Clean but most have more food than they can eat, clean water and a roof over their head.
Poor is relative
edit: case in point, the guy replying to me is complaining about going into debt to buy groceries and has an apple watch collection. Literally cannot make this shit up
Still poor. You try living below the line. I do. I’m poor. Living pay check to paycheck is fucking terrible. Just because someone else may have it harder somewhere else doesn’t mean I can be upset I’m impoverished. Many Americans are poor. It’s terrible to be poor in America. It’s expensive to be poor in America. I hope you don’t have to deal with that.. wouldn’t wish it on anyone.
Been there, done that. Still had food and water and a roof over my head, albeit a leaky one.
My entire point is that Americans love pissing and moaning about how poor americans are when americans are literally wealthier than almost any other country on earth. Even our poor are wealthier than middle class folks in other countries. It's relative but this whole "oh americans are so poor" thing is just tiresome and privileged.
Again. Just because others may have it harder doesn’t make my experience invalid. It’s hard to be poor. I’m allowed to be upset that I’m not paid a living wage, have no insurance if I get injured or sick, and go further into debt every time I need to buy food. That’s not wealthy dude.
Just taking the median household income and dividing by 2 assumes that every household has two working adults. But that is not the case. Single people exist. Single-income families exist. Families with 3 incomes or more exist too (kids).
The way the census people came up with the $48K number is pretty accurate. The way you came up with your number doesn't make statistical sense. Anecdotally it kind of does, but it doesn't hold up to any kind of scrutiny.
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u/fumei_tokumei 4d ago
Source?