How bad is america for the poors really?

If you took the bottom 20% of poorest Americans and made them their own country, they would be wealthier on average than the average Canadian.

I have been extremely poor. I can verify it sucks. Eating McDonald's, living in your truck, working 78 hours a week without benefits. You eat McDonald's because it costs a dollar and because you have nowhere to cook or store food.

You fricking smell like shit since you spend all night sweating your balls off (or freezing them off, in which case you do not smell).

The worst part of this is other homeless people. They will fricking kill you the first fricking chance they get. They will NEVER look out for you, and they hassle you. The cops were always nice to me. They never tried to kill me. Other homeless people did.

Then, when I was well off, I went to other nations and saw just how much further you can fall. So being poor in America sucks, but it's nowhere near what I saw in Africa. At least here you can claw your way back. At least in my truck I just boiled, at least I had a truck. At least I had something to eat often enough to stay alive. They don't have that. They just lay out in the open and die of starvation.

https://old.reddit.com/r/Flights/comments/15i9ovy/cant_afford_our_trip_plz_help

Wow poor financial planning

This is from 2019 but when you look at consumption people in the poorest 20% of Americans have about as much purchasing power as the average European.

The American poor have some of the highest quality of life of any poors, but are still poors, if that makes sense. They (we ) have access to the most of the same amenities as wealthsigmas, but much lower quality. Being poor is expensive; if you rent everything instead of owning it you don't build wealth.

There's people who are legitimately poor (especially in expensive cities), and then there's people who are poor because they can't control their spending. The suburbs are full of people who live paycheck to paycheck because they got a mcmansion, luxury car lease, eat out all the time, etc.

This chick is a true peak poor. She has $11K in debt. Paying $100/mo in streaming services. She paid $2500 for a European vacation. Caleb would be screaming at theis point . From her post history, she's an unstable nanny with narcissist parents , narcissist inlaws , and narcissist clients .

in the UK min wage generally means probably having to house share if you live in an urban area and having to eat non brand food

That's about what it is here. 0% interest rates have really fricked over the working poor and wages are still catching up to the rather ridiculous inflation there has been the past few years. But, don't ever trust someone on Reddit claiming poverty, as @BussyMerchant has shown.

In Philadelphia the minimum wage is $7.25 per hour. When I was in law school my total monthly spending averaged about $1,130, so assuming full-time work after tax I would say a living wage here for a single person is about $8 an hour. That includes renting a sizable room but with shared kitchen and bathrooms. I eat healthy food, go to restaurants only once or twice a month and have little other luxury spending. I had a full-tuition scholarship but did have to pay academic fees and textbooks. Unskilled jobs requiring no experience, like say a cashier at the grocery store I shop at, usually start at about $12-$13 an hour now.

That is a long way to say: America is incredibly generous to anyone willing and able to work. We have a large number of programs to support the poor. You'll run into problems if you can't hold down a full-time job or are disabled, but you get supported in minimal living at least.

I think the main thing is you have to live in shittier parts of town than you did 30 years ago if you don't make a lot. In college, I was able to rent an apartment for 440/month and split it with a roommate, so I could make my rent making $6/hour part time. You can still afford a place like that now on relatively little, but you might have to live next to some drug dealers. The reddit guy is an idiot, of course:

>Government taxes the frick out of us

Poor people don't pay taxes except social security and medicare, and if you can manage to not keep yourself safe before you're 65 by eating hot pockets every day, they'll give it all back to you anyway.

This kind of cryposting about wagecucking makes me bemoan unfettered illegal immigration just a little bit less.

at 15$/hr you need to split rent with someone to make living comfortable, but so long as you're not stupid or living in new york you're good.

as a ruralcel I think you could genuinely still live on 7.25 an hour.. 1160 a month at 40 hours

750 rent, leaves 410 for everything else this assumes you got a shitbox from your parents and no debt...

that being said no one's paying 7.25 anymore (no minimum wage law required)

$15 would be 2400 a month pretty comfortable you could be paying for a car and stuff

Shrinkflation is unirobicslly a good thing for

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