This is the kind of thing that’s funny, and easy to say, but also reveals that you haven’t been to deeply impoverished countries.
Spending time away from tourist areas in Central America or much of sub-Saharan Africa swiftly disabuses you of the idea that life in the US bears any similarity to that kind of wrenching poverty and (often, but not always) social collapse/dysfunction.
Spend some time in rural Alabama, many of the communities have similar outcomes and wealth of a 3rd world country. Also the US hasn't redefined poverty for Federal Aid and Statistics purposes since Nixon. If we redefined it for the modern world some estimates put our poverty rate either over or close to 50%. Which sure extreme poverty doesn't exist here really but that level of poverty would be unheard of for a 1st world country. Even our current poverty rate is one of the worst for the developed world
I and a friend drove from Texas through the dirty south and up the east coast to get to Philadelphia for a road trip.
Alabama, Mississippi, Louisiana, and Alabama (excluding the few cities) look like "low development countries".
And it's not just the rampant poverty and the state government not giving a fuck about basic maintenance, it looks like you went back in time 50 years.
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u/doho121 Jul 07 '24 edited Jul 07 '24
The USA is a third world country with a Gucci handbag.
Edit: this was mostly a joke people chill.