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Disabled man without hands or legs is left without carers (www.bbc.co.uk)

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DJ Calvert told BBC News NI: "I've been let down - and I'm not the only one."

It was proof that Northern Ireland's health and social care system had "crashed", said the 49-year-old.

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[-] DontMakeMoreBabies@kbin.social 111 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Billionaires exist and this poor man can't get a goddamn health care worker.

At all levels of government we're (worldwide) making due with less while these fucking parasites grow.

Shit is going to get ugly in the next few decades...

[-] yogthos@lemmy.ml 27 points 1 year ago

Not everywhere...

The real (inflation-adjusted) incomes of the poorest half of the Chinese population increased by more than four hundred percent from 1978 to 2015, while real incomes of the poorest half of the US population actually declined during the same time period. https://www.nber.org/system/files/working_papers/w23119/w23119.pdf

From 1978 to 2000, the number of people in China living on under $1/day fell by 300 million, reversing a global trend of rising poverty that had lasted half a century (i.e. if China were excluded, the world's total poverty population would have risen) https://www.semanticscholar.org/paper/China%E2%80%99s-Economic-Growth-and-Poverty-Reduction-Angang-Linlin/c883fc7496aa1b920b05dc2546b880f54b9c77a4

From 2010 to 2019 (the most recent period for which uninterrupted data is available), the income of the poorest 20% in China increased even as a share of total income. https://data.worldbank.org/indicator/SI.DST.FRST.20?end=2019&locations=CN&start=2008

By the end of 2020, extreme poverty, defined as living on under a threshold of around $2 per day, had been eliminated in China. According to the World Bank, the Chinese government had spent $700 billion on poverty alleviation since 2014. https://www.nytimes.com/2020/12/31/world/asia/china-poverty-xi-jinping.html

https://www.worldbank.org/en/news/press-release/2022/04/01/lifting-800-million-people-out-of-poverty-new-report-looks-at-lessons-from-china-s-experience

[+] Mongostein@lemmy.ca -33 points 1 year ago

Seriously. How much do you get paid for shilling China so hard? And where do I sign up?

[-] zerfuffle@lemmy.ml 27 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

"why are we talking about the communist party of china under an article about how the bourgeoisie continues to accumulate wealth to the detriment of the proletariat?"

[+] Mongostein@lemmy.ca -25 points 1 year ago

This thread is about a dude in Ireland. It has nothing to do with China.

Say what you want about the west, but China isn’t what the world should be either.

[-] ksynwa@lemmygrad.ml 29 points 1 year ago

The comment it is in reply to says:

At all levels of government we’re (worldwide) making due with less while these fucking parasites grow.

So Yogthos provides a counterpoint where a government is investing in the lower rungs of the society instead of squeezing them. If you want to dispute the mentioned facts it's one thing but the comment is still relevant and not out-of-nowhere China shilling.

[-] Aria@lemmygrad.ml 8 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

This thread is about a dude in Ireland. It has nothing to do with China.

“why are we talking about the communist party of china under an article about how the bourgeoisie continues to accumulate wealth to the detriment of the proletariat?”

The thing is that the comment rings true about the other AES countries also. OP (of the thread, not the post) has identified a problem, and the commies are suggesting a solution to the problem, with statistics that prove it to be viable. You're dismissing the solution as off-topic, but it's very relevant. The thread is directly relevant to the article, and the reply is directly relevant to the thread.