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    1. NRohirrim on

      Also many European statistics are skewed down by Russians. When comparing USA against only the EU + Schengen Area, the difference is even more apparent.

    2. huunnuuh on

      There aren’t a lot of shootings or opioid overdoses or deaths from obesity in truly poor countries because the people can’t afford those things and they just aren’t present. It’s not objective poverty. It’s an industrialized dystopia capable of making things but which makes the wrong things. Like the old USSR sort of maybe. Second world country.

    3. Narrow-Incident3158 on

      Does anyone know why the obesity rates in Turkey are so high?

    4. VividPath907 on

      You should go and take a look at their infrastructure. Airports, airports public transportation, public transportation, drainage on important shopping streets.

      And also the locking things up in supermarkets. You look at it, all those details and you do not think “first world” or “superpower”.

    5. Look up the definition of First, Second and Third world. The US can never be a Third world country (or Second).

    6. Ok_Astronaut_8626 on

      Post this in r/conservative and they will explode.

    7. OneAlexander on

      Half of the posts/videos/stories from Americans on Reddit tend to make you wonder “how can a country so stupid be so rich?”

    8. Flaky-Jim on

      >USA seems to be the 3rd world country (but with money)

      Money *for the wealthy*. That’s part of the problem.

    9. thrillho145 on

      If you take away the mega wealthy, the US looks really awful at pretty much any statistic you look at 

    10. BernardMarxAlphaPlus on

      That makes no sense, genuinely people in poorer countries are not as fat, so this map makes sense.

    11. Thormynd on

      USA is a 3rd world country with money. This is probably the most accurate description ive seen.

      The country has money, but it is not evenly distributed. Those without money live in 3rd world country conditions: poor education, poor health care, poor housing, poor food, etc.

      Trump is making this even worst.

    12. WaySlayer on

      What about the debt in USA where it seems normalized to have debt on ceeditcards. In Europe when you buy a car, you pay for it, no need for payment plans. They are an option but paying stuff off is what is normalized. And health care costs. Protection of workers, cant fire them in Europe without good reason. Customer/consumer protection. Minimal wages, no need to depend on tips.

      Especially more vulnerable people are better of in Europe.

    13. GotSwiftyNeedMop on

      Where is Greenland?

      It’s a huge country in the Atlantic ocean

      Though tbf Canada has also disappeared but Greenland is technically part of Europe

    14. Vegetable_Vanilla_70 on

      Most third world countries treat people who are admitted to hospital emergency rooms.

      In America only ones with the right insurance or cash are treated. The others are shown the door

    15. Better_Explorer_9272 on

      They’ll still deny it has anything to do with unlimited gun access (2nd slide)

    16. sparksAndFizzles on

      The US faces some uniquely destructive problems, but calling it a ‘third world country’ is inaccurate. It’s a wealthy country with an increasingly dystopian, corporate-driven food culture that’s been getting progressively worse for public health since the 1950s. Decades of aggressive marketing and profiteering have normalised cheap, low-quality, unhealthy food as the signature dish almost. Access to fresh food is nowhere near what it should be, and a massive income divide means entire communities are trapped in food deserts with little choice.

      The high homicide rate is driven by gun culture—something uniquely American with no real equivalent elsewhere. And the incarceration rate is just as cultural. There’s a draconian, almost Victorian attitude towards crime—minor offences get hammered with disproportionate sentences. GDP figures don’t tell you much either; it’s all about where the money goes and who actually benefits.

    17. Mundane_Violinist860 on

      With all the carbs in pizza and pasta you would think Italians are fat. I know a lot of Italian guys, nobody is fat. Why is that? What’s the catch?

    18. maxis2bored on

      That’s because USA isn’t rich. Only the people who run it are.

    19. seataccrunch on

      There are like 700 super rich families, another 5 to 10% of comfortable and then varying degrees of pain for the masses.

      Kleptocracy and sucking the almighty dollar dick killed America, well and deep hatred of non whites and the evangelical vanilla ISIS block of Christian fundamentalists… but mostly $$$

    20. GaylordThomas2161 on

      The fact that the incarceration rate is higher in almost every US state than in MFKN RUSSIA is extremely telling

    21. TheDungen on

      Love the homocide rate. So tired of people complainin abou Sweden, it’sthe same colour as the rest of Europe and the safest places in the US are still more dangerous than Sweden.

    22. Thefirstredditor12 on

      always said this, USA is just like balkans but with money.

      Even their goverments now are more cringe than ours.

      some of the stuff they do/say would be crazy even for balkan politicians.

    23. Former-Lettuce8513 on

      Always interesting to see how second world USA actually is.

    24. mordenkidding69 on

      American here, it feels like it too. Constantly worrying about getting shot whether it’s by the police or by your neighbor is terrifying. Trump taking us towards authoritarianism is unspeakably awful. Drug addiction with no programs in place to help. I’m kinda at a loss. And the way the government in America has been shitting on the rest of the world the whole time I’ve been alive is shameful.

    25. Us is a country of extremes in both positive and negative sense. Although trending kinda more negative lately.

    26. BerryOk1477 on

      The answer is simple. The lack of public transport. You have to do everything with your car. No burning of calories.
      Why? The country is hugh.

      It has nothing to do with third world.

    27. Hoodlum8600 on

      Any time I see someone call the U.S. and third world country it’s a clear indicator that they have never left their hometown and only get their information from Reddit echo chambers 😂 or just a bitter, self hating drone

    28. Fantastic_Picture384 on

      I didn’t realise that third world countries were so rich that they had gone from the starvation stage to the obese stage.

    29. chessboardtable on

      And the only states that are on par with Europe in almost every category (New England) have mostly European American population (Irish, English, French, German).

    30. VigorousElk on

      Sure, if you cherry-pick your metrics.

      Check research output. Healthcare innovation. Patents. National parks area. Racism (ironic, I know), antisemitism. Cancer survival.

      The US suck in a lot of ways. They also excel, and outperform Europe, in a lot of others.

    31. Five-Oh-Vicryl on

      Californian here. The South sucks so hard.It’s World due to so many factors including unsurprisingly terrible elected officials.

    32. Articular0din on

      To play devil’s advocate on two points

      1. In the US, unless you live in a major metropolitan city such as New York, San Francisco, etc, you must own and drive a car to get to most places. You simply cannot get to the majority of the places you need to get to without one. The American infrastructure is based around owning a car. So with more daily driving, of course the rate of accidents and deaths is higher.

      2. In the illicit drug use slide it’s mentioned but not focused on, that the US rates of alcohol consumption and tobacco use is a fraction to that of Europe. Especially in younger people. In Austria, a literal third of people aged 18-35 smoke cigarettes on a regular basis. And in Paris the streets are littered with cigarette butts.

      Obesity, incarceration, and intentional homicide have no counter point. That’s true and it’s disgusting.

    33. AtmosphereOk1436 on

      I do not think Obesity is the best measurement to establish if a country belongs to the “third-world” category.

    34. Longjumping_Ad_4332 on

      I thought kwashiorkor was associated with third world countries, not obesity.

    35. nachtgans on

      I stopped watching as soon as I saw the author felt that Russia was Europe..

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