Fully one third of the people on this planet have never used a telephone. Maybe we should all throw our telephones away as they're merely a manifestation of our quest for information and knowledge. Only to ultimately be used to further oppress the true, pure and genuine inhabitants of the planet that roam the jungles naked eating berries and leaves.
These comparisons are nonsense.
Some people are happily amused by swimming in a polluted stream in Niger.
Some people are willing to work hard for 10 years to buy a BMW in Connecticut.
Some people prefer to work for very little but are expected to do very little in Songkla.
One isn't better than the other. Another
Americans are bad! thread by our resident self-hater. Trying to pigeon-hole a country as diverse as the US is rarely successful or accurate. Plenty of tree huggers and compost-pile purveyors who ride their bikes and live in communes.
Do you realize how much plastic, silicon and non-natural, pollution-generating material is in your computer?