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[–] Aceticon@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (3 children)

Try doing that with a passport and the typical access to Education from, say Burkina Faso.

[–] scytale@piefed.zip 2 points 1 week ago

Yeah aside from money, a lot of people forget about passport privilege.

[–] elephantium@lemmy.world 1 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Eto wi’de noon e ɗemngal laawɗungal leydi Burkinaa.

But since the rest of the thread is in English, I hope you'll forgive me for thinking of this in the context of predominantly English-speaking countries.

[–] Aceticon@lemmy.dbzer0.com 0 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Well, the reason why I also included "typical access to Education" is that for those from countries whose main language isn't the most often spoken second language in the World, the most common way to learn it is at school.

[–] blarghly@lemmy.world 0 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Moving the goalposts. We can assume from context that they are speaking to an audience from developed nations.

[–] Aceticon@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 1 week ago

This all started with:

A nomadic life can be cheaper than a sedentary one.

To which the previous poster added an example.

I'm pointing out that there are many other common contexts were things don't at all work like that.

By that "logic" of yours whenever a Western newspaper publishes a story about something that happened elsewhere in the World, it's "goalpost moving".

I think you're confusing your own "I don't give a shit about people not like me" mindset with the mindset of the entire audience here.