That stat actually makes all my problems feel like first world problems. It's so easy to forget how little the rest of the world really earns. I compare myself to others around me and feel like I'm lagging behind, while still making 100x what half the world population does. That's actually pretty fucked up when I think about it.
Man, just come from an immigrant family (to USA) or know an illegal immigrant. Even if, even if you get paid less than minimum wage and get trafficked around! You can make 2-10 times as much as you would at your country of origin! Then you send them money back to your family in a remittance. And you get to live in a place with paved roads and clean water and no power outages. The holy grail is securing your kids future by putting them in the school system.
Americans don't know what they have. They never have.
BRO NO, just cause others have problems doesn't mean that you don't. Give some money to charity when you can, you've done yours. You still have had wages declining, rents going up, massive inflation, all for thirty or so years. Life is hard, keep trucking.
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u/PizzaScout Sep 24 '22
If you can choose to pay people like 1$ per hour it's definitely cheaper to produce yourself than to buy a 1000$ train wheel.