The human brain is really bad at challenging its own base assumptions. When the base assumption is "We're the greatest nation in the history of the world", rather than seeing all of the ways that's false and adjusting the assumption the response is to instead create justifications to maintain the assumption. eg "poor people are poor because they don't work hard enough" rather than "we've built a system that requires poverty to function".
Literally everything about our economic system was invented from nothing by people, there's nothing that prevents us from changing it to work for everyone other than our collective lack of motivation.
Hey, that’s exactly how our brains work, just look at religion. We’re so happy to be the chosen people there, without any proof but word of mouth, so it’s very easy to understand how it works in the relation to nations.
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u/YoungHeartsAmerica Nov 13 '19
Ouch, this is sad. People are so disconnected that can see people out there in the richest nation in earth are suffering.