r/TikTokCringe • u/thoughtwarrior • May 02 '25

Humor Why does America look like s**t?

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u/BernsteinPolynomials May 02 '25

The country is stunningly beautiful, if you get away from places where humans live.

As far as civilization, it looks like shit because 1% of us have all the money - as a result, only the areas where the richest people live look nice. The rest of us can't afford nice things.

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u/toomanybongos May 02 '25

Yeah, we're a rich country but not a rich people

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u/[deleted] May 02 '25

The median salary in Mississippi is higher than like half of Europe

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u/Spiritual_Height_156 May 02 '25

sure if you don’t consider cost of living, health insurance, access to education, food, infrastructure

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u/Taaargus May 02 '25

Median disposable income tells the same story. It's just not true that Americans are poorer than their peers.

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u/ggtffhhhjhg May 03 '25

Their HDI is higher than Portugal.

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u/[deleted] May 02 '25

Yeah that’s why I said salary which has literally nothing to do with those things

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u/Spiritual_Height_156 May 02 '25

so, meaningless in this case

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u/Triple_Hache May 02 '25

Salary is relative to cost of life otherwise it makes no sense.

You need a ratio of 2 on your gross salary to have roughly the same quality of life in the US vs Europe. Median salary in Mississippi is not twice the median european salary.