Your parent is unhappy with these articles because they are basically doomsday proclamations. "Uncomfortable" doesn't even enter into it, because the message is simply "welp, we're fucked". That's why new angles would be interesting.
But other countries aren't fucked. They did well on the test, so why can't the solution be to do what those other countries are doing?
Flanders and Australia are every bit as 'incomparable' as Finland and the US, so let's just compare anyway. It turns out there are major consequences for income inequality, and most of the countries listed in the top categories have worked aggressively to reduce it and to alleviate it's consequences through social programs.
What those other countries are doing is not having many Africans. But this is not a problem, and would be difficult to fix even if it were.
Income inequality is a major goal of American politics. The poverty oligarchs farm the poor for votes. This will continue for as long as Americans practice the perversion known as democracy.
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Your parent is unhappy with these articles because they are basically doomsday proclamations. "Uncomfortable" doesn't even enter into it, because the message is simply "welp, we're fucked". That's why new angles would be interesting.
But other countries aren't fucked. They did well on the test, so why can't the solution be to do what those other countries are doing?
Flanders and Australia are every bit as 'incomparable' as Finland and the US, so let's just compare anyway. It turns out there are major consequences for income inequality, and most of the countries listed in the top categories have worked aggressively to reduce it and to alleviate it's consequences through social programs.
What those other countries are doing is not having many Africans. But this is not a problem, and would be difficult to fix even if it were.
Income inequality is a major goal of American politics. The poverty oligarchs farm the poor for votes. This will continue for as long as Americans practice the perversion known as democracy.