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Re:Why America's economy is soaring ahead of its rivals by Cumpiler69 on Thursday December 05, 2024 @11:30AM (#42329678)
Yeah they have, but being broke poor in those developing nations sucks much more than in the US. Their development is mostly reflected in the lifestyle of middle and upper class not of the poor. You have no idea how good the poor in the US have it compared to large parts of the world.
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Re:Why America's economy is soaring ahead of its rivals by Jensson on Thursday December 05, 2024 @12:06PM (#42330098)
You said luxury life, that is different than saying the poor in USA are better off than the poor in for example China. American poor don't live as well as luxury life in China.
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Re:Why America's economy is soaring ahead of its rivals by Pigalowda on Thursday December 05, 2024 @12:49PM (#42330519)
Why use China? I’d rather be poor in the US than rich in DRC, Sudan, Yemen, Libya, eritrea, Somalia, Bangladesh, Pakistan, Afghanistan, Syria, Haiti, etc etc

Using the second largest economy which has many mega cities you can tour on Google earth and plenty of millionaires and billionaires isn’t really the right comparison. Like using Japan or Germany.

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Re:Why America's economy is soaring ahead of its rivals by Jensson on Thursday December 05, 2024 @01:09PM (#42330731)
You said 80% of the planet, China + first world nations is much more than 20% of the planets population. If you said 50% it would have been different.
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Re:Why America's economy is soaring ahead of its rivals by Pigalowda on Thursday December 05, 2024 @01:13PM (#42330774)
Did he say 80%? That’s definitely pretty high. China by itself is already about 20% of the world population.
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Re:Why America's economy is soaring ahead of its rivals by Jensson on Thursday December 05, 2024 @01:24PM (#42330915)
The part I quoted was: "That's a luxury life for 80% of the planet."

So yeah he said that.

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Re:Why America's economy is soaring ahead of its rivals by Pigalowda on Thursday December 05, 2024 @01:35PM (#42331039)
Well, 71% of the world’s surface is ocean and about 10% is desert. So that’s over 81% of the planet. I think we can now both agree that you are completely wrong and I am completely right.
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