Why are americans so poor?

Why are americans so poor?
They had no war on their soil for like 200 years.
They should be as wealthy as the Swiss by now

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Some of them are

>Americans consider her white
Lmaoooooooooooo

Looks like a comfy place to live.
If they were close enough to town, work and an Internet connection, it would be fucking brilliant.

Continent sized country with no socialism.

Every other country has poor backwaters like this. R-right?

The difference is not all Americans are greedy penny-pinching cunts like the Swiss.

Microstates are easier to manage. There'll inevitably be some poverty and inequality in any large country.

>no war for 200 years
You are vastly understating the importance of the Civil War. Nearly every piece of important infrastructure in the southern US was destroyed, and any hope of the South being economically succesful without a miracle was burned with it.

I wish states were a bit more like cantons
>tfw will never move to Switzerland

That doesn't look so bad, I would unironically live there

>that poor hillbilly probably lives on the same area as a small town in Central Europe and that shack is probably the same square footage as a middle class European apartment.

Well it's Appalachia so she's most likely 100% Scots-Irish or lower class English ancestory. If that's white is up to your opinion.

>They should be as wealthy as the Swiss by now
I doubt she'll ever want to eat that dog like the Swiss.

(((someone))) is stealing their wealth

Mate look at her, she looks nothing like the Irish

As a whole, we're the richest country on earth, but that wealth is obviously not evenly distributed. Your average family in West Virginia or Mississippi is likely poorer than one from Washington or New York.

Also, we spend A LOT of our tax money on the military.

Germany got it worse and recovered in a quarter of the time

Is this serious or are they being ironic?

The American society is at constant war with itself. What do you expect from a country that keeps the poor as poor as possible so the rich can be a little richer?

What percentage of your total tax do you actually spend on the military?

...

Seems like this would be perfectly normal in any other time in history. It's only because America is so insanely rich that they're military can be massive enough that we can afford to underfund all our militaries

>what is the Marshall plan
And that was with improved building technology made in the 1940s, this was back in 1860. The North barely made an effort to rebuild.

That's probably a cabin rather than their main home. It's pretty common and they are usually less than modern since you only really spend a couple of weeks at them a year. Fishing, chilling on the beach, playing boardgames.

>200 years
2017-1865=152
>152 years
Kraut can't count

That says Appalachia not Adirondacks.

Not to mention Germans didn't have to change the focus of their entire economy, just rebuild it. The South was basically one giant cotton plantation and the policies the North established were very harmful for that.

I don't follow you.

Capitalism

Nobody has cabins out in Appalachia. I know what you're referring to and this is not like that.

>appalachia
What the fuck? My neighborhood is in Appalachia. This is what it looks like from up here.

Dead serious.

Foreigners don't know about our Civil War that much, specifically just how many lives were lost or how much was destroyed.

I'm no history major but I wouldn't be surprised if the American Civil War was the bloodiest Civil War in world history.

Americans are just so generous they give away all their money to the bankers. God bless them

Didn't more Rwandans gets slaughtered in a few days during their recent civil war?

Thank doge America sits on so many natural resources.

They are so free that their "left" doesnt even think of socialism

>American Civil War
>bloodiest Civil War in world history
Even small ass African countries will end up with 2 million kill counts during their civil war. You really are making us look bad.

>any hope of the South being economically succesful without a miracle was burned with it.
It was already a mess. Most of the rails used different gauges. The infrastructure was based around plantations and shipping of the plantations goods. The main crop was sold heavily to the British textile industry and the British cotton plantations in India would be ready around 1880. The south was inevitably going to collapse economically and had backwards infrastructure compared to the north. The Civil War just quickened it's demise.

What's wild is that the population during the civil war was less than a quarter what is was at ww2

Bombing sheep shaggers at the end of the world is more important than helping their poor compatriots.

The US is huge and geographically diverse, with some areas richer than Switzerland. We've had less time as a "rich" country and the larger your country is, the harder and longer it takes for it to develop evenly.

Switzerland is super tiny and they've benefited from a longer history and more time to develop their society's social infrastructure for their small population.

16% but the problem is a lot of Americans stupidly believe this meme pie chart on the internet that is constantly debunked unlike what the Norwegian posted.

politifact.com/truth-o-meter/statements/2015/aug/17/facebook-posts/pie-chart-federal-spending-circulating-internet-mi/

If Appalachia is bad then explain this.

>literal cardboard houses
lmao

That's brick mate

>with some areas richer than Switzerland
are you talking about gated communities?

West Virginia has long been pretty isolated from the rest of the US, and relies almost entirely on coal mining and other unskilled labor jobs.

The world just kind of passed them by as the US moved to service-based industry with the need for a college education.

It's not. It's plastic siding made to look like brick.

We learned from the best. :-)

Tell me that's not a real thing

No you didn't.

Yes, those are still part of the country and contribute to our statistics.

No, it's actual brick. I know because I live in the neighborhood, dumbass.

well yeah, but i dont think its fair to compare american upper class people to swiss average

Population of Switzerland: 8 million

I bet you I can find 8 million people in this country living better than a Swiss greedy fuck

I bet you I can also find 8 million people in this country living worse than Albanian underground sex ringers

It is.

Show me MLS data proving it is.

we spend like 1 trillion dollars just maintining bases in your country and another 3 trillion scattered around the world, our last 48 bombs cost us 60 million dollars. If we spread the money out to our citizens like a commie euro state who has nothing to worry about, yea we'd be taking care of cows like the swiss. But we don't have that luxury.

but can you find a state in america where people on average are more wealthy than swiss?

USA BTFO

Why? Is it really that hard to believe that Appalachia isn't poor as shit? We aren't Kansas where we make our houses out of cardboard just for them to be destroyed by tornadoes to collect that insurance paycheck.

>close down bases on foreign soil
>send soldiers back home
>...

You're not even American, why do you care?

"Scots-Irish" is a dumb yankism for Border people.

You realise Germans are basically peasants by American standards?
Europe in general is poor compared to the US

It's difficult because the only available statics for Swiss are average household and median per person and the only ones available for individual states are median household and per capita, but assuming the median household is double the median per person both Maryland and New Jersey have higher incomes.

Because they're building lots of high end developments like the ones you posted where I live and they're all wood.

then how do you explain OPs pic?

>bunch of greedy multimillionaires raise US average income disproportionally
>HURR THEY ALL RICH
>worse general education than here
>worse social security than here
>worse poverty than here
>worse debts than here
>worse crime than here
>worse violence than here

:^)

that's one shack in appalachia, the poorest region of the US.

This looks like your average Eastern European dwelling

>Muh poverty doesn't exist in yurop

Border people?

In the Netherlands you cannot really become homeless though.
You can always get a roof and welfare.

how can it be?
I heard so much about all the homeless in american cities

Why is the eternal g*rman always so butthurt? At least with Brits and Aussies you know they're just messing around.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Border_Reivers

Only you spend all your welfare money on drugs.

You have Roma and many refugees who skew your statistics because they can't legally get housing and sleep in the streets.

Bogan

Germans are such huge juice cucks you cant even name them now
can you name your cuck masters?
say Juice

centuries of inbreeding mate
i would know
no seriously, same area, genetic bottleneck, too poor to move elsewhere, no interaction, same genes

sad and true

kek

literally explaining to us how he is a juice cuck
doing the dirty for them
say thanks to,juice overlords after you lick them clean ok

*Only if

No it's Protestants from Northern Ireland that came as indentured servants. When their servitude was up all the good coastal lands were claimed so they moved westward. Unless that's what you mean by border people. They are also associated with creating country music from folk music of the British Isles.

It just baffles me how such a rich country as USA can treat their poorest people so badly

This might blow your mind but having a black population three times the size of the former DDR noticeably warps the averages.

From what I gather, Americans are on average(mind what this term means mathematically) richer than many europeans, and richer than all of the eastern europeans. However, America does not have a middle class in which most are included. Even people with university degrees are struggling. It's generally said that the "middle class" is getting smaller and smaller. USA have a lot of extremely rich people, and an upper-mid class that brings up the average a lot, while a fuckton of americans are really fucking poor. There are more poor people than there are "middle class" people, which is pretty insane.

Take this with a grain of salt though, because I only know this because I know a few americans who have told me this(they all say the same thing tho, and they don't know each other)

They had to use their money to fix YOUR SHITHOLES, instead of their own shitholes. If it weren't for America you would be Moldova-tier.

I dont see how the skin-color is relevant in our discussion

How the fuck can you be poor in America? just move your fatass to a developed town or city and contribute.

Yeah so Scots

The Border people were the ones moved to Northern Ireland on order of James I in an attempt to calm the Border because they were so lawless. There isn't anything Irish about them other than that they lived there for a brief time.

>treat

They treat themselves like that. But I wouldn't expect a German to understand individualism anyway.

Mate she's fucking brown

Cell reception outside of bigger towns and major roads in west Virginia is non existent

I doubt that is as it's the whole home but since I worked in a home DIY store, I can tell you for a small area you can get a decorative peice that's vinyl and looks like brick or stone (it goes over the area instead of normal siding). They also sell similar prices that have thin layers of actual brick or stone.

American rich (15% of the population) are richer than Europeans

American middle class (70% of the population) is around the same as most Europeans, not as good as Nordic countries however

American poor (15% of the population) are on average poorer than most Europeans by a substantial margin. The absolute poorest (5% of the population) are as poor as the average poor person in Eastern Europe.

>treat

Because the groups possessing that "skin colour" perform very poorly by almost all national health metrics.

Problem with these rural hick types is

>A new coal mine or factory opens up
>Town is created beside coal mine
>Coal or factory gets shut down because useless
>People refuse to leave, cling onto their "smalltown pride" and refuse to move to a major city with better opportunities

its this dumbfuck thinking that's so common in these rural shitholes. In canada everyone's either in a suburb or city if you aren't a farming/tourist town/inuit or native. even the places that do logging or oil extraction still mostly has everyone living in a major town or city.

They choose to live like that. Unless they lost their jobs they have brand new appliances and entertainment systems.

luckily for you, we don't, cause I am sure otherwise Germans would be far more reluctant to see their tax money going to eastern europe as development money