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That may be true in America, but not every country treats its citizens the way America does. In my country, normal families can go travel or visit zoos or circuses without being rich. Unions are your friend.
Do you really think it's specific to the USA and the rest of the world has it easy? LOL
Let me amend it:
*Wealthy parents or parents living in one of the very few wealthy and social countries.
My point being that it's a minority of people who can claim this in this world.
Never said the rest of the world has it easy. People online just tend to only ever look at the world through the American lens.
I'm so sorry that some of us are born in places where we get to have good lives. How terrible of us.
And you tend to look through your own lens, it seems.
And mild social democratic policies (or as they are called in murrica: COMMUNISM!!!11!1) are your friend as well.
Yeah. I'm Danish which ranks pretty high in almost all areas of social happiness, which includes parents. It's kinda sad for me to hear that there are people out there in the supposed first world who thinks that traveling or going to the circus, or museums etc is only for the wealthy, when it's a pretty normal thing where I live. Museums and amusement parks are pretty popular here. My boyfriend and I gifted a close colleague of mine a trip to Legoland with the whole family for Christmas one year and they had a total blast. Enough that they decided to go the next year again, lol. None of us are rich. We actually are in the lower end of the earning bracket in Danish society, but we can still afford to do fun things. You'd have to be really shitty with money or too sick to work or study to not be able to have a somewhat decent life in Denmark. The latter, I have been through, btw.