• halcyoncmdr@piefed.social
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    1 day ago

    I mean, the entire song was making fun of the Gangnam District being wealthy. It has the highest average income per resident in South Korea. I wouldn’t exactly say that’s people already in a bad situations.

    There are of course exceptions, but a massive fire in Manhattan is totally different than one in the Bronx for instance.

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      24 hours ago

      This is the place that caught fire.

      This is the place across the street.

      I dunno, if I’m in my 70s making $240 a month and living in a shipping container that I don’t technically own while the guy across the street’s putting in skyscrapers, I might be inclined to call my situation comparatively not that great. I say that like that’s not better than my current retirement plan, but that’s beside the point.

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        24 hours ago

        Ah see that article has a completely different framing than the OP. The OP make sit seem that it’s the Gangnam District that’s known to be wealthy directly, not a “slum” nearby.

        That is extremely important context that Reuters seems to have missed/ignored.