• GaveUp [she/her]@hexbear.net
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    29% of people who are not objectively poor feel subjectively poor?

    I said that amount is livable in China. That study is about people’s feelings. Hardly related

    Not to mention I work in Silicon Valley as a software engineer and it’s literally common for people here to be making 200-400k to complain about being poor and not saving much all the time

    How many people living in the Midwest or the south on a 20k salary do you think would feel subjectively poor?

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      1 year ago

      Conveniently ignoring the fact a $3.3k salary isn’t livable anywhere in America.

      Spoiled middle class westerners complaining about being poor is totally different LMAO. Americans will complain about being poor when living in a decent house in suburb, being poor is seen totally different in 2nd and 3rd world countries that are, yknow, struggling much moreso.

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        1 year ago

        Conveniently ignoring the fact a $3.3k salary isn’t livable anywhere in America.

        Well that’s why the American poverty line has been calculated to be 14500

        14500 is the poverty line in America and 845 is the poverty line in China

        PPP isn’t a perfect comparison between every single combination of all 200 countries in the entire world

        But the poverty line is specifically calculated for every single country

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          Lol. $845/yr is the number the CCP conveniently made up to make poverty rates seem lower than they actually are. If the poverty line was the same as comparable countries to China, it would be almost double ($5.50 a day instead of $2.30, or adjusted for PPP $8k/yr instead of $3.3k).

          Despite the fact that China is classified as an upper-middle income country, China’s official poverty line is only a little higher than the universal global poverty line. Applying the World Bank upper-middle income poverty line of $5.50/day to China would mean almost a quarter of Chinese still live in poverty.