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Yes, it's so heartbreaking when it starts happening in first-world countries.

• tomrod 4y ago
  I can't tell if your comment is in good faith or is sarcastic. It's heartbreaking that children anywhere go hungry. Children didn't make the decisions that led them to their hunger. They didn't choose to be born in situations, regimes, or societies that failed them. They didn't choose and have no power over local culture, religions, politics, policies, wars, and other drivers of stupidity. They are victims, completely, of others who have power to make things better. So yes, it is heartbreaking that this continues to happen in first-world (US/NATO aligned) countries, second-world (formerly Soviet aligned countries), and third-world (unaligned) countries. People who complain about taxes going to feed children are social darwinists. We should pay teachers and lunch staff much better as well.
  • wiredearp 4y ago
    I think that super power affiliation is perhaps a somewhat outdated definition of the three worlds concept and Britain certainly doesn't fit the modern one [1]. This guy argues that Britain is best thought of as a fourth world country [2] and he explains why the financial markets now compare Britain to a banana republic [3] [1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/First_World https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/First_World [2] https://eand.co/how-america-collapsed-and-became-a-fourth-world-country-db9829323a9a https://eand.co/how-america-collapsed-and-became-a-fourth-wo... [3] https://eand.co/britain-just-hit-the-next-level-of-self-destruction-and-the-pain-will-be-immense-ca254f87533c https://eand.co/britain-just-hit-the-next-level-of-self-dest...
    • tomrod 4y ago
      To keep the threadjack potential low, note that 4th world to Nth world countries' children should also not be starving.
• pessimizer 4y ago
  "starts"?