They don't even have 500 bucks in case of an emergency lol literally will bankrupt them. We are getting to a point where its almost impossible to survive on a fiat standard; you either have to cut back tremendously or start racking up debt to keep the same lifestyle
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Odell posted a stat last week that said the poverty line is not $31k but actually $140k. Who do you know that is making $140k? I don’t even know households making that much. America is a 3rd world country now lmao
I've literally been told by an ex girlfriend who wasn't American that she didn't want to be poor, so she didn't want to move to America.
It's obvious to anyone who's not American, but Americans don't get it.
The new American Dream is to leave America
Ironic. Similar to how Americans think they live in the land of the free because the government said so 😂
Exactly. Fwiw, I felt a crushing sense of doom and un-freedom when I got off the airplane in America the last time I came back. Its palpable.
Don’t you feel the freedom as you walk through tsa getting blasted with radiation X-rays and having your bags searched like a criminal?
Sooooo free.
But even without that... There's a tension just among people. Its like the air feels thicker and everyone gets nervous. Its not like that at all in the airports of other countries.
That’s probably from all the chem trails people are inhaling 😂
I wonder if anyone has gathered stats on lifespan and health of airport workers...
But no, it's because people know one some level that they aren't free and they can be black bagged by our insane government at any moment and they are just hoping to escape.
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In some regards America has always been a poor country imo. I think we got a little post ww2 bump but that is over and we are returning to the mean.
Disagree. People were wealthy before the fed was established. You could support a family off one income even if you didn’t have a high school diploma.
Yes
I don’t disagree with that but it was a completely different society mostly agrarian and tough monotonous factory work.
Yeah it was developing but still much much better than any other part of the world. People lined up to come to the US in order to do that difficult work. The American dream was simple: a home with a white picket fence. And the technological innovations that were achieved may not have been possible in other circumstances or may have taken longer to be discovered. Innovations like the steam engine allowed for automation of these monotonous jobs and a rising standard of living. But government always stifles innovation. Their mandates and regulations slow down human progress. And the easiest way for a government to do that is through the establishment of a central bank. A utopic alternate reality where central banks were prevented from being established is one I think about often.
Yes. Totally
The 1950s boom was an anomaly not the default