Anonymous #1 13h

probably not

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Anonymous #1 13h

Give enough dopamine hits to people they don’t want to rebel. Why strive for holding CEOs and billionaires accountable when I can go stand in line for a toy

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Anonymous #1 12h

Even comparing rebellions and insurgencies in the 21st century they met conditions that the average America is far from facing. We have to realize that, objectively speaking, American citizens on average earn higher wages than most of the world, have access to high quality healthcare (despite the awful trap of medical debt many find themselves in within our broken system, people still get treated effectively), and overall greater opportunities that don’t create a unified conscious that we-

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Anonymous OP 11h

Need to rebel against our government. We can’t relatively compare the past to the present without deeply analyzing how much more nuanced modern life is for the average citizen. I’m not gonna argue that a rebellion will never happen, but in the present day most people wake up, work, eat, sleep, and live their life fairly normally without much of a thought about revolting as the conditions are somewhat far from being met

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Anonymous OP 11h

The problem is not just material conditions, because despite having the highest GDP many Americans still experience outcomes we would consider third world. Just because they aren’t the majority doesn’t make their existence insignificant. The actual problem is hegemony and orthodoxy being used as mechanisms to maintain inequality.

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Anonymous #1 2h

Adjusted for purchasing power, American households in 1774 earned about $11,600/yr pretax. If you exclude enslaved people, ~$15,500/yr. Numbers for the Russian revolution are sparse but likely in the same ballpark. The modern median American household takes home $87,460 pretax.

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Anonymous #4 1h

“Many Americans still experience outcomes we would consider third world”. Genuinely what? No lmfao.

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Anonymous discotheque 21m

Tell me you've never faced systemic hardship without telling me. Housing and food insecurity are a real thing, an no it's not the victims' faults that our country very notably lacks a social safety net. That's something for people like you who are higher up the billionaire food chain to address because if you can stand here and question the existence of hardship, that means you don't face it.

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Anonymous #4 15m

You can delude yourself all you want but in no way are many Americans outcomes similar to that of people in Mali.

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Anonymous discotheque 6m

Nobody said Mali. You picked one of the poorest countries on earth so you'd win the comparison. The claim was that portions of the US see outcomes we associate with developing countries, and that is simply factual: about a third of Navajo Nation homes lack running water, and life expectancy in Oglala Lakota County, SD is roughly 20 years lower than in Summit County, CO. National averages hide that. Pointing it out isn't delusion, it's looking past the GDP number and thinking critically.

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Anonymous #4 6m

This is the global food security index.

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Anonymous #4 4m

Social welfare spending per capita

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Anonymous #5 2m

This is what food insecurity looks like INSIDE the United States. Not next to other countries.

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Anonymous #4 1m

Can you name a more representative third world country?

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Anonymous #5 1m

The GFSI scores national food systems, not households. It can't show who's going hungry. Feeding America's county map can. In 2024, food insecurity ranged from 6% in Oliver County, ND to 37% in Dimmit County, TX, and child food insecurity hit 45% in some places. One national color flattens all of that.

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Anonymous #4 1m

Access to clean water by country

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Anonymous #5 Just now

Look at your own table. US public social spending is 19.8% of GDP, below nearly every country ranked above it. It only hits 33.2% "net total" because that counts private spending, mostly employer health insurance. That's not a safety net, it's coverage you lose when you lose your job. And spending isn't outcomes. The US spends the most on healthcare and still has lower life expectancy than every country on that list.

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Anonymous #4 Just now

You have to look in how they measure food insecurity. There’s no standard measure

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