Quote:
|
Originally Posted by terriblecanyons
HERE and AFRICA are two different things. HERE, anyone has the opportunity to go out, get a job, and live on their own (for the most part... obviously not, in the current economy) (but that's beside the point). In Africa, people have NO CHOICE. They live in camps, waiting for the day they die - hunger, dehydration, being slaughtered by their own government or someone else's, and as far as I'm concerned, THAT is much worse than the whole capitalist idea of "needy". Our own country could use a LOT of work, sure, but obviously we're a lot better off than you'd like to think we are. You probably don't even know what it's like to be homeless, or starving. Imagine living that for your entire life.
|
I think the point of the poster's argument is to bring to light the MASSIVE gap between the rich and the poor in this country. Despite the fact that the United States is the richest country in the world, it still faces issues that some of the poorest countries face, even though there is plenty of money within the economy to fix it. Instead of that money circulating fairly throughout the nation, it is concentrated in the upper echelons, leaving some in dire conditions that are nearly impossible to get out of. A "shut up and be happy" attitude is exactly why these problems aren't being fixed. It really comes down to whether you want to be realistic and put food and people's bellies, or cling to the American dream.