• anticolonialist@lemmy.worldOP
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    2 months ago

    Still growing slower than China and they had wages that outpaced inflation unlike here. They haven’t had outrageous housing problems.

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        2 months ago

        Even if true, poverty is growing and the income gap is widening. The percentage of people living paycheck to paycheck is growing, the percentage of people that can’t afford their rent is growing, the homeless population is growing, with the fastest growing segment being the elderly. No amount of gaslighting from the government changes those numbers.

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          2 months ago

          And you think Russia and China are better on those fronts? We all have a similar Gini index, with China being the worst out of US, Russia, and China.