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You are likely not the average American consumer.

• taneq 7y ago
  From everything I've read, I'm amazed the average American has enough spare money to consume non-essentials.
  • hello_moto 7y ago
    USA is a prosperous country. You should check the content of a typical suburban houses.
  • bryan_w 7y ago
    Don't believe everything you read? People online make things sound worse then they are.
  • tdfx 7y ago
    The loudest complaints are always from the groups in the minority. Lots of people have small businesses who are suffering, or jobs that are basically incompatible with social distancing. But also think: just Bank of America employs 200k+ people. Most of them are still at work, doing their stuff from home, receiving their normal paychecks. Hundreds of thousands of small Amazon sellers and still shipping packages. There's a wide swath of America that's not feeling the pinch and is more eager to consume out of boredom than ever before.
  • _curious_ 7y ago
    Average is a very loose concept, but many Americans who appear to have steady discretionary income for 'non-essentials' are constantly walking the thin line of living within their means/being broke at best, but worse, in debt.