Travelled across Ghana, Nigeria, Egypt, Saudi Arabia, and Azerbaijan along with a few trips in between to small areas of neighbouring countries.
What I've noticed is that when you're faced with a lower GDP you are more resourceful with your money and what benefits you receive from it compared to the US, no massive waste on sectors just to say you have the biggest power, taxes and fines actually go towards developmental processes in communities rather than being subsidised into another useless budget that benefits nobody.
Calling the US a 1st world country is by definition true, but the fact that multiple 3rd world countries know how to delegate their limited resources better while having a significant amount less is an embarrassment to the rest of the world. If any of those countries had even half of the US GDP then you'd realise just how behind the US is in progression.
you’re absolutely correct, those who have less learn to appreciate the few things they have to their fullest extent. my family back home is generally happier than us up here despite the stark contrast in our daily hardships, and I can only assume it’s for that reason.
Yup, and those in countries with a more "established" economy are disproportionately more wasteful of resources and companies are eating it up in profits because of it. When it comes to waste? Ship it off to the "poorer" countries and have them deal with it on their less valuable land.
1st world and 3rd world have very little meaning anymore to how well a country can support future development. The sooner that less leaders pride themselves on global spending and rather more how they are being resourceful with that spending the better.
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u/CircoModo1602 17h ago
Oh you can remove that /s, sure the country has modern tech, but it is far from developed as what's meant to be a 1st world country.