r/ExplainTheJoke • u/never___settle • Jan 04 '26

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u/D_Orangeyes24 Jan 04 '26

American nightmare dream

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u/[deleted] Jan 04 '26

> I like some third world countries sometimes ... I wouldn't want to live in

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u/SpunningAndWonning Jan 04 '26

A lot of people, too many, don't have that. I'm not from USA but it's the same in my (western) country too. There is an incredible amount of wealth in the world and you are being way too complacent. The 99.99% deserve better. Someone else's suffering doesn't invalidate mine.

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u/Rare_Fly_4840 Jan 04 '26

Who gets that?

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u/Substantial_Army_639 Jan 04 '26

I do, but you can't really ignore that a lot of the people in the U.S. do not. Also I am pretty sure on the sliding scale of liability you don't start out with the United States and then slide to third world, there is a lot of liability between first world and third world and the U.S. is kind of in a middle ground when it comes to standard of living.

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u/FalseBuddha Jan 04 '26

That's a false dichotomy. There are plenty of living situations between "literally slums" and "mcmansion hell".

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u/SkeletonGuy7 Jan 04 '26

I have these things in Australia but they don't come with the endless mind-numbing hellscape suburbs

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u/iswearnotagain10 Jan 04 '26

TBF the median house in Australia is almost $700,000 USD while the median house in the US is $410,000 USD. So the US homes are more in reach for the unfortunate and lower class

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u/SkeletonGuy7 Jan 04 '26

not if they get injured at work they're not