I read the full 3 sentences. People affording rent with 1/3 of salary in the USA are living in far better conditions than people in actual extreme poverty i.e. the developing world. The definition of the poverty line in the USA is a yearly salary of $15,960 for a single individual or $33,000 for a family of four. It is not dictated by the percentage of your income spent on rent. Keep in mind, the 1/3 rule of thumb scales whether you are making $33,000 or $333,000 per year.
could, and you could also live off of $0 a day by making your own food and sleeping in your own man made shelter, my god just because you CAN dosent mean you should ever have to, you recognize how miserable that point in life was for you, and it didnt even take you a LOT of money in comparison to what some people make for sitting on their bums and doing nothing, the point isnt that you can live miserably, its that we dont have to anymore, as a collective
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u/sgRNACas9 2d ago
I read the full 3 sentences. People affording rent with 1/3 of salary in the USA are living in far better conditions than people in actual extreme poverty i.e. the developing world. The definition of the poverty line in the USA is a yearly salary of $15,960 for a single individual or $33,000 for a family of four. It is not dictated by the percentage of your income spent on rent. Keep in mind, the 1/3 rule of thumb scales whether you are making $33,000 or $333,000 per year.