Interesting how between Tocqueville and today, one of the highest-trust societies in the world turned into one of the lowest. Absolutely no tolerance for conflict or friction. Everything is either picket-fences norman rockwell painting or a crisis that calls for maximal response
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Really good essay! (Tho I'd probably mark all of western Europe and Japan as first world)
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Here's a simpler one - a poor man has more options to go from his house to his job in New Delhi than he does in Detroit.
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Valid points
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So the 4th world american who isn’t walking cross-country without food in pandemic times is worse off than Indians who are coz Indians got their fellow villagers who they’re connected to thru premodern kinship with them? Both are awful conditions, but not sure what’s worse
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