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Counterpoint: imagine how good life would be in North America if we had kept the decent wages and high unionization rates past the 1980s
Then no one would be desperate enough to join the military. Jesus fuck it's like you people don't even think about the military.
While this is true (I assume), the share of people living in poverty is not the only important metric. Authoritarianism has been on the rise for a long time; look at the Freedom of the World report. Since 2006, every single year had more countries getting more authoritarian than countries getting less authoritarian:
How about by number of individuals in extreme poverty instead of a percentage of the population?
Yeah but they didn't have to worry about any of that.