https://old.reddit.com/r/poor/comments/1ai1qov/america_is_unlivable
open question to non reddit soys because I am interested, my general impression is that these people are still fat as heck and order doordash 6 times a week while paying off a 100k car on credit.
If you make like 15$/hr mcdonaldings in America are are not r-slurred how is quality of life actually.
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
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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.
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The lowest GDP per capita state is higher than the highest GDP per capita Canadian province
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the only argument that you need for 99% of euros (Canadians are spiritually euros) is that their entire country is mogged by a poor farming state filled with inbreds and BIPOCs that gets fricked by natural disasters every other month
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Strange how this supposed state of affairs isn't reflected in the median wealth.
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That number is based on household consumption, which ends up counting all sources of income. Government assistance doesn't show up in self-reported measurements of wealth, but does show up in measurements of consumption.
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That's not true. Your poors are significantly more useless and lazy than Canadians. It's just your non poors are way better.
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