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America is now the most unequal society in the developed world. Our billionaires are the richest, and our poor people are the poorest of any functioning democracy on Earth (hartmannreport.com)

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[–] [email protected] 18 points 7 months ago

It was a shock to me how I actually had a better quality of life and standard of living in Saudi Arabia, which is why after 10 years in the US I decided to leave. The US does have more freedoms, specially the individualist kind, but in the day-to-day life I found myself more concerned catching up to bills than exercising any freedoms. In Saudi Arabia it was the opposite, I could think about what freedoms I was lacking because materially I had no worries.