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.
Yeah, I compeletely believe you. Maybe that was part of what made it so unsettling- seeing this piece of the overexploited world brought home like that, and my dumb ass couldn't figure out how to process it.