Submitted by darth_nadoma t3_zx1ln0 in Futurology
freemyslobs1337 t1_j26s10v wrote
Reply to comment by Jack04trades in Russians did such a good job promoting renewable energy and electric vehicles this year. by darth_nadoma
About 32% of Americans make less than 30k USD. This range, in America, is EXTREMELY poor. Like, 30k means you are in need of immediate financial assistance or you will die.
A 3 bedroom house in the US is worth anywhere from $300-900k dollars. I will NEVER own a home, period, full stop, nor will most of my generation.
Summer homes, as in second homes, which is something pretty unique to Russia, even if its mostly elders that own them.
Honestly, it actually seems for young people in the US (I exclude the older folks as they own literally everything and young people will NOT inherent most of it, only the ultra wealthy will own it, indeed a common way to retire here is to reverse mortgage your house (they pay until you die, then take the house), as well as the extreme costs associated with someone dying, most people will not inherent much ), the situation is damn near the same. Average income is lower than the cost of living by a good margin.
The numbers will speak for themselves - 8.2% of people in the US are food insecure, compared to 5.5 in Russia
It also appears, though data is limited, about the same rate of young Russians and Americans live at home with their parents.
Seems we are both in a pretty shit economic position.
Jack04trades t1_j27goxo wrote
Yes, i do agree. Imo its all because of the incompetent governments who instead of investing into yours and ours nation future, instead of making allies and unite, fight each other for decades, wasting our money for weapons and all other things we dont actually need. For example our army really have some problems with equipment, but thats not because its shit or something. Its because most of it being stollen by corrupted people and sold from our analogue of your ebay. They simply want to be hell wealthy and rich for exchange of someone lifecost.
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