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Europeans should count their blessings and be proud of their continent!
The top 10% of Europeans own roughly 56% to 75% of total wealth (depending on the specific region), while the bottom half of the population holds as little as 2% to 5%.
Aren’t they better stats than most other places?
Yup. Most poor countries have a wealth distribution more like Russia than like the EU.
One illustration is that, despite the massively higher costs and shitty exchange rates on top of that, poor country elites send their kids to the West for university no problem.
You don't have to be ill to get better
Proud of extorting the whole world for centuries for our wealth? No, thank you
Yeah, maybe skip that part. But I'd say Europe is a very different place now.
If you think we have stopped extracting wealth from other countries you are the insane one
If your whole argument is "we cant be bad people because look at these even worse people" then I have nothing more to say to you. There will always be someone more stinky than you. Doesn't mean you're clean.
Yeah that's right, calling yourself the best and ignoring glaring structural exploitation of others will surely lead us to stop doing that
Just because I am not totally conviced you are in fact a troll I just want to explain to you why I don't find what you are saying very convincing.
The original top comment of this thread said:
You then went ahead and said this:
This showed to me, that you think extortion of wealth from all over the world is a thing we stopped 500 years ago. This is wrong on a number of levels, not the least is, that the original colonial age is decidedly less than 500 years ago. The USA is just close to 250 years old.
In response to that honestly already troll-like twisting of reality I just said:
You then acknowledged that we didn't in fact stop 500 years ago (rendering you first comment completely invalid) but then went ahead and tried to excuse that with this:
Never did I mention any of these countries, never did I claim that anyone did a better or worse job. I just maintained that we did not stop extorting money from other countries to benefit our own. Which I expressed thusly:
You then went ahead with a baffling try to convince me with a list of paywalled financial times arcticles that for some reason only pertain to anti-climate-change measures. Giving you the benefit of the doubt one could interpret this as connecting the fight against climate change with the unjust effects it has on the global south that is typically a target for our extortionism. But that would really need a mention from you. The way you put this it is way too removed to support your claim of us "doing better" with extorting money from other countries for out benefit. Again, you also list articles showing how other counties are doing bad shit.
I'm not even going to explain to you, that everyone can collect 7 positive and 4 negative articles about any country. Trying to paint a picture like this is childish at best. Convincing: not so much.
Anyways, thanks for indulging me in a lesson on how to earlier detect bullshit and disengage.
Thanks for this, I missed their comments before deletion.
Good on you for your thinking capacity as well, that seems to be getting kinda rare...
Let's hope and assume it's a "empty vessels make the most noise" type of situation.
Tbh after the comment with the ft links I was 50/50 on this just being an AI bot. I am very susceptible to getting sealioned this way
Didn't know sealioning was even a thing until now... This may explain a few interactions I had on Lemmy, I'm also very susceptible to that stuff
A lot of people are and it's a growing disease in online communities. It's doubly bad because firstly it drains energy and it makes engaging with actually well intentioned but disagreeing people a lot harder because you are always expecting to just waste your energy
As if it stopped lol
https://africasacountry.com/2025/05/green-hydrogen-old-colonialism
Where did I say it stopped? Please, do show me because I can't find that part