I guess if you think about it we are indeed out of touch with their reality.

Isn't competition great uwaaaaaaaaa

Basically a social democrat.

Tough luck, bucko. My lawn patch in the middle of the desert that I use solely for ostentatious display of wealth and not to cultivate isn't going to stay green by itself.

It's in the same vein as the YouTube apology videos that go "I'm sorry for offending you"

Someone post the Reagan meme

Sure, he might have dronestriked all those civilians, but he could string together a coherent sentence!

I thought capitalists loved competition?

how do you become so dead that you reject the basic human urge to help other people, to let people help you?

Individualism has made people think that it's part of human nature to not help eachother but rather only yourself. It's depressing how cynical my society has become.

Exactly. They aren't moving to capitalist imperial periphery countries, those that have been ravaged and left poor after decades of exploitation, but rather the imperial core itself where the wealth is flocking and where someone with an education and not under the boot of debt can have a comfy life. I can see why someone would defect from East to West Germany for economic reasons alone. It's good to point out when people bring up fleeing from these countries that they aren't exactly moving to Nigeria or El Salvador or India.