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[–] 4 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (2 children)

You're thinking of mean average salaries. A greater percentage of Americans make minimum wage (or less) than Canadians, and Canadian minimum wage is higher.

There are a small group of rich people offsetting this notion of "Americans get less public services because they make sooo much more money"

Edit: my mistake, I was thinking of how many Americans make less than the Canadian minimum wage, because the American minimum wage is so laughably low

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  • [–] 2 points 1 week ago

    No, I’m thinking of salaries for comparable roles.

    I’m not really making any statement about the vast wealth inequality in the USA, beyond pointing out that 200k on the coasts can be scraping by while a quarter of that in the “heartland” can be comfortable.

    I didnt push the notion that we get less because we make more, we get less … we also make more … they are not related excepting to pull down what “we make more” means.

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