One of the wealthiest? Like seriously?! 🤣 You guys are in debt so much that you can barely pay your interests. The only way to get out of the debt will be to win a war or debase your currency. Billionaires don’t count cause they don’t give a shit about the common man…
The lack of privacy is to keep you from doing drugs and having sex in the stalls. We shame people out of bad behavior with a 1 inch gap in the door. Spoiler: it only works on people who would already avoid such behaviors in public toilets.
Yo I did the same. I promised myself I wouldn’t have kids until I could buy a house. I had a partner leave me because I wasn’t ready yet. My boy is almost 2 and I’m so happy I waited.
Please let me clarify. If a person has never lived in a third world country but they use the term disparagingly as if they know exactly what it’s like, it’s not precise. America’s problems are bad, problems anywhere are problems yes, but to label a country like America with a term like that? It shows a lack of awareness and frankly (but without offense), it’s perceived that people stretch the term to make a snazzy remark.
Out of curiosity who was using the third world country term disparagingly? I couldn’t find anything in the comments or the article? I know people often misunderstand the first world, second world and third world terms I’m just seemingly missing that here?
EDIT: Never mind my comment searching skills weren’t very good. :)
If you’re going to be this pedantic about the use of a term, then you should know that you’re talking about a developing country. And that the usage of the term “third world” at this point is inherently disparaging because it’s deviated from the original meaning to be used in exactly the context you’re complaining about. Because the term “third world country” in its original context has nothing to do with economic status, position in global politics, or large scale national problems it was originally used in context to their position in WW2. It only exists in that connotation as a derogatory term.
I don’t know about derogatory. Language evolves and changes, and at some point the term ‘third world’ entered common usage as being equivalent to ‘developing nations’. I remember being in primary school 30 years ago and the term was used that way, and definitely not in a derogatory sense.
There’s an inherent negative connotation with third world, and that’s why usage is transitioning to developing. If it didn’t have a negative connotation, a softer term wouldn’t be necessary.
According to some people who replied a comment I made, this wouldn’t affect the fertility rate. Not sure how they came to that conclusion.
But the thing I mention is that even with this barrier, the US fertility rate is bigger than most other developed countries which have paid parental leave. Of course there are other things, but this is weird for me
Inside america are two americas. One is full of people pretending this place doesn’t suck shit the other is little piggies who roll around in the shit and love it.
The real answer: a lot of america never fully industrialized and high birth rates in some places are part of that.
Last time i had a discussion on R*ddit, someone kept defending their messed up heapthcare. I assume this falls into the same categoryx because at the end of the day…
…but taxes are lower!
Their argument was also that eceryone has insurance. 😂
Thing is, they number crunched, the average person would pay dozens more in taxes, and thousands less in insurance costs… There’s literally no reason to not do Single Payer outside of the Health Insurance racket wouldn’t like it.
US health insurance os indefensible, suitable only for creating additional profit-seeking middlemen.
I can’t totally avoid politics here but attempts to improve the situation quickly dissolve into partisan bickering. My state offers what they consider “universal healthcare” and which does reach a much higher percentage of the people than most states do. It’s also better subsidized, but yeah, real expensive compared to most of the world. One state can’t change the industry alone
34, I have had health insurance very rarely. It was expensive last time I looked at their site for me. Most jobs lately I’ve had have been contracts so insurance isn’t really available through them. Spent 1.5 on my last contract before they brought me on to the company. Less than 6 months later they laid off/fired our division (~80 people) and outsourced it to another company. The job hunt has been grueling.
I’ve lived in NH and Mass my whole life. As far as I’m aware the states both guarantee 12 weeks of unpaid leave. Your work can opt to pay (at a reduced weekly income) but they can also tell you to pound sand. And seeing as how many people live off week to week paychecks…
I didn’t have much leave back when we had kids, but there’s definitely something. Complicated but something.
My reading is one law requires up to 8 weeks protected unpaid for both men and women, except you can use vacation. Protected as in they can’t fire you.
And another provides for paid time for that and other medical or family needs. I really don’t understand the distinction except there are different eligibility requirements and companies are allowed to provide for paid time outside this program
Through PFML, if you work in Massachusetts you’re likely eligible to take up to 26 weeks per year of paid, job-protected time off from work when you need it most, so that you can focus on your health and the health of your family.
My payed time off would be used up in a week. They might be considerate and keep me in payroll after that expired, but I’d be without pay once that PTO ran out.
Let’s see $1 million medical bills, no health insurance, no paid medical leave, no consumer protection laws, trans genocide attempts, corporations are “people,” a minimum wage of $7.25 and much more.
I liked when Biden finally decided to suspend the military budget for the next 5 years, seeing as the U.S. is already operating a *behemoth *of an army no one dares confront. So the $5 trillion dollars they will now redirect to the public over the next 5 years is going to make a monstrous wave of positivity for the US for decades to come. /s
I know OP said “paid” and FMLA says “unpaid” but it lets you use sick time and even short term disability time (which I believe full time jobs must offer), which are paid
But a lot of companies make you use up your PTO, including vacation BEFORE you receive your parental leave. The US is pathetically behind at this point. It’s shameful honestly and that’s saying something as a moderate.
FMLA is job protection and is not about pay. Not every job offers sick time. I don’t know what percentage of salary STD covers. IIRC FMLA is only applicable to larger companies.
People shouldn’t have to dig into sick time or take Short Term Disability after having a baby just to maybe get paid for a few days or weeks, maybe at 100% if they’re lucky.
America has big issues but to compare it’s magnitude of issues, and quantity population affected is a slap in the face to those experiencing life in a real “third world” country.
TBH, I’m currently staying in a third world country and I feel safer here than in US. YMMV, there’s a lot of third world country as the main definition of third world country is a country that’s not aligned to any political bloc in the Cold War, the West being First World and the Soviet bloc being Second World, hence nations not being aligned to any of those bloc is a Third World.
No, it was the cold war. The First World was US/West Aligned, the Second World aligned with the Soviet Union/Communism, and the Third World trying to sit out and not take sides.
The Second World would have been the soviet block. There is no second world today. The third world though is real. By definition the US will be always first world as the first world is defined as the pro-wester with heavy industry. No matter how people live in this world.
I don’t think very many people use those definitions for first/ second/ third world anymore. The colloquial definitions of “first world = rich second world = not so rich but not so poor and third world = poor” are more useful anyway due to as you say the Soviet Union not existing anymore so nobody can align with it.
Yeah, back in the cold war that was actually the common perception anyway even while it was initially meant differently. So no harm done using this easy adaption.
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