I mean, cost of living is higher than america than other parts of the world and other parts of the world have state-funded security programs that take some of the anxiety away from living.

Here in (western) europe I’d wager at half of people (including me) are insulated from “poverty induced misery”. There are an awful lot of stupidly big and expensive cars on the road.

Am I glad that ~400 million ::: spoiler spoiler (200 mill in north america, 100 mill in europe, 100 mill everywhere else)::: people total live in that state of freedom? Yeah, but it is ever so depressing to think about what a minority of humanity it really is.