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zarlon The 'paperwork flood': How I drowned a bureaucrat before dinner

I guess "I harassed a random low level employee because I took a request to fax documents as a personal insult" wasn't as catchy of a title?

zarlon Being poor vs. being broke

I'm not saying literally everyone in America has electricity/running water. I'm saying it's a rare exception, not "hundreds of thousands (millions?) of people".

zarlon Being poor vs. being broke

No one in this thread has any evidence of these "hundreds of thousands (millions?) of people" and just falls back to "well I met a guy".

The claim is not that literally 100% of Americans have electricity/running water. It's that there are not "millions" of Americans without them.

zarlon Being poor vs. being broke

> There are hundreds of thousands (millions?) of people in America who do not have electricity or even running water in their homes.

This is just not true. America has many problems but access to electricity/running water simply is not one of them.