Richest country in the world doesn't take care of its citizens. Funny how that works

It is almost like we are being scammed.

Hunter Thompson wrote "Hell's Angels" in 1967.

There's a passage about the economics of being a biker/hippie/dropout.

In those days, a biker could work six months as a union stevedore and then hit the road for two years. A part time waitress could could support herself and a live-in boy freind

Then Nixon/Reagan came in to save us.

Of course, a true kingdom requires impoverished serfs. Welcome to techno-feudalism.

America was a great experiment in maxing out capitalism and rugged individualism. Now all other countries know how it will end and to oust any politician even hinting at doing the same.

you all best buckle up, because it's gonna get a lot worse

That’s because we haven’t cut taxes for the rich quiiiite enough yet

"The middle class has been declining — we just haven't recognized it fully," LISEP Chairman Gene Ludwig told CBS MoneyWatch. "It's really dangerous because it's the kind of thing that leads to social unrest, and it's not fair. The American dream is not that it's given to you — it's that if you work hard, you have a chance to get ahead and achieve the things in life that you want to achieve. It's not living in a tent, not having to steal."

The wealthy always forget this, because they're convinced they're a special unique snowflake and smarter than everyone else, instead of understanding they were just lucky.

We knew this since the 70s

But you have millionaires who play kids games on tv and billionaire celebrities made famous by their looks or money, that go on to play government in real life in all your major political offices. Multi millionaire actors and starving paramedics. What an advanced society.

I have been saying this for a while. It seems like a really bad idea to push the most armed populous on the planet to the breaking point. One day the shooting is going start and it isn't going to stop.

Looks like it's time to eat the rich.

They have too much power and resources now. We aren't going to get a better quality of life through peaceful means.

By design, I'm sure. Can't have those poors even thinking about saving money.

Stock market gambling games and communism for the billionaires.

Social darwinist, survival of the fittest, ruthless exploitative capitalism for the poors.

No shit….

It takes $44,737 for a one-person household to maintain a "minimal quality of life"?

Stagnation of wages and increasing prices are causing a crisis, no doubt, but is that really the number we're looking at for a minimum?

According to this, I've only ever personally known (at least well enough to know their income) two people affording a 'minimal quality of life'.

They can't afford bread?

Let them eat cake.

I have friends in their 30s who were surprised about maxing out their IRA because where are they going to get an extra $6k?

"Sound like the perfect time to cut Medicaid" -Republican Congress

Which country has the highest millionaires in the world?

The U.S

To convince more people, it may help to have an analysis that doesn't include celebratory dinners, eating out, physical television, etc. The inclusion of those things are either a drop in the bucket or have good enough rationales, but too many Americans are too dumb to accept that.

Y'all needed a study to find this out! Y'all could have just asked me and saved a whole bunch of time!

"For the bottom 60% of U.S. households, a "minimal quality of life" is out of reach"

Is this for real? Sounds odd to me.

Y’all got options you just won’t do it.