Poverty drama in r/news when one user suggest that even the poorest Americans are still better off than most people in the world. [x-post r/shitamericanssay] SubredditDrama

Are poor people just entitled or is OP an educational failure? Should America be compared to other developed nations or poorest nations of the world when measuring poverty? /r/news discusses...

Main thread: America's bottom 10% live better than 90% of the world

More specifically:

A discussion on the cherry-picking of statistics.

Does being poor preclude owning af refrigerator?

Bonus elsewhere in the thread:

Is median income a viable indicator of standart o fliving?

Credit goes to /u/WolfBiedermanRocks for finding the thread.

Submitted January 07, 2016 at 05:21PM by UnoriginalDickhead http://ift.tt/1O6DLkC SubredditDrama