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@Downvote God, note how I say rural. And this applies to more than just Ethiopia. Various African, central american, and Asian countries have poverty levels that we can't begin to understand living in the united States. But I'd much rather be indebted tens of thousands of dollars in the US than a dirt poor kid in Panama huffing glue to take away the pains of hunger.
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@Downvote God, of course there is poverty no matter where you go. But on a global scale, here in the US the poverty isn't nearly as bad. We have a significant amount of government assistance to help those people, especially kids. In the far outreaches of these other countries is where it gets terrible. What I said about the kids huffing glue was no exaggeration. A close friend of mine goes on a mission trip with his church to various central american countries every year. He tells me heartbreaking stories when he comes back of the level of poverty that exists there. Sure a lot of these countries have moderate to well of economies, but the gap in those countries is significant. So yeah, we have poverty in the US. But they can at least get 1 hot meal a day (most of them) the same cannot be said for so many others, sadly.
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@Darkblaze, the same things happen in America. Parts of Detroit didn't have water for a month. There are plenty of example of American poverty. Just because we are huge country does not me poverty is a problem. And like I said, if you are defining poverty by economic wealth, Americans are some of the poorest individuals in the world because we love our credit cards. But that's Symantecs. All I'm saying is that poverty is just as bad in parts of our country but that is easily overlooked because of our massive super sized size.
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@Downvote God, Maybe not Africa, but everybody in the US has it better than average North Koreans. Yes, the ones who are sent to labor camps because they complained about their sawdust portions. If you want to tell me that heavy debt and being educated is worse than eating sawdust daily, be my guest. But we'll both know that's a lie.
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@Downvote God, Well I suppose to start off I should mention that I am by no means disputing the fact that poverty in the US is a severe problem. However, the living conditions of the poverty-stricken in the US are better than the mildly poor in much of Africa, if only for the fact that at least the US has a functional government (queue flamewar). For goodness sake most poor Africans receive aid not from their respective governments but from Non-Governmental Organizations from developed Western countries; a problem in and of itself (look up Dependency Theory). There are numerous failed states in Africa where a central government is non-existent (Somalia, South Sudan, and the CAR primarily) because it has lost a monopoly on violence within it's borders. Next, I'd like to dispel the notion that economic growth (measured in Gross Domestic Product) necessarily directly causes a higher quality of living for the majority of a countries populace, which thus far seems to be in question in
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@Downvote God, Africa. For example, Nigeria, Africa's wealthiest nation with the twentieth largest nominal GDP (as measured by the International Monetary Fund) in the world also has a Human Development Index rating (which measures life expectancy at birth, quality and availability of education, and income per capita) of 0.514 as of 2015, the 152nd in the world. It is also plagued by ISIS's West African Province aka Boko Haram to the Northeast, which until recently exerted military dominance in at about 3 Nigerian provinces. So in conclusion, at least poverty in America is not defined by pervasive religious violence, warlords and child soldiers, weapons/drugs/human/sex trafficking, epidemics, starvation, and government inaction.
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@R2 LSD2, I think the big point he’s trying to make is in our society now, anybody and everybody complains about where they are at and what they have to deal with, whether that be a broke college student, which they chose to do btw, or a ceo of a big company, it seems nobody can be happy and everyone has to bit*h that it’s not enough or they are depressed blah blah. Negativeness is the new wave and me personally, am sick of hearing it.
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I'm gonna be that guy tha lays some hard truth. Many homeless people deserve to be in their situation. I volunteered in L.A. to help homeless get food and clothes, and I've met enough to know that they couldn't care less about work or advancing themselves. They just want stuff for free and aren't willing to work for it. One time we ran outta Capri suns and a couple of them were told to wait twenty minutes until they came by with more. They all were too lazy to wait, so they left. Also if you ask them what they wanted to be when they were younger, all of them had ridiculous unreal expectations of what they could do. Actor, singer, betting famous in general, or winning the lottery. Many of them made themselves homeless, i know it sounds harsh but it's fst too true.
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@Punny lad, umm no. I volunteered at LA on Cloud9 for 2 years at skid row I'm LA. Yes there are some lazy people that just gave up, but there are plenty of people that rolled the dice and came up short. Don't be an asshole because you have the privilege to make choices and they worked out. Not everyone is so lucky. For example, I met a single mom with 2 kids. She worked 2 jobs but just couldn't keep up with the rent. Bank foreclosed house. Boom homeless. Is she lazy? No.
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I know a lot of you guys are pc gamers, and on the off chance you could help, I recently downloaded risk of rain on steam, but when I start it up the audio plays normally but the screen freezes black. I can alt+tab out and back, and the screen changes to the title, but then it freezes again. I tried googling the problem, but I can't find anything. In the unlikely chance anyone can help me, I'll repay you by saying thank you
Broke college student working two dead end jobs to make ends meet? He needs higher dreams.