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by Toutouxc 1337 days ago
What are you even talking about? The median yearly take home pay (sorry, don't know the right word for it) in my middle-of-the-pack EU country is around $16k.

Let me say that again, this country is in 35th place out of 193 by GDP per capita and this is how much people make here.
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noahtallen 1337 days ago
Yeah, my bad. My comment is very US-centric. At the same time, cost of living is likely much higher in the US, so that also makes a difference in the comparison.

Anyways, median income in the US is near $50k/yr (around $1k/week: https://www.bls.gov/news.release/pdf/wkyeng.pdf)

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xxpor 1337 days ago
People in the US don't realize how rich we are because we spend the money extremely poorly.

California's GDP will exceed Germany's soon. With less than half of the population. That'll make it the 4th largest economy in the world.

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