Really? How displaced is your view if you consider the USA easy mode?
Also, fuck Mexico. Apparently.
Haven’t you heard? Mexico doesn’t exist it is just drawn on the map to make people think that Canada and The United States are to the rest of the American Continent. Everyone who says they are from Mexico are just paid actors. /s
Also they left out New Zealand, which will not come as a surprise for New Zealanders. They will probably be happy that they are even on the map.
I can confirm that, I’m being paid to said I’m Mexican 🌮 viva México!!
they pay me with tacos btw
At the end of the day, while living in the US does have its share of issues, they absolutely do not compare to living in Africa.
Not to downplay how horrible life can be anywhere for someone who’s not healthy, wealthy, and typical:
Different by a factor of 187.
More than fifteen years in South Sudan to equate a year income in the US.
To equal a month’s income, you mean?
Believe that’s yearly.
There’s a bunch of African countries I would rather live than the US, although maybe not exactly South Africa or Congo…
Mexico mode is only available once a year on May Fifth. It then disappears until next the next year.
It might belong there depending on what they mean by easy. Its pretty vague
It really depends on your race and starting stats
All of central america, the caribbean, greenland, japan, hawaii, and new zealand were all unaccounted for. Probably will be included in the dlc
Mexico is just the US with a yellow camera filter.
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Or the former Bloc states
and canada, USA plus canada is easy mode. Australia is on some shit right now, they deserve it.
IDK what the others are except for europe and africa, which, yeah that’s about right. Africa is a hot fucking minute away from some spicy shit at the moment, and the other one is probably the same.
What?
Australia has a somewhat threadbare welfare state, though is more of a social democracy than the UK. And snakes and spiders are easier to avoid than Tories.
You are several orders of magnitude more likely to be killed by another human than an animal or insert in Australia.
Have you ever been fucked up by an Emu?
Trick question, Emus don’t leave behind survivors. Or witnesses.
Life in the US is only easy for a small handful of people. Most of us consider it a good year if we got through it without crushing medical debt and retained all of our teeth. Is a third world country passing itself off as a first world country.
At least US families can expect all their children not to die by tuberculosis or malaria or something.
And fuck Australian magpies.
Assuming the mother/baby don’t die in the hospital waiting room bathroom because the hospital refused treatment.
I get our healthcare system sucks but it isn’t worse than countless children dying of malaria.
Tuberculosis is still world’s deadliest infectious disease. Mostly because the healthcare in developing countries lack access to the necessary treatment for it.
TB is a solved problem in developed countries such as US. Barely anyone gets it anymore, let alone die from it.
Maps without Japan.
Fuck Japan.
I’m pretty sure significant portions of the medium and hard difficulties could be flip-flopped and most of Australia’s population doesn’t live in the PvE warzone you’re probably picturing in your head.
Mexico is so hard-as-fuck that was not included in the list.
I used to work with a guy that moved from Mexico city after his favourite cafe got gunned down by the cartel, his neighbor’s family got beheaded, and a family friend’s daughter got kidnapped.
Japan, Greenland, Cuba, New Zealand too apparently
I know this is just a shit post but fuck is this eurocentric and a bit racist let me refer you to the world happiness rank. The Corruption Perceptions Index and This map of real GDP.
https://worldpopulationreview.com/country-rankings/happiest-countries-in-the-world
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Corruption_Perceptions_Index
First of all: haha, funny, your nickname is in the OP
Secondly: how are your links you referred us to showing that the joke made is eurocentric and racist? What’s real GDP growth (that’s what the map you linked showed) got to do with anything? Why is the corruption perception index any indication of how hard life is gonna be if you are born in a certain place? It doesn’t show how much corruption there is or the effects of said corruption, just how corrupt things are perceived as.
And regarding the happiness index… Have you looked at the page? It lists almost exclusively countries within Europe, so that would support the joke, would it not?
Here is the wiki article on Real GDP feel free. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Real_gross_domestic_product The take a way is you will see most of South America and parts of Africa are on par with the USA.
Weirdly enough it is very hard to get corrupt politicians, civil servants, etc to check the yes box for the question are you corrupt. So corruption perception is used, which is actually pretty accurate. The local population is pretty good at noticing when they’re being asked to pay a bribe or seeing that nepotism is present in government.
If you were to look at the ranked list you would find that Uruguay, Barbados, Bhutan, and Botswana. Are all ahead of Greece, Montenegro, Romanian, Bulgaria, and Hungry.
As for the happiness index did you actually scroll down to the full list? Yes most of the country you would expect to be high on the list. There are plenty of outliers, Costa Rica is higher than the USA; Uruguay is higher than France; El Salvador is higher than Italy, Malta, Spain, Estonia, and Poland; Honduras and China are higher than Croatia, Greece, and Bosnia and Hertzegovina. I am sure there are more but I hope you get how it does not support the joke.
Is eurocentric and a little racist because it clearly states that the only countries worth living in are European or North America (except Mexico which apparently doesn’t exist). This meme is basically saying living in Europe or the United States is the best and everywhere else is a shit hole country. Yet looking at the actual data we can see that is not true.
You’re overemphasizing the nil racism in the meme. If anything, it highlights empathy that life can be harder being born in a less developed country and that that isn’t fair.
Here’s human rights index. Lots of different ways to measure things, none of them great.
https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/human-rights-index-vdem
Human development index matches decently except Australia
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human_Development_IndexSomos el mejor país de chile!
¡Es la verdad!
I’ve actually considered moving to Chile. How are things there?
Is complicated, every Chilean you ask will have a different opinion, but I think there are many reasons to think that chile will manage and there is hope for the future, you can make a post in [email protected], the Chilean community on lemmy too.
Also: were are you from?
GDP and GDP Growth are both useless metrics
Yeah they are. That is why I used Real GDP Growth. It is still not a great metric but it is a little better than GDP and GDP Growth.
I’m inclined to agree. While life is kinda good in Europe, it’s getting more and more difficult to lead a somewhat wealthy and happy life here. And now the fucking Nazis are on the rise again, it makes me sick. I’d absolutely prefer to live in NZ or Australia but I don’t want to tear my daughter away from her social surroundings just yet.
This is clearly some kind of rage bait troll post. Don’t acknowledge it and maybe they will just go away
Includes British Columbia in “easy mode”.
Nah, BC looks pretty, but if you unprepared off the beaten trails/roads, they’ll never find your body.
I don’t think we’re talking about wilderness in general… But housing and grocery prices are not particularly easy either.
If we aren’t talking about wilderness in general, then there is no reason for Australia to have it’s own category.
Seems to be an all round rubric partially political (more than a little based in Eurocentric standard) partially wilderness in which case Australia does kind of have BC beat. Like yes… We have moose grizzlies and wolverine but those are a pretty rare eldrich horror to stumble across. We don’t really have mouse-pocolypses, or dinnerplate sized crawlies that randomly just show up in our houses… And our critters are all round less venomous.
Like I grew up in a forestry household. Off trail can get spooky as fuck. But for a lot of the main points like exposure and microbial issues which is pretty much a problem everywhere we rank fairly tame. Most of our snakes and bugs are chill with highly survivable bites, our deserts are pretty temperate but in most of the heavily forested areas there’s a lot of foragables if you know what to look for and most of our big predators are easily scared off.
Penguin difficulty? Just git gud, scrub.
Deep ocean difficulty: Pick 1 or more deities to pray to.
Africa is harder than Australia. Not even close.
I’m gonna be real with you all, I’m in Australia and it’s a little embarrassing how hard you think we have it over here compared to the shit I’ve heard from other places. Like don’t fuck with the animals and don’t put your hands in areas you can’t see and you’re golden. I’ve had to deal with random violence like three times in my 34 years here. It’s pretty alright here.
Parts of Africa are definitely better than parts of medium tier
The Galapagos deserves its own level at the top of this. It’s literally, “don’t eat any green apples you find on the island, okay?”
