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DirkGently

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11. Yes. Isolation is clearly part of the problem.
Tue Jun 10, 2014, 09:45 PM
Jun 2014

Last edited Wed Jun 11, 2014, 09:41 AM - Edit history (1)

As you say, many Americans have not seen, and don't care to learn about, the way issues like taxation and worker's rights and infrastructure work in the rest of the world. We're more familiar with poorer countries than other parts of the developed world, and constantly pat ourselves on the back for having better conditions than the most impoverished countries in the world.

Michael Moore's Sicko opened a small window into universal health care, but the people who needed that perspective most would of course never seek it out.

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