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Re:Fewer than 40% of New Yorkers earn a living wage by gaterin on Tuesday January 10, 2023 @10:51AM (#34326668)
It's good to see people finally admitting America is incapable of being greater than Bangladesh or Ethiopia.
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Re:Fewer than 40% of New Yorkers earn a living wage by lovecg on Tuesday January 10, 2023 @12:05PM (#34327944)
It’s delusional to think that a lot of people from those countries you mentioned wouldn’t want to swap lives with one of those oppressed NYC workers in a second.
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Re:Fewer than 40% of New Yorkers earn a living wage by cloutchaser on Tuesday January 10, 2023 @06:04PM (#34332742)
Yet from most discourse I see it seems a lot of people actually believe it’s better in Ethiopia.

A few years ago Venezuela was held up as the poster child of how to defeat capitalism by the same people.

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