It’s not that we’re any more or less selfish than other countries… it’s that we haven’t been pushed to the brink yet.
I guarantee you that if we lived in Hong Kong every poster here would be out there with the protestors… because we’re exactly the kind of people the Chinese government would be planning to aggressively repress. That extradition law combined with the facial recognition tech they were rolling out was legitimately super super scary. People are scared for their lives and it justifies mass protests on an epic scale. We just aren’t there yet because we aren’t under that kind of threat.
Exactly. Except for the top 1%, we are all basically the working poor. I mean sure, we can go protest, but bills don’t get paid if we are not working. So yea, you could quit your job and go protest. Meanwhile, your boss will give your job to someone else and when you run out of money, you have no job to pay your bills.
I respectfully disagree. Americans, for the most part, are completely self absorbed and don’t know or don’t care how good they really have it comparatively.
