Again, I didn't say America is perfect. Just you have the highest chance of making it here rather then anywhere else

Real I'm from Atlanta, been living in Costa Rica for the past few years to stay close with family. CR is a 3rd world country

It's gonna be mainly sheltered Americans and Europeans who don't travel, or only travel for vacations/business, that got a problem with OP's overall message

Obviously not if we have the highest poverty rates of all “developed” nations

Like it’s one thing to disagree but people are fuming over what’s honestly overall not that crazy of an observation

It’s relative though, s*** costs way more here and it also costs a ton of money to get that degree

Basically anyone without that degree can’t afford their own home

they always dominate happiest country lists

ok and

what is there to elaborate on lool

same tbh

America is best characterized as a very rich country with some very poor people and not a poor country with some very rich people -- the article includes sources, but by pretty much any metric the median American household is very wealthy/high income relative to the rest of the world (and relative to previous Americans). And anyone in the top ~10-20% (about 145K for a household) of the US income distribution will be doing incredibly well by global standards.

Source: noahpinion.blog/p/no-the-us-is-not-a-poor-society-with

a dumb nigga like me who grew up broke was able to make close to six figures out of college. anything is possible in this country. idk how some yall still broke. making money in the u.s. is easy

This is why I still believe America is the country to be the American dream is still very much attainable and very much alive

Basically. I’ll take this until there’s some other clearly superior option

It's all about having ambition and the mind for it. Unfortunately growing up in a poor environment means you'll usually get subjected to the same problems your parents went through. It's a viscous cycle but it's not impossible to break free. You got a shot here in the US while a poor kid growing up in a third world country has virtually no chance at winning. That's why so many families immigrate to America, so their children can have a chance

a poor american is a rich malaysian, colombian, south african, ukranian...

These guys don't realize that poverty in the US is not the same as poverty in other countries. It's all relative

exactly, my main point was geo-politics... but cash rules everything around me... so now we talkin bout economics

Iceland sound better than us cant think anywhere else tho

KTT2 is IP banned there so

Used to talk to this Ukrainian dude online and after I told him how much my rent was he always referred to me as a "rich guy" even though I was just a bartender

Nah, he's saying the poverty here is elevated poverty

U.S. still the greatest country in the world. Think of allllllll the freedoms we have right? Pick one of those freedoms, any of them...

There's one country somewhere in the world who is like "nope. you cant do that here."

bruh salaries in finance/tech are so divorced from the national average, they're in a bubble of their own compared to pre much every other industry

in the field i wanna pursue, 50-60k is a blessed salary. meanwhile these tech mfs are starting out at 100k

its really relative to some degree

but the Purchasing Power of an American Dollar compared to a Colombian Pesos, or even British Pound is not even a comparison

Not even true

Pounds are worth more than USD lol

Nevermind cost of living is higher in the US than both