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I recently had an exhaustive back and forth with a status quo warrior that said actually the poorest workers in the United States were spoiled and rich actually because the GDP was so dazzlingly high compared to other countries.
That was it. That was the entire basis of that smug asshole's argument. Rent and healthcare costs don't real. Rejoice, you ungrateful poors.
Isn't GDP a pretty bullshit metric in general? At least outside of the narrow thing its used to measure
There's always some chucklefuck that jumps in with "YoU'Re ThE gLoBaL 1%!"