• mako@lemmy.today
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    19 hours ago

    But what’s your point? Are people making $60k/year causing world hunger through artificial scarcity or is it the greed and mental illness of the capitalist class?

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      6 hours ago

      The math doesn’t even math though. It’s 80 million people, globally. Are we to believe no other country contributes to this number? The entire rest of the “Western world” doesn’t contribute at all?

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        3 hours ago

        i’m not sure, but the middle class in my third world country doesnt have even close to the buying power of the western middle class.

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          That’s not how purchasing power parity works. You compare the incomes with the same power, no matter what class they are in their regional economy.