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BenBen, why the profile picture? Whhhhhyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyy

How about changing it to something less vulgar and offensive like garbage or feces?

It doesnt matter what USD equals in another country. Burger flipping here still means nothing here. For example. I worked at a fast food chicken place for a year, I couldnt afford an apartment or anything on my own even working 20 hours a week. I was homeless everyother month, slept on any couch i could get.

Any financial aid I could wasnt enough because it would only lead me to living in housing that was no better than being homeless. All the whole working fast food. I dont care what USD means somewhere else. It doesnt go as far here. 1 USD can mean 1 million somewhere else, it's still only 1 here. Stop watching Hollywood if you cant grasp this simple concept

but what if you burger flip next to the border of Mexico and catch the next flatbed back home and become the richest Hombre in town

and for the record, i put my boy Trump's face on for purely nonsensical reasons. i have my own political views on the guy, just that i don't want to talk about it. not that I'm uncomfortable, just that it's easy to lose friends over a simple disagreement over politics these days.

Personally, I don't find Trump all that bad. Most people who hate him reference racism and so on, as well as his behavior. .first off, no one can ever provide me with video or articles or interviews proving racism. It's always he said she said crap.

As apresident, he has done nothing exceptionally bad to warrant the hate beyondd typical liberal bias. And since dems own most media outlets in America, obviously no news agency will report anything non biased. Your naive if you think news is really impartial

And as for his handling of Corona, I find it amusing that everyone can judge someone in a position of power and dictate how they would have done better, and most have never even been in a leadership role in a fucking class project, much less a country. Its easy to criticize when it's not you.

Well, some people I know from poorer countries told me that the idea of "costs of living in our poorer countries are lower so lower wages are okay" is not the truth. It's just that people in those countries and situations adapt to life without money, but in the US everything is about price gouging. When people go online to shop, it's the same price for people around the world.

Like things aren't cheaper online just because somebody lives in a country where "the cost living" is "cheaper". They grow food, live with their families rather than rent, don't travel, don't purchase luxury or entertainment goods, etc.

Dont know or care about price of living in other countries since I haven't been there and likely never will. All I know is ive had nothing, lived with nothing, and had to literally claw for trivial things. And I'm American. And talk of online buying doesnt mean anything to me. Different convo

HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA

you try burgerflipping in southeast asia. you wouldn't even be able to afford a toothbrush. a guy I know that works in the local Mcdonalds shares a bedroom with the 7/11 cashier next door; in the same storage room of that 7/11.

"Dont know or care"

Uh, alright then. Don't talk about other countries like you know and care? LOL

Please. Slept in an alley two streets over from the place I worked at. Cleaned my clothes in a stream in a secluded area. NYC has rivers but I'm not near one. Not that I'm aware of anyway. Big city. Slept in an abandoned car for a few weeks until someone torched it and then the city towed it off.

Im pretty sure I made no reference to any other country. You did. I just disputed your argument of what the average USD fast food salary meant somewhere else and how it didn't matter what it equaled to. I never mentioned anything about any other country.

discount_blade is correct to some degree. no matter how rich your currency is compared to other nations, you're still considered poor in your own country. the only way you can change that fact is that if you catch the next boat to India or anywhere eastward, and that's stepping into crime territory

you literally don't have enough to change your economic setting. legally, at least.

Exactly Ben. So many seem to be unable to grasp such a simple thing. It amazes me. But Americans are the stupid ones XD.

Hmmm, I see, but honestly you're making it sound like a competition. The slums in Brazil are worse. The slums in many countries are worse. There is also a particular issue that is endemic to a few cities, especially New York, being one of the world's most expensive cities to live in. This is a problem of of high rent cost.

How am I making it a competition? You just mentioned countries AND said they were worse. YOU are competing. You cant possibly know what is and what isnt worse. YOU dont know anything unless you've experienced it firsthand. To ACT like you do is the height of arrogance. Let's not be hypocritical now shall we?

Well, it's still different. Americans typically don't have the same mobility issues that other country's citizens have, meaning they can move somewhere else, not even a different country, just within their own, to a place with better living standards. Continuing to try live in one of the most expensive cities in the world without a professional career+wage is scary?