US Politics on Yik Yak | ive been traveling a lot lately and i gotta say, its made me both love and hate the US for reasons i didnt realize before for starters, we’re actually rich. like financially, we are very well off. we own way more than most ppl in other countries. we also

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ive been traveling a lot lately and i gotta say, its made me both love and hate the US for reasons i didnt realize before for starters, we’re actually rich. like financially, we are very well off. we own way more than most ppl in other countries. we also

Anonymous 1d

have rhe best access to amenities like water, ac, heating etc however, we are poor in other ways. we lack beauty in our surroundings. any beauty we have is usually reliant on nature or street art. we also lack community, culture, and downtime

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Anonymous 1d

Class stratification

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Yeah, we have the biggest economy in the world, but that wealth isn't evenly shared. We're a rich country with a thin social safety net, so a lot of people live with outcomes you'd expect somewhere much poorer. And I'd argue the two halves of your post are connected: the same system that concentrates wealth also eats up our time, isolates us, and treats art and culture as luxuries. We got rich partly by trading away the community and downtime humans actually need.

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#1 1d

ok this is the third commenter ive seen today use a colon correctly are u the same person or am i in groundhog day

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also i agree with that. we have more people completely unsupported than in places like france, the uk etc. but middle class people will tend to have more here than in those places. they’ll have ac, more access to food, and just generally be able to buy more even on a stretched income

Anonymous

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Could be… I like using colons and I’ve been commenting today

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That makes sense. I wish our government wasn’t cancerous