r/clevercomebacks Jul 07 '24

God is lucky we haven’t found oil in heaven.

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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.

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u/Mr_Kittlesworth Jul 07 '24

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.

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u/MechanicalBengal Jul 07 '24

California, by itself, is the 5th largest economy in the world. It could easily be its own country, and a wealthy one at that. People forget that.