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Yellow posted...

Our country is treated like an economic powerhouse with a job to do over an ideal place to live.

At least, that's how they constantly justify privatizing almost everything and putting corporations on a pedestal. Anything that threatens the income of a corporation is treated as a national threat. It's a pattern that repeats itself everywhere, even our streets were lobbied by automobile manufacturers so that public transportation just doesn't make sense. What you call corruption these people call a positive thing. They say we can't fall behind China, or fall behind on the world stage.

It's probably the reason why, even though we are culturally basically the same as Canada or England, they have much more solid welfare safety nets, because they don't worry about being the most powerful country on Earth. Or at least use that as an excuse to let CEOs walk all over them.

I just prefer a society where government works for all its people, where common sense and the common good prevails over individual greed and selfishness, and where life, in general, is made as comfortable as possibly in terms of services.

I think modern countries in Asia offer that, while Western countries have mostly dropped the ball, with governments abandoning (selling off) their responsibilities to private/corporate greed, and as a result, we see many institutions like healthcare, postal services, etc, now failing in numerous Western countries. Theyve been completely hollowed out and made far more expensive for the people.

When Im in Japan, or Taiwan, or whatever, it just makes sense. Public transportation is good, affordable, dependable, etc. The streets are clean. Going out is safe and affordable. It all just seems to work as it should work. It seems like the system is fair to the vast majority of the people. That not to say its 100%, of course there will be flaws and bad exceptions, but in general, it seems theyve got their priorities straight on how to be a modern functioning society.