I love it when libs think living in places like China or Cuba is like living in a wasteland. The way some people talk about these countries you’d think these places looked like something out of Mad Max instead of thriving, prosperous nations. I’d like to write up some agit prop as a go-to resource on these countries. Examples of info I’d like to have handy:
Life expectancy
Cost of Healthcare
How much does it cost to ride an ambulance?
How much does childbirth cost?
What if I’m diabetic? What if I need therapy for mental health issues?
Crime rates, ex: number of thefts / 10000 people
Rates of people suffering from depression
Suicide rates
Etc.
I believe the average person living in China has a higher quality of life than I do in burgerland, but I don’t have hard figures to prove it. Help plz?
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Coincidentally, I’ve been playing around with the thought of doing something similar if I ever have time. I basically wanted to turn the “they’re not underdeveloped, they’re over-expoilted”
quote into a series of infographics, but heavily lean into how things like revolutions, the western world, and sanctions can heavily influence the outcome for the people’s living conditions.
There’s a book by Walter Scheidel called The Great Leveler in which he does a before and after of gini coefficients regard things like plagues, revolutions, and I was gonna go through his sources to see if there was a database that could be referenced. Something to maybe check out.
