What is the most respectable third world shithole, if there's even such a thing? A country that's poor mostly due to circumstance rather than the fault of its people, and they're genuinely trying to improve their situation. The only one that comes to mind is Moldova, the poorest country in Europe, but even Moldova is a lot better than non-European shitholes.
>>524114008Probly Japan back then. Poor, tiny island, hostile neighbors.Quickly catch to quirks standards after contacting the west.
>>524114008Lebanon
>>524114008North Korea clears everyone else and it’s not close at all.The top quarter of the population lives like anyone in a developed country, but if they challenge the regime they are cast into immediate rural poverty and their children are punished likewise, just for good measure.25 million strong, pure fucking Koreans. You get a meal by showing loyalty. Best health outcomes of any third world country, too. Possibly better dental care than some parts of the American south.
>>524114008The US. We have infinite debt, but we are actually pretty smart. We have a nonfunctional government because corpos have too much influence on public policy. Although it is becoming more popular to try to fix things, neither party actually wants to listen to voters and fix the goddamned problems. But hey, at least we can play tug of war with war hawk / isolationist / soft power policies every election cycle, right?
>>524116065True, and South Korea and a lot of asian countries also pulled ahead in the XX century, but I was wondering about the present. >>524116190Good point, actually I think a lot of Israel's neighbours are fucked mostly because of being in proximity to jews. >>524116290>The top quarter of the population lives like anyone in a developed countryI'm not sure about that, even for them their options and freedom are quite limited.
Argentina
>>524116290> third world shithole>US ok
>>524116675Argentina and Chile are not shitholes though, you can drop a pin anywhere at random and it looks like the south American equivalent of Eastern Europe. It's not rich, but there's no trash and human excrement on the streets like you see everywhere in India.
>>524116551I think regular americans are good hard working people, but your society is fucked, on purpose, with malicious intent. The nigger worship, the evangelical christianity that puts israel and jews above its own interests, the corpo bootlicking.