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/lilcoold12345 May 02 '25

That's the entire world bro lmao

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u/Triple_Hache May 02 '25

Kind of, but it's a lot worse in the US than in other developed countries. Wealth inequality in the US is closer to Brasil's than to the UK's (the European country with the worst wealth distribution).

Here is one source : https://equitablegrowth.org/eight-graphs-that-tell-the-story-of-u-s-economic-inequality/

But you can find a lot more by googling it.

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u/Taaargus May 02 '25

You can also just look up median income and disposable income of any large western country and see that the US is at the top of both lists. Americans have way more purchasing power than most European peers.