There is no shortage of hiding places in Los Angeles, because this city that many outsiders see as prosperous and wealthy also has slums.
The life style of residents in slum neighborhoods is really worse than that in some impoverished counties in China.
Experts from the World Bank have concluded that the fastest growing income in the US empire over the past few decades is still the one percent of the population that already has money, while the income of the poorest five percent has
There will be no change.
The median income of rich people has greatly increased in recent decades, but serious imbalances have become more and more obvious. Eight percent of the world's people receive 50 percent of the world's income. Obviously, absolutely
Most people are outside the eight percent...
Eight percent are, of course, elites from all over the world, financial and corporate executives from rich countries, and a large number of emerging middle classes from China, India, Brazil and other countries.
People living in some parts of Africa and Latin America, as well as Eastern Europe and the former Soviet Union, have not seen much income change in recent decades.
These people in slum neighborhoods in developed countries have not changed at all!
The U.S. Empire is actually a negative example. In many aspects, the U.S. Empire often leads the world and makes other countries follow its footsteps. If other countries also imitate the U.S. Empire, the future situation will not be optimistic.
The growing income and wealth gaps in the US empire are representative of the situation in the Western world, a trend that became more common in the late 1980s! In most advanced economies, the top few percent earn more, and ranking income
The lowest 20% of the population are falling further behind!
The slums in developed countries are the best proof of reality.
Xu Yun drove to look for slum neighborhoods in the American Empire. These places were actually easy to find. Ten minutes after the car drove out at a very fast speed, he saw a sign on a block.
The sign reads: Do you dare to take a chance, follow your dreams, take risks, fall in love, believe in yourself, ask questions, let go, make mistakes, start over, tell the truth, be responsible, find happiness, and live in the moment?
This is obviously something that only exists in the poor neighborhoods of Los Angeles. The rich areas have no need for this kind of toxic "chicken soup for the soul".
Among the world's advanced economies, the U.S. Empire has seen the most extreme income and opportunity disparities, which have had fatal consequences in the macroeconomic field.
To put it bluntly, the U.S. Empire’s GDP has more than quadrupled in the past forty years, and has nearly doubled in the past twenty years!
However, it is now well known that the benefits accrue to the highest-income groups, and these benefits are increasingly concentrated among the richest among the highest-income groups! The poor were poor forty years ago, and they are still poor today.
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Income inequality has been gradually increasing across the U.S. empire, along with tax cuts for the wealthy and deregulation of financial institutions.
This is no coincidence! This inequality has increased as investments in infrastructure, education, health care and social safety nets have been cut. Rising inequality has eroded the US imperial political system and democratic governance, which in turn has exacerbated inequality.
The slum neighborhoods of Los Angeles are full of people looking for food in garbage dumps, homeless people lying in a ray of sunshine, poor people pushing all their belongings in small carts, and slogans saying "God loves you" everywhere.
Because this seems to be their only spiritual food...
There is no shortage of various aids from the US empire, but these people can only receive a mouthful of food to fill their stomachs.
Xu Yun drove the car into a slum neighborhood. The legend in the car sat up in horror: "Why do we come to a place like this! This is a slum! It's very dangerous here! It's very unsafe!"
"Because it is unsafe, it is easier for the police to 'miss' this place." Xu Yun said calmly. Of course he knew how unsafe this kind of place was.
"You don't understand the slums of the American Empire at all!" Legend glared: "There are only all kinds of drug dealers! Pimps! Women selling meat! There is only filth and chaos here! There is only murder and robbery!"
This is a black slum in west Los Angeles, also called a gangster area by locals. In fact, it is not far from the lively city center.
Just when Legend was worried about this, several black figures appeared in front of the car and walked directly towards the car without any intention of avoiding it.
Lin Ge said lightly: "Five black people."
"Such a blatant robbery on the road is really life-threatening..." Xu Yun also shook his head helplessly. He dared to stop such a big car. It is conceivable that if he encountered someone driving a car, these people might dare to directly
He pounced on him.
When Xu Yun stopped the car, the black men who blocked the car started banging on the car body crazily!
These people showed no intention of restraining themselves after forcing Xu Yun's car to stop. It seemed that they had no intention of leaving here unless they got some benefits from them.
Legend shrank in fear. Xu Yun knew that coming to a neighborhood like this would make Legend a lot of fear. Now he would not agree even if he was kicked out of the car.
Xu Yun and Lin Ge stood up and opened the car door, and Xu Yun smelled a sour smell in the air.
Because almost all the streets in this place are filled with garbage, there is some solidified gasoline on the road, and there are even groups of crushed cockroaches, directly exposed to the air.
Xu Yun suddenly remembered that when he was on a mission in Detroit, the streets were like this and had the same sour smell. Then a truck suddenly drove over at the intersection and stopped next to a group of black people.
The black people around came over to take a look. The people in the truck threw a lot of clothes out of the truck. They were all old and smelled bad.
Xu Yun knew that these clothes were all disposed of from hospitals or crematoriums. But the people who were given the clothes were still very happy, and they immediately wore them on themselves without even washing them...
These people have no place to live or work at all, so these people will not reject anything. As long as it is something they have received, they will accept it without hesitation.
They have no ideals, no ambitions, no goals of any kind, and only one thought is to live.
After all, there are many black people in the American Empire, but how many can become sports superstars? How many people have played basketball since childhood, but the American professional basketball requires not only physical fitness and ball sense, but also basketball IQ.
To put it bluntly, there are many people in the United States who are good at basketball. There are also people who can outdo the American NBA superstars in one-on-one matches, but they can’t succeed even if they don’t have enough IQ. After all, basketball is not a bullfighting sport for one person.
It is a team sport of five people.
The same goes for other sports, football, baseball, ice hockey...
All in all, although there are many sports paths, there are still very few people who want to excel.
In addition to playing sports, their other outlet is movies and music. Black people are also very talented in music. They have a very strong sense of music. Even people without any musical foundation can use their talented music to make music.
Feel the record.
Those ridiculous rap songs have made many black singers successful. Kanye, who has become such a popular brand, is such a genius. He can make the so-called rap routines more varied and competitive, but there are very few such people.
Therefore, most black people still live in poverty. The five guys standing in front of Xu Yun and the others at this moment are just how bad their lives are. Perhaps Xu Yun and Lin Ge cannot imagine how bad their lives are.
"Hey, buddy, what do you want to do?" Xu Yun stepped on the huge pickup truck pedal, raised his eyebrows and said to the five people in front of him.
When the five black men saw that they were Chinese, they unceremoniously took out the switchblade hidden on their bodies: "Stop talking nonsense! Take out all the cash you have on you immediately!"
"What age is this? Who still uses cash?" Lin Ge laughed from behind: "We all use mobile phones to pay these days. Do you have WeChat? I'll send you a red envelope. You can also use Alipay to transfer the money to you.
We don’t have any cash.”
The other party couldn't understand what Lin Ge said at all. They thought he was laughing at them, so they immediately turned their backs: "Believe it or not, I will kill you right now!"