• Sauerkraut@discuss.tchncs.de
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      18 hours ago

      On paper only. Two parents working a combined 90 hours a week to own a tiny piece of socially isolated car dependent urban sprawl is dystopian as fuck.

      Europeans are much poorer individually by American metrics, but that is because they sacrifice individual wealth for collective wealth. They have great cities that they fight to make better for everyone.

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      24 hours ago

      Indeed. I have said a few times on here, usually in response to some rugged individualism argument, that anybody with the ability to read my words you are currently reading is among the luckiest humans to ever have lived. And even pretty high up there among the current living population.

      Some people are so addicted to complaining that they have no perspective, at all.