'Part 1: My Life Is a LieHow a Broken Benchmark Quietly Broke America'https://www.yesigiveafig.com/p/part-1-my-life-is-a-lie'nVery good short essay about living as a household of four in 2025.
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'Part 1: My Life Is a Lie
How a Broken Benchmark Quietly Broke America'
https://www.yesigiveafig.com/p/part-1-my-life-is-a-lieVery good short essay about living as a household of four in 2025. This explains a lot about the material conditions the people actually struggle with. Give it a read!
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'Part 1: My Life Is a Lie
How a Broken Benchmark Quietly Broke America'
https://www.yesigiveafig.com/p/part-1-my-life-is-a-lieVery good short essay about living as a household of four in 2025. This explains a lot about the material conditions the people actually struggle with. Give it a read!
Things could be a lot better in Germany.
But we can always say: "At least we don't live in the USA!"
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Things could be a lot better in Germany.
But we can always say: "At least we don't live in the USA!"
you can say that and ignore, that in Germany the definition of poverty is *also* arbitrary (60% of median income, or ~36k€/a after taxes) and too low, at least for densly urban regions.
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you can say that and ignore, that in Germany the definition of poverty is *also* arbitrary (60% of median income, or ~36k€/a after taxes) and too low, at least for densly urban regions.
Definitely, a lot of things are bad in Germany.
But they haven't reached the level of an US-style shit show, either. Although I suspect #Merz will try to get there.
