• Bernie2028@midwest.social
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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.