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by boxed on Monday May 05, 2025 @10:03AM
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Same reason they have expensive university, extremely expensive healthcare, for profit prisons, etc, I guess. There's a dog-eat-dog mentality over there which is quite puzzling to us Europeans.
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> mentality
individualism; I think people in our crazy state of states tend to be only interested in what they want, and no other interests
Europe has quite a bit individualism too. Maybe even more when people can freely express themselves without judgment, you know.
But to have individualism for everybody, everybody needs to eat and have a dignified life.
Cutting less lucky people's food and healthcare for penny pinching, or worse religiously followed ideology isn't individualism. It is sadist selfishness. It kills individuality of large swaths of people for a tiny minority's extravagant and boringly repetitive habits.