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jaidamack
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eramdam
@eramdam

USians are famously oblivious to non-USians issues but like

Europeans seeing an American salary, and not going beyond “well it’s 2x what I make here so they must be filthy rich therefore it’s too much” is also infuriating for the opposite reasons.

Yes, British, French or Italian person, please tell us that an USian making 80K/yr is making too much while also forgetting about the lack of safety nets and the terrible U.S. healthcare system that can bankrupt almost anyone oh and also your boss can legally fire you overnight because the U.S. is super good at busting unions.

All I’m saying is: nobody is immune to being dumb when they’re speaking out of their depth.

(I’m French and moved to the U.S., therefore I am immune and weak to both sides lmao)

jaidamack
@jaidamack

As a Kiwi having lived in both the UK and the EU,

Socrates ain't shit, I know I'm a genius and eeeverybody else is dumb as rocks.

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NireBryce
@NireBryce

and they also miss that affordable luxuries are there partially to guilt people into non-action because they 'have it good' or 'have it way better than those countries with good healthcare' even though every other fee and cost is absurdly high

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eramdam
@eramdam

I can only speak to France but like. SF rent prices were legit 2x the prices I’d see in Paris when I moved 8yrs ago. Granted the average studio is bigger but still (everything is tiny in Paris because Paris is tiny in comparison)

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001zlnv
@001zlnv

Don't even need to be in the city for the rent to suck. I'm in northern New Jersey. Because we have a transit system that goes to nyc we get spill over garbage rents. Im paying $1475 for the smallest cheapest place that will not actively kill me. This is just under half my take home pay per month.

Add on to that needing to have a car because transit can't get me to or from work in less than 2 hours and there's the first pay check of the month gone and part of the second for things that I can't reduce.

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aliengeo
@aliengeo

According to a calculator I found online, $80K works out to about $38.50 per hour. My municipal government says $20/hr is the living wage in my area. So where I live $80K yearly salary is not even 2x the minimum you need for a standard of living.

Crucially, a billion dollars is more than 24000x the living wage, and 24000 > ~2.

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Dragaroths-hideaway
@Dragaroths-hideaway

Another insane thing that I feel even other USians forget about the US.
we are the equivalent of 50 countries.

full stop.
nothing is the same across the board.
nothing in one part means its the same in another part.
please remember, everyone, we are 50 countries in a trench coat acting like 1 big country.

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