Where do you draw the line? Living in Africa, it's difficult to think that Americans have something to moan about, especially when they're the ones who, per capita, are responsible for the largest contribution to climate change. They're the one's who are responsible for so much disruption in the world - going to war and then the resulting refugees spilling over into other countries.
(I lived in the States for 11 years - so I'm well aware of the systemic issues.)
Just as we could have stopped Covid in its tracks if we had been prepared to lock down immediately for a sufficinetly long time, but didn't because business didn't want to close and consumers didn't want to do without, so we could have done thing about climate change half a century ago.
People come from good and bad situations. They come from easy and difficult situations. Getting upset because one's boobs aren't as big as someone else's, or one is earning $250,000 per year when another is earning $900,000 per year misses the point that the size of one's boobs doesn't affect the greater good, and that one is already earning substantially more than others. And just because that appears unequal and unfair doesn't mean that we should be making other people focus on that unfairness - when the world is dying around us.
I see people moaning about stuff that when, put into perspective, at this point, is completely and utterly irrelevant. There is so much wrong in so many things that moaning about minor things is emoving attention from the more essential issues - climate change, future pandemics, massive inequality between the first workd and the third world, the sixth mass extinction, etc.
We all want to fix up things so that they are perfect, but right now, I would wish that people get a little dose of reality. The world is flooding, on fire, and being somewhat windswept. Plus we have a virus that is mutating as we speak.
I just wonder how many people are going to die before we put the lesser things aside and begin to focus on the things that will kill us all if we don't do something 10 years ago.
