This is what happened when I pulled back the graph a single year:
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I don't know how North Korea got the famine down like that.
In the late 90s the US started humanitarian aid to help them with the famine.
Personally, I'm not entirely sure a graph trusting official North Korean development markers should be taken super seriously.
Whoa, the y-axis isn't even exaggerating the discrepancy by setting zero higher or using a non-linear scale. The US has just quietly been drifting toward developing country status. Oof.
My knee-jerk reaction is that it's a feature, not a bug.
According to the graph plenty of actually developing countries are doing better than America.
America has tens of millions of people living off of wages/benefits far below the poverty line. Prices are skyrocketing and nothing else is except for profits. Homelessness is now a crime, to be a slave in a for-profit prison where you'll labour day and night and be fed rotting bread and sleeping on a paper thin cot. Welcome to the new world order.
In the future, when AI and automation has created a permanent 50%+ unemployment rate, any government assistance will be transactional. If you need food assistance, housing assistance, etc., you will be expected to work for it.
Other personal financial issues like homelessness, unemployment, and even high debt, will be criminalized, and those people will be sent to the work camps, where they will be leased out as Federal Work Slaves under the 13th Amendment, which will be known as "13s." It will be illegal to be poor.
The cheap slave labor will replace even more paying jobs, and unemployment will increase, creating more inmates for the camps. Eventually there will be far more workers than available slave labor jobs, and we will have an excess of disgusting human workers, eating, breeding, getting sick, spreading rumors, encouraging rebellion, sabotaging, etc.,
Many can be sent to die in The Excursion®, but many more won't be useful for that, and they'll just have to be eliminated.
Freedom isn't free, and this is the cost. Many people are going to have to surrender their freedom and their lives, so that better quality (wealthy) Americans can have satisfying lives. Preserving Freedom requires a lot of effort, and the work camps will provide that effort.
As someone once said "Arbeit Macht Frei" - Work Will Make You Free. So inspirational, it should be above the front gates.
North Korean mother's tell their fuzzy eaters "finish your plate, don't you know children are starving in America"
Woah, what happened in China 2015-2017?
So apparently france has had similar rates of malnutrition deaths for years, and norway isn't that far behind..
What the fuck?
RFK Jr is Right!