• comrade-bear@lemmygrad.ml
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    2 months ago

    Still I don’t see how it’s a developing country, the poverty indices are extremely low quality of life very good, by that metric the US should be an undeveloping country with its job crisis opioid epidemic, real estate prices running rampant, I just don’t understand the metric of what is a developed country if China isn’t one

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      2 months ago

      Well, a big part of it is US foreign policy so that’s probably the simplest answer. The west decides the rules on this and then predictably applies it to the rest of the world. They don’t have an “undeveloping” or “de-development” metric, or else practically every western nation would fall under it.