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these living standards are actually really cozy
Winning the lottery to afford basic first world living standards. THE AMERICAN DREAM.
I was assuming hed just moved to Europe
In Europe, only select dentist services are free, and varies from country to country. The fear of losing a tooth to not being able to afford restorative services (which are only basic ones supported if at all) after a regular checkup is pretty common in Europe.
checks Powerball ticket
…fucking bullshit.
Ahhh basic human needs being met. The sign of a lottery winner if ever I saw one. At least here in America.
What a shithole. You all deserve better.
Then they should vote for it.
They don’t really have the option. It’s not like they live in a proper democracy.
USAians don’t have options? That has to be a joke. During the presidential elections, they had Bernie for decades, they had Warren for a long time too, and they had many others - that’s only at the national level. At the local level they still have many options.
USA isn’t the only country with options making dumb choices. Germany, France, Denmark, Sweden, Hungary, Poland, Czechia, Spain, Italy… we don’t suffer from a lack of options. We suffer from a lack of unwillingness and understanding to choose those options.
People like to conveniently forget about gerrymandered voting maps and the ever growing influence rich people have over the govt through lobbying and bribes.
The US has been an oligarchal democracy for decades now where the individuals vote means nothing as everything will be decided behind the scenes by the “elite” class.
“We face opposition, we should just give up.” Great thinking there. Don’t be so weak-willed. If you believe you have no options, there no options shall there be.
Yes, we face overwhelming odds. Yes, the rich have outsized power. But if all you do is go “welp, nothing I can do, may as well spend the day jerking off”, then you can’t expect change. Change doesn’t come easily either. It takes decades to build a movement, but a movement can’t be built off of “meh, why try? my self-fulling prophecy of doing nothing leading to no change is being fulfilled”.
This wasn’t supposed to come off as “defeatism” just that people ignore these truths and want to act like the majority of people aren’t being blatantly
ignoredsuppressed.
It’s almost like capitalism isn’t the best economic model for most people.
If I won the billion+ Powerball the sign would be the absence of my dogs and I, along with all the stuff in my bedroom disappearing and my phone left on the kitchen counter.
I keep forgetting you guys in the US don’t have free access even to dental care.
Like, of this meme only the two left panels make sense in most of Europe, and only because the waiting lists for therapy places is rather long.
That’s right. “Health insurance” here in the US doesn’t cover eyes or teeth! Those are luxury body parts that you don’t REALLY need to live.
Edit: Well… TECHNICALLY both of them would be covered if you choked on one, for example. Or maybe if you caught a stick through the eye into your prefrontal cortex. But vision, reconstruction, and really anything to do with teeth while they are attached to your skull parts is not covered.
This makes me so sad. :(
You could even afford to turn off the orphan crushing machine for a few minutes.
Yup.
you need more than the lottery for these
