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Originally Posted by jmecklenborg
Because many groups in the United States, as a culture, spend money as soon as they make it on stupid stuff like drugs, alcohol, gambling, car stereos, dumb trips, etc. The cultures that save money (Jewish, German Catholic, most Asians, etc.) are endlessly mocked by the people who are broke.
A good chunk of the U.S. population busies itself with scamming government programs, scamming their landlords, scamming their employers. They cause problems just to file slip & fall lawsuits. They appear as "poor" in the data because they are and they're poor entirely because of the way they choose to live their lives.
For example, two years ago I was spraying weed killer at one of my properties and a poor mother instructed her kid to put his hands into the weed killer I just sprayed. She then started yelling at me and called the police. I got in my car and left. Luckily I have not seen her since.
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So you're agreeing that the US GDP per capita, income, making money are completely irrelevant to this discussion? Gambling, overdoses, plastic, stuff, overworking is not "wealth".
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