U. S. Expats Are Revealing The "We're Being Scammed" Realizations They Had After Moving Abroad

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96. "People are kind."

I think we've been failing to recognize how the stresses of survival here have contributed to strife and violence. With everything deregulated or captured by big business, we're left to fend for ourselves in more ways than it's humanly possible to keep up with – even when there are no unexpected difficulties (health problems, natural disasters, etc.), let alone when there are. It's not just the easily quantifiable things, like our gargantuan wealth and income gaps; there are huge externalized costs shifted onto the backs of the public, as we spend hours, days, and weeks of our lives trying to make the health insurance we're paying for work for us, or reading the fine print to try to avoid consuming toxic substances, or trying with dwindling success to restore our privacy settings after the latest updates, or reading the fine print on a plethora of energy utility plans from a host of middlemen to try to figure out a reasonable deal, or replacing refrigerators too cr*ppified to last more than 3 years, etc. etc.

I believe people are kind everywhere, given a decent chance; but a lot folks here are close to if not beyond the breaking point.