A Certain Subsection Of Lemmy: “The Imperial Core™ makes life harder for the nations it exploits!”
Meme: “Life is harder in those nations.”
ACSOL: “Are you some kind of racist!?”
It’s really mind-boggling.
Also, ironically a bit ethnocentric to suggest that the challenges in the US or Europe are in any way on par with life in places like Brazil, India, Africa!
You miscatagorized the US Hard is the correct category.
Western, good.
Everything else, bad.
Africa is harder than Australia. Not even close.
maybe you just spawn in the middle of austrailia desert with nothing
Thinking I’m on easy mode and then getting hit in the face with bear mace while crossing UCLA’s campus.
Thinking I’m on hard mode while I drive my Bentley through Plettenberg Bay.
Easy, medium and hard mode are just how much money you’re born into.
I invested all my xp into sneak and went from medium to easy.
I know this is just a shit post but fuck is this eurocentric and a bit racist let me refer you to the world happiness rank. The Corruption Perceptions Index and This map of real GDP.
https://worldpopulationreview.com/country-rankings/happiest-countries-in-the-world
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Corruption_Perceptions_Index
I’m inclined to agree. While life is kinda good in Europe, it’s getting more and more difficult to lead a somewhat wealthy and happy life here. And now the fucking Nazis are on the rise again, it makes me sick. I’d absolutely prefer to live in NZ or Australia but I don’t want to tear my daughter away from her social surroundings just yet.
Here’s human rights index. Lots of different ways to measure things, none of them great.
https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/human-rights-index-vdem
Human development index matches decently except Australia
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human_Development_IndexOne of the big problems with HDI is that it fails to consider inequality and non-income material conditions; a country with 1 person making 1B/y and 999 people living in abject poverty gets the same per capita GNI as a country of 1000 people making 1m/y who have free housing, transport, and healthcare.
The latter obviously has better conditions for more people.
I thought hdi did take into account using the median instead of the mean metrics, but I’m not super familiar with how hdi is calculated.
There is a IHDI (inequality-adjusted Human Development Index):
Somos el mejor país de chile!
¡Es la verdad!
I’ve actually considered moving to Chile. How are things there?
Is complicated, every Chilean you ask will have a different opinion, but I think there are many reasons to think that chile will manage and there is hope for the future, you can make a post in [email protected], the Chilean community on lemmy too.
Also: were are you from?
Thanks for the tip! I’m from the Pacific Northwest of the United States. As things here start to look increasingly concerning, we’re considering our options.
A lot of Chileans don’t like chile, but IMO they just fall in the “neighbour has geener grass” fallacy, we have a lot of problems but we have a lot of the tools to fix them, tools that many other countries don’t.
I think that, provided you have studies or some money, chile is a great country to live, Chilean culture, at its core, has a lot of solidarity, people do think about other people, specially in a natural disaster.
The government, as much as they have done dumb shit, it’s generally competent in keeping the country afloat, they got everyone vaccinated from COVID very early for example.
Good infrastructure, public and private health, tons of natural beauty, is reasonably safe, even if less than in the past, yeah, I like chile, I think I’m lucky to have been born here, could have been a lot worse.
You may like chile too, I can’t say, but, specially if you hold on to an online US job (Chilean jobs pay way less) you should be pretty fine here as an American.
Thanks so much for taking the time to write this up. I just told my wife we’re moving to Chile and she thinks I’m crazy. Of course, lacking any context from here, that’s understandable.
https://freedomhouse.org/explore-the-map?type=fiw&year=2024
Freedom in the world index. IMO the best indicator of how easy it is to live in a specific place.
While I wouldn’t call this shitpost accurate and I myself don’t really like it, you can’t say that the rough simplified categories don’t have any base.GDP and GDP Growth are both useless metrics
Yeah they are. That is why I used Real GDP Growth. It is still not a great metric but it is a little better than GDP and GDP Growth.
First of all: haha, funny, your nickname is in the OP
Secondly: how are your links you referred us to showing that the joke made is eurocentric and racist? What’s real GDP growth (that’s what the map you linked showed) got to do with anything? Why is the corruption perception index any indication of how hard life is gonna be if you are born in a certain place? It doesn’t show how much corruption there is or the effects of said corruption, just how corrupt things are perceived as.
And regarding the happiness index… Have you looked at the page? It lists almost exclusively countries within Europe, so that would support the joke, would it not?
Here is the wiki article on Real GDP feel free. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Real_gross_domestic_product The take a way is you will see most of South America and parts of Africa are on par with the USA.
Weirdly enough it is very hard to get corrupt politicians, civil servants, etc to check the yes box for the question are you corrupt. So corruption perception is used, which is actually pretty accurate. The local population is pretty good at noticing when they’re being asked to pay a bribe or seeing that nepotism is present in government.
If you were to look at the ranked list you would find that Uruguay, Barbados, Bhutan, and Botswana. Are all ahead of Greece, Montenegro, Romanian, Bulgaria, and Hungry.
As for the happiness index did you actually scroll down to the full list? Yes most of the country you would expect to be high on the list. There are plenty of outliers, Costa Rica is higher than the USA; Uruguay is higher than France; El Salvador is higher than Italy, Malta, Spain, Estonia, and Poland; Honduras and China are higher than Croatia, Greece, and Bosnia and Hertzegovina. I am sure there are more but I hope you get how it does not support the joke.
Is eurocentric and a little racist because it clearly states that the only countries worth living in are European or North America (except Mexico which apparently doesn’t exist). This meme is basically saying living in Europe or the United States is the best and everywhere else is a shit hole country. Yet looking at the actual data we can see that is not true.
You’re overemphasizing the nil racism in the meme. If anything, it highlights empathy that life can be harder being born in a less developed country and that that isn’t fair.
There’s more than penguins in Antarctica.
What if I was a scientist? Or a piece of lab equipment?
what if im oil?
American armed forces enters the chat
uh oh
Maps without Japan.
And New Zealand
Fuck Japan.
I’m pretty sure significant portions of the medium and hard difficulties could be flip-flopped and most of Australia’s population doesn’t live in the PvE warzone you’re probably picturing in your head.
Life in the US is only easy for a small handful of people. Most of us consider it a good year if we got through it without crushing medical debt and retained all of our teeth. Is a third world country passing itself off as a first world country.
At least US families can expect all their children not to die by tuberculosis or malaria or something.
And fuck Australian magpies.
On the other hand, US families can also expect their kindergarteners to have to participate in active shooter drills. Because, you know, active shooters are a thing. Screw that.
If you look at statistics, it’s extremely unlikely for any school to have a shooting. 99.99999% of children from ages 0 to 18 in the USA are not harmed by firearms.
So you can waste your time and sanity worrying about that or just live without fear and find what makes you happy in life. Either way you and your kids will be safe so it’s your choice to be crippled by irrational fear or not.
Or we can actually do something to prevent it from ever happening. The math is not hard. No guns = no gun violence.
That’s just a fantasy that will never happen though. Guns are already here in the number of hundreds of millions, and we have the right to own them, and we choose to keep them.
Guns over children. Except if they are not born. Nice.
Assuming the mother/baby don’t die in the hospital waiting room bathroom because the hospital refused treatment.
Hospitals generally won’t refuse treatment to anyone as far as I know, even if you tell them straight up at check in that you won’t be able to pay them. You’ll still get treated, provided they have the space and staff available to treat you.
However, afterward, that debt will haunt you like a vengeful ghost for the rest of your life.
I believe it’s a reference to the problems caused by the fucked up abortion laws going on recently, not about payment (though that’s its own concern). From a quick search:
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024/apr/19/pregnant-women-denied-care-us-hospitals
One woman miscarried in the restroom lobby of a Texas emergency room as front desk staff refused to admit her to the hospital.
Another related issue is that rural areas, especially in right wing hellholes that have passed such laws, are increasingly short on access to obestrician services and doctors of that specialty. Some people who used to live 40 miles from the nearest hospital with Ob/Gyn now live 100 miles away and lack transportation.
Fair point, I didn’t even make that connection. Seems obvious now in hindsight.
I get our healthcare system sucks but it isn’t worse than countless children dying of malaria.
Tuberculosis is still world’s deadliest infectious disease. Mostly because the healthcare in developing countries lack access to the necessary treatment for it.
TB is a solved problem in developed countries such as US. Barely anyone gets it anymore, let alone die from it.
Tb is back, haven’t you heard?
When are we talking about, here? Much of Europe is a disease-ridden mosquito swamp if you go back a few thousand years.
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Australia has a somewhat threadbare welfare state, though is more of a social democracy than the UK. And snakes and spiders are easier to avoid than Tories.
Have you ever been fucked up by an Emu?
Trick question, Emus don’t leave behind survivors. Or witnesses.
They leave witnesses.
They just trust the drop bears to hold up their end of the bargain.
You are several orders of magnitude more likely to be killed by another human than an animal or insert in Australia.
Well that just makes sense.
Through selection pressures the only surviving Australians are highly venomous.
The Galapagos deserves its own level at the top of this. It’s literally, “don’t eat any green apples you find on the island, okay?”
What??
The Galápagos is pretty much paradise. If you can, check it out some time.
Oh I get the apples now
Mexico is so hard-as-fuck that was not included in the list.
I mean, neither was new Zealand.
It was a toxic server, PvP only. Glad it was banned
Filled with hackers giving themselves infinite money glitches.
Those fuckers are still here tho, all friends with the admins. Fucking fuckers
Japan, Greenland, Cuba, New Zealand too apparently
New Zealand is just happy to be on the map.
Wooo!!! We’re visible
I’m in Canada, and I want to get those stickers that are cut in the shape of new Zealand, so I can add it to every public map I see.
… New Zealand as a service.
I used to work with a guy that moved from Mexico city after his favourite cafe got gunned down by the cartel, his neighbor’s family got beheaded, and a family friend’s daughter got kidnapped.
Japan is unlocked after NG+. Korea (North and South) is sold separately as DLC.
