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		Qem on Feb 4, 2023 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: The plateauing of cognitive ability among top earn... First-world is not most world. And even those places face welfare state dismantlement since at least the 80s.

AussieWog93 on Feb 4, 2023 [–]

Funnily enough, most of the people that seem to express this sentiment live in the first world and are educated.

I guess people who live in the third world and have mastered English see living proof every day of where their hard work can get them.

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