What Makes Being Poor in The United States Suck?

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Dusk said:

sc94597 said:

This is ridiculous. There are so many other things Americans care about than things and money, not that these joys in life are bad thing. Additionally, one of the merits of the U.S is that social class doesn't exist to the extent of economic class. Doctors and waiters can be best friends, and often are. So I don't know where you got the impression the poor are treated like crap. Also can you name me a first world country that doesn't incorporate capitalist modes of production?

Americans as people yes. As a culture and social system, not so much. That's what it's based on. 

Just because someone is a waiter, it doesn't make them poor. Just because someone is a Doctor, it doesn't make them rich. 

I'm talking poor. Below poverty. That of course has its merit in different parts of the country as well and with how much the classes vary can be a factor too. I'm not American, but I have traveled through much of the US and from my personal experiences, that is what I saw. It's how people were treated, how they were looked at. People that lived in poor parts of areas weren't treated well. 

China. Of course the use of first, second, third world countries isn't really used anymore. China has becomes the worlds largest economy. 

The majority of waiters are below the poverty line. The majority of doctors make more than 100k. The U.S is number one for voluntary charity. I have never experienced being treated poorly because of the income of my family. Sure impoverished areas are looked own upon, but that is more due to the associated cultures that the income level. 

 

China adopted capitalist modes of production in the 1980s. The effect was that their people stopped starving. Meanwhile in capitalist Hong Kong, the freest market in the world, the income levels of the population increased at unprecedented rates, and the quality of life was much better than mainland China.