Quote from: FinneysTrueVision on August 03, 2025, 03:06:49 AM

These people are not living like kings. They are living in trailer parks addicted to drugs and dying of preventable diseases because they cannot afford medical care. The reason they vote for Trump is because he gave them an easy scapegoat for why they can’t buy nice homes and can’t feed their families without working multiple jobs while still having massive debt.

Instead of solving their problems, Trump actually ends up exacerbating them. Tariffs increase their cost of living and the few government benefits they did have are being taken away so a few billionaire owned corporations can extract more resources and get bigger tax breaks.

Yes, of course, I don't know why you didn't show me the images of the fentanyl zombies while you were at it. These people live in much worse conditions.

Misery grows for Venezuelans hit by power cuts

Cubans protest against food shortages and rising prices

I won't even mention North Korea, because there they can kill you outright if you don't applaud the leader enough.

But the difference is that in those countries you like so much, where there are no billionaires, more than 90% of the population are the ones who appear in the photo. You prefer widespread poverty to societies where there are many rich people, which is where the poor live better. So yes, if you exclude the most extreme cases, the poor in the richest countries live better than kings did three centuries ago, with the only difference being that they do not have people at their service.