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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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.
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Which part of Africa did you see? Tunisia is radically different from Burundi, even "poor African country with slums" stereotypes like Nigeria are still far better than the DR Congo for example.
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DR Congo is exactly what came to mind.
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in the UK you have to actually work pretty hard to end up on the street (actively stealing wire out the walls of the first 5 places they put you in)
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Homelessness in the US is almost entirely due to drug addiction. Those that are consistently homeless are like that because all the free housing they might get has stipulations like looking for work and being sober. If you're not that degenerate, you can use all the services available to get on your feet again.
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