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Wealthy people (read: almost all HN users) By the metric where almost all HN users count as "wealthy", the US hardly has any poverty at all. I don't know that
by randallsquared 16y ago
Wealthy people (read: almost all HN users)
By the metric where almost all HN users count as "wealthy", the US hardly has any poverty at all. I don't know that that's inaccurate, but it's not the usual assumption.
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- silversmith 16y agoLet me put in perspective to you: the median wage (after taxes) is around 10k usd/year here in eastern europe. Currently I make around 15k and am pretty well off. The 25k number mentioned earlier is actually where the salary of average gray 9-5 office rat caps out - to go over that, you either have to run your own business (and be quite sucessful, of at least cut some serious corners) or be truly brilliant at what you do. And even then we are miles ahead of, say, China here. So yeah, US doesnt have that many poor folk.