re: Do Americans Know What a Massive Ripoff American Life Really Is?

America has basically become an oligarch at this point, you have the corporations and ultra rich buying lobbyists and politicians through backroom deals, donations, among other tactics. The media also has become the biggest cheerleader for the new oligarchs, watch anytime some bill is proposed that would vastly benefit the middle class and poor. We get the same old argument, "Oh how can we afford this or oh this is socialism", you never hear this when massive bailouts are proposed or we invade a new country of course not.

Speaking of "socialism" let's talk about some actual socialism. Why is it that if people want everyone to have access to proper healthcare there's always this ridiculous take about how we'd basically be Venezuela or Cuba. But, when we spend trillions on wars Americans don't want or we use tax payer money to bail out companies that were doing shady shite that's not socialism at all when it's quite literally socialism for the rich.

And the media does this great little trick too, to distract Americans from all this shady shite. Get your average voter worked up about random bullshite like statues or mean tweets meanwhile the oligarchy just keeps on chugging along


TL:DR America is currently and has been run by an very wealthy few who love bailing each other out and using taxpayer money for their own interests and have used the media to distract the average American into thinking their fellow Americans are the true enemy because they vote dfferently

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I’ve recently moved to the States

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Then go back home. We dont want you.

I aint reading that bullshite...frick her

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Umair haque

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Born to be wild

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They go into debt. Deeply into debt. So deep that the average American now dies underwater to the tune of about $60,000. They’ve spent a lifetime paying off debts that they can never fully make good on — precisely because the system is rigged against them.

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This part is BS too. Average net worth here is $746K with the median net worth at $121K. Older Americans usually have much higher net worth. Only the very poor or young die in debt.

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How much do I pay for internet and TV in Europe? About thirty dollars, give or take. How much do I pay in America? $150. 

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My internet bill is 20 Euros ,but it is only DSL speeds. I live in the center of Nürnberg and that is all that is available where I live. Where high-speed internet is available you pay for it along with a mandatory 20 Euros a month per household for regular TV. Germany is really lacking there in many areas with high speed internet.

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Let’s take utility bills. They’re astronomical in America compared to the rest of the rich world, and even much of the rest of the world period. Heating, electricity, gas, water? These things can easily add up to $500 to $1000 dollars per month. That’s not even factoring in property taxes and maintenance costs and whatnot. Americans have no idea, but in Europe I’d pay maybe — maybe — half that, if even that much.

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This is an outright lie... I can tell you for a fact that that heating, electricity, gas, water, maintenance, and taxes are significantly higher in Europe. My wife and I own 28 rental properties in Germany. This statement is full of shite.

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 I don’t get the wonderful and illuminating and sparkling stuff that European TV makes on a regular basis, from good coverage of global affairs to politics to economics to ground-breaking shows and movies. 

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The media here is almost as bad as ours.

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How much does it cost to just…have a place to live? The average American rental is about $1200. That’s for an apartment. Again, that’s a particularly high figure. It doesn’t cost that much to rent in Europe. In France, the the average house rental costs less than that — it’s about 800 euros, or maybe $1000 dollars.

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That depends on where you live and how much space you have. A woman my wife works with pays for a small 2 bedroom apartment in Munich 1600 Euros cold.

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The sad truth is that nobody can afford to live that way, at least not in a modern society. We know that because the average American doesn’t. They go into debt. Deeply into debt. So deep that the average American now dies underwater to the tune of about $60,000. They’ve spent a lifetime paying off debts that they can never fully make good on — precisely because the system is rigged against them.

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The sad truth is that many Americans are too stupid to manage money and do not understand their economic reality. This guy who wrote this is an idiot and most people in the Western World who are poor it is because of shitty money management.

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They’ve spent a lifetime paying off debts that they can never fully make good on — precisely because the system is rigged against them.

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You know what’s gotten really expensive?



Columbian hookers.


Very expensive these days.

Then go live somewhere else ya cuck.

He has a point about internet though. The internet I had in Japan was half the price and just as fast as my LUS fiber internet and 2× the speed of the Comcast I had in Texas.

He’s not wrong….we paid 3200$ a month once for a 2 BR apt in Arlington, va…. 2300 for 700 sqft apt in downtown dc for 2 years.