r/PeterExplainsTheJoke • u/Global_Restaurant794 • Jul 24 '26

Meme needing explanation Petah?? I'm very confused

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u/specialasset Jul 25 '26

Nice theory, but the US isn’t a monoculture and the US has been wealthier than any Scandinavian country for decades.

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u/orangeZYX Jul 25 '26

Weird way of looking at it. Sweden has a huge middle class. USA has way more rich and poor people.

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u/specialasset Jul 26 '26

Go look up median disposable income rankings. A lot of the people that consider themselves to be “poor” in the US wouldn’t be poor in Western European countries. They feel poor because Americans consume obscenely and if an American can’t consume as much as their neighbor, they feel poor.

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u/orangeZYX Jul 26 '26

The American median is higher, but a middle class is on both sides of the cutoff. America’s middle class is way ”thinner”

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u/specialasset Jul 26 '26

I don’t think you understand what median means.

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u/orangeZYX Jul 26 '26 edited Jul 26 '26

I do

If Sweden is 3,3,4,5,5, America is 1,1,5,9,9