44% of Fully Employed Americans earning $18,000 or less

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wow. i know our poverty level is relative, but i wouldn't have thought the world's 1% started at $32k


the point is, someone making $32k in the US is not living a 1% life. sure, if they moved to a war torn, impoverished country, they might actually live like the 1% they statistically are, but unfortunately they live in america and are struggling.

it's not about telling people to move, it's about not using that stat in some poverty olympics shaming -"you're in the US's bottom 20% but india's bottom 20% is so much worse"...don't matter, neither is living well relative to the [upper] middle class/wealthy in their country
Sometimes I ponder about maxing student loans, a bunch of credit cards, then taking a huge loan. While leaving the US for good, to some up and coming nation in Africa, like Nigeria.

I already have dual citizenship to the UK. So I should be aight.

:jbhmm:Reminds me, I need to setup that bank account in the carribbean.
 
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