Yikes, how do so many people live like thishttps://twitter.com/meakoopa/status/996203342689980416 …
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It’s an especially strange thing to hear from people who live in the wealthiest country in the world
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When talking to Americans I’m used to having to explain Singapore’s weirdness re: drugs, caning, etc But now I gotta ask, how can a country call itself the Land Of The Free when so many of its citizens are in such crushing debt?
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visakan veerasamy Retweeted Ryan Roberson
Seems like the bottom 60% are worse off than a lot of the world
I wonder what the respective gradients are like in India and Chinahttps://twitter.com/kelsro/status/996405424638320640?s=21 …visakan veerasamy added,
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visakan veerasamy Retweeted Woke Stevenson
Right, wow. As an outsider I always assumed Americans were mostly rich (relative to a global index) but it’s starting to become clearer that all of those things are dramatically distorted by the funhouse mirror of inequalityhttps://twitter.com/wokestevenson/status/996408560501211136?s=21 …
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"a lot more" is a hell of an understatement. housing costs have basically doubled. college costs have gone up TEN FUCKING TIMES. it's all financed with debt. American's aren't broke. American's are debtors. https://www.realtor.com/news/real-estate-news/mad-men-era-cost-of-living-then-vs-now/ …https://cei.org/blog/mind-boggling-increase-tuition-1960-even-students-learn-less-and-less …
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