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boonhet@sopuli.xyz 3 weeks agoOkay, this is going to be a completely off topic rant, but:
Being a millionaire doesn’t mean shit anymore. It means you own a house in a city and are a well paid professional.
That is an incredibly privileged thing to be able to say tbh.
It’s also why any young-ish American complaining they’re poor should shut the hell up. I’d be on track to becoming a millionaire if I was allowed to do my job in the US. But the country doesn’t want me, I’m too white to even consider an H-1B, those all go to Indian folk lol
In my country, to become a millionaire, I need to set up a business, scam people, and do tax evasion. Because the salaries in my field are at LEAST 5x lower. Remember when the big tech companies hired people out of boot camps and gave them 200k annual salaries? Those guys would’ve gotten hired at 1200-1500 a month here at the same time.
Ah, but since our salaries are lower, cost of living must be low too? Nope, actually cost of living in a nice and “cheap” American city like San Francisco is only 50% more than CoL in our capital.
I would’ve given a lot to spend my 20s being a software engineer in the US and then fuck off to a country with a nice climate, good healthcare and low cost of living before any actual need for the healthcare kicks in. Just wasn’t in the cards for me though.
Skullgrid@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
how? I’m pointing out the financial situation has gone to such shit that having a house and a profession that pays what a profession is worth would make you a millionaire.
Note that I’m not saying that all professionals are millionaires or own houses; which is the fucked up part. No one is paying what things are fucking worth.
boonhet@sopuli.xyz 3 weeks ago
8.5% of Americans are millionaires. There are a few countries even higher than that, but in general, it’s significantly higher than most places in the world.
Put it this way: More than 50% of the entire world’s millionaires (in USD of course, not local currency) are Americans. But Americans are only ~4% of the world’s population.
It really is the land of opportunity IF you’re a professional doing… something.
Skullgrid@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
ok, so why are you busting my balls? I don’t own a house , nor do I live in the US. Why are you saying I’m privilaged for pointing out that my fucking meager existence wouldn’t be all that impressive even if I was a millionaire, and that these fucking US comedians are undercharging the saudi pricks for the whitewashing they are doing?
boonhet@sopuli.xyz 3 weeks ago
I said it’s off topic and Americans need to start realising how good they actually have it financially. Just need to actually be good at something and that’s it.