A reminder that for all the inequities of American life, the poorest state in America — Mississippi — has nearly the exact same GDP per capita as the weathiest state in Europe, Germany with cheaper food and housing.
Americans on both the left and the right who stoke resentment for votes appear to have lost contact with the reality of the obscene material abundance that we all enjoy compared with the rest of the planet.
Generation Z is richer than any previous American generation was at the equivalent stage of their lives, not poorer.
The many diseases that we suffer from are mostly the self-inflicted wounds of abundance.
What we do with the opportunities we are given is up to us. We can all eat better, read more, and help those in need.
Pretending that those opportunities and the accompanying wealth they offer don’t exist is an obscene insult to the 90% of humanity that has to toil all their lives for basic subsistence at a level that Americans are too sheltered and self-involved to recognize.
The future is still being invented here. We will shape it together, either through our imagination and hard work or through cosplay resentment, willful ignorance and hate.
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