Comment by HeatrayEnjoyer
14 days ago
People die from inability to afford something as fundamental as healthcare in the US. You are poorer than any European ever could be.
14 days ago
People die from inability to afford something as fundamental as healthcare in the US. You are poorer than any European ever could be.
> You are poorer than any European ever could be
Are you talking about me, personally, or Americans in general? I suppose it doesn't really matter - you'd be wrong in either case. The median person in the poorest US state is richer than the median person in the UK, for example.
Most Americans grumble about paying for healthcare, and we are getting ripped off, but it's also very rare for someone to actually die because they can't afford it. Anyone in the top, say, 80% of American society has some form of employer-subsidized insurance.
> The median person in the poorest US state is richer than the median person in the UK, for example.
This is due to the garbage GDP numbers. Based on these, the quality of life in the Mississippi is better than in Japan. Not a single chance. The US numbers are highly inflated by the financial sector and real estate. It'll take a financial crisis and dethroning of US dollar to show how truly poor these places are.
There are multiple reasons that Japan is better than Mississippi, but "Japan is actually materially wealthier" is not one of them.
> some form
These words are doing some very heavy lifting.