Olliekitty t1_ixmqfl3 wrote on November 24, 2022 at 4:58 PM

Reply to comment by HildemarTendler in 'Negligence' behind fans' World Cup woes by GoodRiddancePluto

> its citizens have one of the highest standards of living anywhere in the world.

This is only meaningful when put next to the ratio of citizens to non-citizen workers.

Aptosauras t1_ixmvsda wrote on November 24, 2022 at 5:36 PM

330 000 citizens, 2.2 million non-citizen workers.

Evil_Empire_1961 t1_ixoz4vh wrote on November 25, 2022 at 3:52 AM

#50,000 of them are millionaires

arathorn867 t1_ixn0ynv wrote on November 24, 2022 at 6:11 PM

It's like saying the citizens of the old American south had a high standard of living. It's accurate, and misses the entire issue. Sure citizens have it great when hardly anyone is a citizen.

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