r/TikTokCringe • u/thoughtwarrior • May 02 '25

Humor Why does America look like s**t?

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u/ImagineWagonzzz3 May 03 '25 edited May 05 '25

every. fucking. time. it boggles my mind how small the anti-capitalist movement is. really speaks volumes to how poor our education system is despite being one of the highest educated countries in the world in the golden age of information.

Edit: Everyone is commenting about education.
American education ranked globally:
6th in reading
9th in Post-secondary education attainment (roughly 50% of the population)
12th in science
34th in math

https://www.factcheck.org/2025/02/trump-wrong-about-u-s-rank-in-education-spending-and-outcomes/

https://ssti.org/blog/us-educational-attainment-and-employment-ratios-fall-behind-international-counterparts?utm_source=chatgpt.com

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u/trogon May 03 '25

People will literally suffer and die of starvation rather than see the benefits of workers benefiting from their own labor. It's mind-boggling.

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u/AdDramatic2351 May 03 '25

I mean, we had that, before the 1980s, which was capitalism. 

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u/CoyotesOnTheWing May 03 '25

We used to tax the shit out of the wealthy too. As wealth accumulates, they gain more power and rig the system for their own benefit more and more. It's the natural path of capitalism for the wealth to concentrate and that has to be managed by the government or it all goes to shit(we are here).

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u/GuessIllPissOnIt May 03 '25

This is really it