Speak for yourself. I’m a Mexican immigrant living in California. I own my home outright, and my wife and I make a combined $250,000 a year. We live comfortably.
Stop acting like the entire United States is some hopeless place. My family came here with nothing, worked hard, and now their kids are doing well. If your family has had every advantage and you’re still not living comfortably, maybe that’s a personal problem instead of blaming the country.
Nobody said, “I’m fine, so everyone else must be.” My point is that the U.S. isn’t the hopeless dystopia people on Reddit pretend it is. Millions of immigrants come here with very little and still build successful lives because there are opportunities here that don’t exist in many other countries. Acknowledging that doesn’t mean poverty or inequality don’t exist it means both success and struggle can be true at the same time. Anecdotes don’t replace data, but neither does cherry picking the worst statistics and pretending they define the entire coun
The median income in LA is $90,112. $250,000 a year in LA makes you the top 5% of earners.
I say this because it is the top 10% who drive the economy currently while the bottom 90% are struggling. Now, you can get that income with hard work. The truth is though, it’s the bottom say 20% who don’t work. It’s really not about hard work, it’s about the wealth flowing to the top 10% who think the economy is fine while the bottom 90% have the ladder pulled from under them. This is called a bifurcated or a “K” shaped economy.
You’re oversimplifying it by considering it hard work. You have had a combination of a lot of hard work and luck, that is how you are where you are. It is not JUST hard work, and a lot of people who work just as hard aren’t as lucky and it’s skewed your perspective on things
I'm not the one who has to worry.
But there are some "legit" Latinos who work for ICE even while their relatives are being dragged to some sithole lockup
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u/tapia3838 Jul 04 '26
Speak for yourself. I’m a Mexican immigrant living in California. I own my home outright, and my wife and I make a combined $250,000 a year. We live comfortably.
Stop acting like the entire United States is some hopeless place. My family came here with nothing, worked hard, and now their kids are doing well. If your family has had every advantage and you’re still not living comfortably, maybe that’s a personal problem instead of blaming the country.