• Lauchs@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    Except if you live in the first world and your material conditions are better than 99% of all the people who have ever lived…

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      1 year ago

      This point is really stupid and overcooked. Even if it’s true which I don’t think it is, who cares? So what? What does it even mean? It’s such an obvious and dull example of whataboutism. It’s like telling a man who’s just lost a foot that vastly more people over the course of history have lost an arm. Why would you bring that up, even if it’s true which it probably isn’t?