Except all the all the data you've provided is unrelated to the talking point of the rhetoric, and you're practically arguing with yourself by citing things like development and not access to resources or care or wealth distribution, down to weird talking points which in isolation don't reflect the vastly different immediate accessibility of services across population like GDP. If you wanted to just show statistics on services based on averages or some stuff you probably won't have needed to write a small essay. I'm not sure anyone here but you took it as a literal statement, but I even spelled it out as rhetoric for your convenience. It looks like you read the post, decided I meant in absolute that US = Niger, and then went about debunking that. I've conceded the obvious it was exaggeration to whatever strange need that fills for you, and I'm not sure why you're still ranting.
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All of my data was absolutely related to what I was trying to debunk, which was your statement that I quoted in my previous post. This isn't a rant, none of what I said is emotional whatsoever, this is just a disagreement with your statements. Then you called almost the entirety of my post whataboutism, which I refuted, though it seems when you were referring to exaggeration,
here:
Yeah, I suppose it was probably grossly exaggerative rhetoric to begin with
I thought you meant MY post being exaggerated and not your original statement. Seems some wires got crossed and I misunderstood what you were referring to. And I've barely written maybe 3 or 4 paragraphs, do you seriously call that a full essay? That's barely a half a page. But just for kicks, lets talk about access to health care, wealth distribution, and access to 'resources' across the United States and see if it's on par with third world countries. First on health care, here's a chart from the CDC on access to American healthcare (
https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/hus/ataglance.htm):
these don't seem like numbers that would represent a third world country like Liberia, Though they could definitely be better. I couldn't find data that was arranged exactly like the chart above for Liberia or other third world countries, but the fact that there is 1 doctor per 76,000 people kind of illustrates my point for me (
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Health_in_Liberia). Next, In terms of wealth distribution, obviously wealth distribution heavily favors the upper classes, and that's a problem. Like I said, America isn't perfect. Finally, access to 'resources', I'm not exactly sure what you mean by resources, but I'm going to assume that means food, water, clothing, and electricity as those are the first things that spring to mind when one thinks of resources. That would represent the National Poverty Line. Which is defined as the bare minimum amount of money needed to purchase transportation arrangements, food, water, clothing, and other assorted bills. As of 2018 11.8% of the US is below the poverty line. (
https://www.census.gov/library/publications/2019/demo/p60-266.html) Could be better, as it's always good for poverty to be reduced and access of resources to be increased. However, again, these numbers doesn't seem to be representative of a third world country. We'll use Rwanda as an example, the poverty rate in Rwanda is 55% (
https://www.worldbank.org/en/country/rwanda/overview).