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    11 months ago

    “Our poor people are the poorest” sounds suspect to be honest - Haiti? Congo? If you count $200K in student loan debt as poorer than $0 across the board, sure, but if you go by actual quality of life, there’s no way.

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        11 months ago

        “our poor people are the poorest of any functioning democracy on Earth” - Does this mean that the author doesn’t count the developing world as functioning democracies, but does count all of the developed world as functioning democracies?