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Five years after killing a journalist in cold blood, Saudi Arabia is stronger than ever (www.theguardian.com)

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[-] rambaroo@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Who is doing so much better though? It seems like most countries have similar issues and it's not really a West vs East thing. Costa Rica seems like one of the nicer places to live in the world right now, but it's a "Western" country and it's also tiny.

I look at Eastern countries like Korea and Japan and see a ton of problems with workers being abused and authoritarian legal systems. Better than the US in some ways but worse in others. I would rather live in the US despite the worse healthcare cause I don't want to work 12 hours a day.

[-] zephyreks@lemmy.ml -1 points 1 year ago

US labour law exists in spite of democracy, not because of it. Also, I think it's hard to argue that Korea and Japan aren't Western democracies (in that, they value Western democratic ideals and structure their governments around the Western concept of democracy).