Kinda relative aint it tho the median br**ish person still has an income an order of magnitude higher than most countries in Africa almost 2 orders of magnitude in some cases and several times higher than most other countries in the periphery, so are they really not rich?
idk in my admittedly limited experience employers have been perfectly open about what they pay.
If u hate watch something video platforms will feed u more of it to get angry at because engagement is engagement, and thats great for them but bad for ur mental well being, if u want to avoid this sorta shit u have to go out of ur way to not watch it when u see it hit not interested on it that kinda shit, i promise as the kind of person who gets baited by this kinda shit it will make ur life better to not hate watch stuff.
why not corruption and criminality is the eu special the worse the crime the more yall love it, oh is that the problem? organ harvesting isnt bad enough? yall got used to doing all those genocides and crimes against humanity and now something which is merely horrific doesnt do it for u?
wow what a helpful and insightful comment.
ima be real with u i didnt even know there was a snowpircer tv show i thought this was about the movie, i thought it looked a bit weird but it has been a while since i saw the movie so i thought i was just forgetting things.
Also yeah For All Mankind completely fucking lost its mind after a while, i also had to stop watching it half way thru, for me it was the show trying to make me give a shit about the veteran guy’s struggle with the fact that he almost faced consequences for being a murderer in Korea, and talking about gulags it drove me nuts that they had russian guy tell an african american woman about how bad gulags are, years after the gulag system had already been abolished, just pure projection and delusion.
To play devils advocate and because i like this guys films… there is a reason the gulag system was abolished, some of them were pretty fucking bad. And also gulag has a common meaning which is beyond the reality of what they actually were, it would be careless to use it this way as a leftist but a reasonable mistake.
Poor people in Liberia also often can’t got to a market in Liberia to shop. Like i get what yall are getting at disabled, oppressed, or just plain unlucky people in the core do sometimes live worse than average people in the periphery, i understand the feeling that yall are trying to put out that being poor in the core is brutal and its true but, its not a sensible comparison, capitalism is just as brutal and oppressive to poor people in the periphery except even more so.
Look im not saying that things arent bad in the core and especially bad in some areas and for some people, just that a little perspective is called for here, britain is rich by world standards, by any metric it is rich, in the article they weren’t comparing britain to any country in Africa, or Latin America but another country in europe. Pretending it is not rich obfuscates the reality of imperialism, there are 2 categories of capitalist countries core and periphery and britain is solidly in the core.
Also while its clear cut when looking at things like food, its simply cheaper in the periphery (tho ill point out in my personal experience i have found food to almost always be cheaper in the core as percent of income), other necessities are more complicated, if u look at housing for example yes in the core it is expensive but its also higher quality than in the periphery, the poorest people in britain may be living in moldy apartments with roommates or several generations of their families, but the poorest people in the periphery are living in makeshift shacks with no utilities.
As for China they call themselves a developing country and they share some characteristics with developing countries but in many regards they are closer to developed countries, so they make for a poor comparison with the core especially because it is a much more fair an equal society, to put it simply there is a reason that “second world” was a useful category and it applies here.