Trust me, people did say this kind of thing.