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1. nixCraft 🐧 (nixcraft@mastodon.social)'s status on Monday, 24-Feb-2025 16:19:16 JST nixCraft 🐧

   how to escape poverty based on where you live in the world. this is brutal. also the United States has the most billionaires in the world.

   • ElectroFetish (electrofetish@mastodon.social)'s status on Monday, 24-Feb-2025 16:29:32 JST ElectroFetish

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     @nixCraft Serbian proverb
     In war, politicians give bullets, the rich give food, and the poor give their children. When the war ends, the politicians pick up the remaining bullets and shake hands, the rich raise food prices, and the poor look for the graves of their children.

   • Eser Sevinç (esersevinc@mastodon.social)'s status on Monday, 24-Feb-2025 16:43:11 JST Eser Sevinç

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     @nixCraft As someone who lives in Turkey, I must point out that this graph is inaccurate for my country.
     The poverty line corresponds to 3.27 minimum wages.
     The working week is 45 hours.
     So to earn at the poverty line, a person would have to work 45x3,27=147 hours.
     For the hunger threshold, it corresponds to 1 minimum wage, which is 45 hours.
     No matter how we look at it, the graph is wrong.

   • Ronaldo Pires (ronaldopires@mastodon.social)'s status on Monday, 24-Feb-2025 16:44:47 JST Ronaldo Pires

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     @nixCraft After revealing critical condition, Vatican says Pope had "peaceful" night
     https://ronaldopires411.blogspot.com/p/apos-revelar-estado-critico-vaticano.html

   • Fernando Tona 🇵🇹 🇻🇪 (fernandotona@mastodon.social)'s status on Monday, 24-Feb-2025 17:24:32 JST Fernando Tona 🇵🇹 🇻🇪

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     @nixCraft inaccurate for Poortugal my country. You need around at least +50% the median salary to be considered middle class. And still it doesn't mean you'll have where to live.

     https://www.theportugalnews.com/news/2025-02-22/portugal-most-difficult-country-to-afford-a-house/95779

   • eickot (eickot@mastodon.social)'s status on Monday, 24-Feb-2025 17:29:06 JST eickot

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     @nixCraft I don't know how this is done, but as Spanish I fully disagree on the spanish row.

   • Mr. Lance E Sloan (sloanlance@mastodon.social)'s status on Monday, 24-Feb-2025 18:09:25 JST Mr. Lance E Sloan

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     @nixCraft
     It's not "HOW" to escape poverty, but rather the number of hours to do so.

   • Dejan Tesic (dtxoz@mastodon.social)'s status on Monday, 24-Feb-2025 18:53:51 JST Dejan Tesic

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     @nixCraft Nice infographic, doesn't look very convincing tho.

   • bqra (dwfo@mastodon.social)'s status on Monday, 24-Feb-2025 19:00:56 JST bqra

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     @nixCraft Why do Japanese people work so much, then? Something doesn't add up.

   • noraa (noraawa@mastodon.social)'s status on Monday, 24-Feb-2025 20:33:11 JST noraa

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     @nixCraft I don't think many people understand what minimum wage does. It makes it unprofitable for me to work.

     I'd love to work for ten bucks an hour. But I can't. The minimum is twenty. I made six figures most of my career. Now I can't work because it's cheaper for me to 'not work'. I can't afford to make 15-20 bucks an hour. I would earn less take-home money that way. I think that there should be exceptions.

     I also don't think that people agree what 'poverty' means. I've been homeless.

   • Markus Jacobus Gravesteijn (mjgravesteijn@mastodon.social)'s status on Monday, 24-Feb-2025 23:45:21 JST Markus Jacobus Gravesteijn

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     @nixCraft This data-driven comparison highlights the vast differences in economic structures and social policies. Countries with stronger social protections and higher wages ensure that minimum-wage workers can escape poverty more easily, while nations with lower minimum wages and weaker social support require significantly more labor to reach financial stability. Great overview!