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  • Kayel@aussie.zonetome_irl@lemmy.worldme🗽irl
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    5 months ago

    I’m not arguing every country in those areas. My point is the joke doesn’t make sense as there’s large populations who believe this to be true.

    25℅ of my workmates are first or second generation USAians. They earn less here than they would in the US. By your logic, Australia is better place to live than the US.

    I mean, I don’t disagree.


  • Kayel@aussie.zonetome_irl@lemmy.worldme🗽irl
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    5 months ago

    It’s usually: well, we may be a neoliberal state with the resulting capitalist issues but let’s be thankful we’re not living in the US.

    For example, most recently I heard this in a conversation about growing wealth disparity.







  • I hang out with my cats.

    People have weird impressions of animal companions, especially cats, because they treat them poorly. You should raise animals like children: learn from a good cat parent directly and read up on evidenced-based books. It’s easy to see parallels with poor parenting: intergenerational poor parenting, nuclear families where the grandparents aren’t actively engaged in teaching how to parent, absent parents due to capitalisms unending grind.

    It takes patience, positive reenforcement, consistency, and commitment. But cats can be best friends.