Is the US a poor country? All the info I've found online seems to be misleading

Is the US a poor country? All the info I've found online seems to be misleading

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No just some people are lazy and can't think for the future/save so theyre poor

BECAUSE RICH PEOPLE ARE NEVER LAZY

Poverty in the US is comparable to other 1st world countries, so no.

no, poverty is relative. poor americans are still better off compared to middle class in a poor country in most cases

not an argument

but poor americans don't live in a poor country

>All the info I've found online
Hit only government web-sites. I'm too lazy to read all.

census.gov/library/publications/2015/demo/p60-252.html
>In 2014, the official poverty rate was 14.8 percent. There were 46.7 million people in poverty. Neither the poverty rate nor the number of people in poverty were statistically different from the 2013 estimates.
>For the fourth consecutive year, the number of people in poverty at the national level was not statistically different from the previous year’s estimates.
>The 2014 poverty rate was 2.3 percentage points higher than in 2007, the year before the most recent recession.

Poverty in statistics means they live below certain purchasing power. So if they don't have this power in USA, it doesn't make the situation better tha they could afford more in Belarus. I don't know their standards though.

I think his point was that the person "in poverty" in the US is like upperclass in much of the world.

Despite being so-called, "poor" they have modern smartphones, $500 "Jawdinz" and usually a car

>44 million
>99%
But there's only like 300 million Americans.

no it isnt

Then they have weird poverty standards misleading people.

That's correct, it is indeed misleading.

No, poverty here gets you a shitty apartment and food on the table. Americans don't have any concept of being dirt poor.

I keep seeing the "they have technology they're not poor" line. Smartphones are cheap now and affordable for pretty much everyone. I've never heard of a poor person spending 500 on shoes and cars are a necessity for most people if they want to get a job. Piece of shit car for 2000

No we're just a really big country

Like really really big

Do you have huge slums like Brazil or India?

If not, then no, the US isn't poor.

We have inner city ghettoes and poor rural areas.
You're just absolute shit tier

And for the record, your ghettoes are heaven compared to a fucking favela.

>favela
I've asked Brazilians on here about that. A lot of them say people prefer to live in favelas

Nah they do

A lot of poor people buy luxury goods, think niggers. It's a stereotype but a lot of people are in debt PRECISELY from that.

They've got this huge ass favela called Detroit

If they're given the option to live in the favela, right next to the city and where they work, or some government-built housing unit in the outskirts of the city, I don't doubt many would prefer the favela.
They don't even have to pay taxes since it's technically not their property they're living in, they invaded some terrain (public or otherwise) and built a shack.

Everybody thinks of places like Detroit but the vast majority of blacks still live in the south.
They aren't as uppity and angry in the south though because the class divide isn't nearly as large and it's much more desegregated.

>ask if the richest country is the poorest country

Id love to see poverty by race stats

Can anyone pull those up? I want to test the hypothesis of blacks dragging US statistics down

Here ya go.

federalsafetynet.com/us-poverty-statistics.html

>Asians are the lowest denomination
>FeelsGood.jpeg

>Can anyone pull those up? I want to test the hypothesis of blacks dragging US statistics down
They drag every statistic down, the worst part is that they don't improve the way other poor immigrants eventually do.

What do blacks even produce?

Seems like they cause a whole lot of strain (prison pops, welfare recipients, 50% of the murder, etc) but while all other immigrants create something blacks don't seem to have that

Are they even human?

What would the US lose if every single black disappeared tomorrow, and what would it gain?

>le poverty means you live on the street and dumpster dive for food meme
That's extreme poverty.

>In Australia the OECD poverty [definition] would equate to a "disposable income of less than $358 per week for a single adult (higher for larger households to take account of their greater costs)
One could still live relatively comfortably on $360 a week in Aus.

Honestly the sense of poverty/desperation I've seen in your big cities (in person, not just spouting memes) is pretty crazy to most Europeans I think.

That said a lot of you are very well off, too.

yes, and these same people refuse to leave the city even when better jobs await them

A simple number isn't going to tell you anything. There's also a wide wealth disparity in this country.

Notice that large wealth gaps lead to revolutions and political crises.