> My parents were poor because they were born in a shitty country with a shitty economic system and there wasn't anything they could do except leave. That's bad

> My parents were poor because they were born in a shitty country with a shitty economic system and there wasn't anything they could do except leave. That's bad luck. Ahh so $4000 had rather more purchasing power than in the US then. I wondered about a salary that low.