Comment on Why is the US not considered a third world country?

scytale@lemm.ee ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

• markr@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  You’ve doctored your first two points to avoid the fact that widespread corruption and crumbling infrastructure are in fact a feature of the USA. That said, obviously we are not a ‘third world’ country, nor a ‘developing or under-developed’ country. We are, instead in our own special category of fucked. We have an absolutely giant economy, but as we have decided politically to disinvest in all of our public sectors, either by privatization or under-funding, we are rapidly becoming dysfunctional. Add to that the huge global reclaiming of surplus value from workers wages to plutocrats profits, and we are, as is obvious, in a political crisis shared by the rest of the neoliberal democracies.

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  • scytale@lemm.ee ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Nope, my first two points did not change from my edits. I never said corruption or crumbling infrastructure isn’t widespread in the US. I just said that not only do both exist in third world countries as well, but it’s even worse.

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  • DragonTypeWyvern@midwest.social ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Love the privilege on display

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    • Vendetta9076@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Americans want to be from a third world country so bad

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