According to the 1987 World Factbook, Soviets had a higher caloric consumption on average than Americans. Also, America has a higher poverty rate than China. Not even per capita, TOTAL. THERE ARE MORE PEOPLE LIVING UNDER THE POVERTY LINE IN A “FIRST WORLD COUNTRY” than there are in a country that spent centuries being a superexploited backwater shithole, lost literal hundreds of millions in wars since the 1800s, had all their gold reserves stolen by Chiang Kaishek and was blockaded and sanctioned by the US for decades in the hopes that everyone would starve, and has 4x the population. Capitalist efficiency, amirite?
According to the 1987 World Factbook, Soviets had a higher caloric consumption on average than Americans. Also, America has a higher poverty rate than China. Not even per capita, TOTAL. THERE ARE MORE PEOPLE LIVING UNDER THE POVERTY LINE IN A “FIRST WORLD COUNTRY” than there are in a country that spent centuries being a superexploited backwater shithole, lost literal hundreds of millions in wars since the 1800s, had all their gold reserves stolen by Chiang Kaishek and was blockaded and sanctioned by the US for decades in the hopes that everyone would starve, and has 4x the population. Capitalist efficiency, amirite?
Saving this for when I get into an argument with a lib