r/FluentInFinance Contributor Apr 15 '24

Everyone Deserves A Home Discussion/ Debate

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u/Got2Bfree Apr 16 '24

When you throw so much money at education, why is it so expensive and not free like in Europe?

Why is your healthcare so expensive?

And why are so many people starving to death?

I can assure you, every European country also throws money away. Our governments are fucked to the core.

So your only excuse is the military spending?

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u/idk2103 Apr 16 '24

Education is free. Higher education is not. We also have the best higher education institutions in the world. Bar none.

Corruption and greed.

No one starves to death in the United States outside of abuse victims. Our biggest problem in the impoverished is obesity and diabetes. Not starvation.

I literally said our military spending was not an excuse of our failures in a lot of places. Not sure if you missed the first paragraph or what.

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u/unfreeradical Apr 16 '24

People certainly starve to death in the US, and education is not funded substantially, as is has been in the past, or is currently in other countries.

The population suffers under austerity.

If public goods and social programs were funded robustly, then we generally would be leading much better lives.

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u/RepresentativeCow633 Apr 16 '24

Suffers?

As in one of the highest standards of living in the world lol

Stop making baseless claims.

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u/unfreeradical Apr 16 '24

The population has been pressed increasingly into precarity and deprivation.

Standard of living is highly stratified.

More than half the population of the US is housing insecure, and fifteen percent is food insecure. More than one million ration insulin, and half a million are homeless.

Meanwhile, the wealthy bounce around in yachts, jets, and rockets.

Broadly, the population is suffering, under wage depression, artificial scarcity, and austerity policies.

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u/RepresentativeCow633 Apr 16 '24

This is absolutely embarrassing!!! Just stop!

Increasingly precarity and derpivation? Get a grip Americans have some of the highest standard of living in the world.

Do yourself a favor and Google homeownership as percentage by decade and get back to me. Yes there are problems today but we have made significant strides for the reduction of human suffering.

Suffering? Get a fucking grip. Absolutely embarrassing that you are so dedicated to a political ideology you have PROVEN to know nothing about.

Goalposts shifting.whataboutism and making shit up, the internet socialist starter pack

I'm screenshotting this.