• rickdg@lemmy.world
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    10 个月前

    It’s a mystery how the US belongs to a select group of contries with homongous GDP but lower life expectancy.

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      Inequality is like some of the worst developing world countries

      https://www.theguardian.com/books/2025/aug/05/progress-by-samuel-miller-mcdonald-review-humanitys-greatest-myth

      Inequality is soaring, with the 1% scooping up ever-larger shares of global wealth. These days, the US has a Gini coefficient – the most common international measurement of inequality – on a par with slave-owning Ancient Rome. Maternal mortality rates for American millennials are three times higher than those of their parents’ generation

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        10 个月前

        It’s always acceptable to kill a rich person.

        They only got rich by killing and exploiting poor people.

        Unless they renounce their wealth and give most of it away, kill them.

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      Why is the US dollar always worth less than the pound and the euro, if it’s this great functioning economy? I’ve never been able to work that one out.

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        Because the actual number doesn’t matter, only the change trajectory.

        Put it differently: A water melon costs more than a dollar. Still, a water melon doesn’t have a great functioning economy.