Reverse Remittances

You are grade A delusional if you think you are better off in Mexico.

Shit is getting more difficult financially,100% agree. It's still an absurdly rich nation. Jesus Christ, who believes this shit?

I thought the whole joke in the comic was the weird situation
- I thought the point was that immigrants don't go to America to not work
I think it is just a joke not to be taken seriously.
- 🙄👌👍
- Not familiar with Matt Bors, I see.
It's Lemmy. It's popular to think the us is some dystopian nightmare. I'm not saying "love it or leave it" or anything even remotely like that, but the level of cluelessness here about how privileged most people living in the us are is mind boggling.
- People in the US should not wait until conditions deteriorate to levels seen elsewhere before voicing concerns. I wouldn't call what they have privileges, as people had to fight for them in the past. The privileges you're talking about are not something that fell from the sky. Moreover, there's no guarantee these privileges will remain without continual effort to preserve them.
- I mean it's almost certainly going to fall within our lifetime, that same privilege will also come to bite us. The 3rd largest population in the world that has next to zero experience living like the rest of the world. When it falls it's gonna fall hard.
- It's Lemmy. It's popular to think the us is some dystopian nightmare
  ikr, i'd rather stay in reddit where at least my fellow brethren will defend our pride without question like a rabid mob.
  the level of cluelessness here about how privileged most people living in the us are is mind boggling
  There are privileged people living in even in hell holes like North Korea and Russia too, my guy. And everyone knows how US came to be and why it's insanely "rich and privileged", so it isn't the flex you think it is.
  It's like Russian living in Ukraine, off of Ukrainians suffering and calling Russians privileged.
  But you do. That's your education system with a large dose of propaganda for ya. Blame everyone else but yourself for all your problems.
  Grade A patriotism.

As an American, we are overdue for such karma.

That said, I would fear for the world. Our glass national ego, especially among our entrenched power, wouldn't be able to handle it, and we would likely go on a militarized rampage if our economy collapsed.

We aren't mature enough to do otherwise.

Unfortunately that is our future unless we grow to change.
- It's your present, mate. Your economy owes a lot to the countries you destroy and pillage already.

Eat your vegetables sweetie, there are fat children in the US who have nothing to eat

nothing to eat except Taco Bell
FTFY

I...don't get the joke?

If the US were going through a recession and suffering from high unemployment, and Mexico wasn't, then this would be a funny and topical (if obvious) joke.

But actually, US unemployment is stubbornly, almost weirdly low (at 4%), and GDP is growing faster than Mexico's. Even, like, real inflation-adjusted median income is going up steadily in the US.

So is the joke just, "Imagine if a poor country had to send money to a rich country! That's not happening, of course, but can you imagine if it did?"

It turns out unemployment is low if you don't count most of the people that are unemployed!
- You're talking about people not in the labor market? That's another number you can look up, you know...it's down a few percentage points from 2000, but holding steady in line with the past 5 years, after a sharp drop due to COVID.
  Two things to consider: first, a low rate of unemployment means it's much easier for those people to rejoin the labor force, if they want. And second, this includes people of all ages, including the Boomers, who are retiring en masse, which I would guess largely explains the rise starting in the mid 70s, as the boomers hit working age, and the fall starting in 2010, when the first of them started to retire.
  As far as participation by "working age" people who are able to work, I see a sharp fall from 80.5% in ~2006 (pre-financial crisis) alll the way down to 77.5% today. And of course, you can factor in boomers retiring early there. Oh, and actually that only includes men, so we should also consider shifting social mores: it's far more acceptable for a man to be a stay-at-home parent than it used to be, for example.
  Altogether...I still don't find the comic very timely.
- That's not it, unemployed is someone who doesn't have a job but is looking for one. If you don't have a job and isn't looking for one, that doesn't go into the calculation otherwise my wife and kids would be counted as unemployed.
- The method for measuring unemployment hadn't changed for decades.
- Is that what has happened?? Doctored statistics or some shit? Curious to know more.
- What do you mean, is this a thing in the US?
A few issues with using Unemployment and GDP to get a pulse check on the economy, namely that having a job does not meaning you're making anywhere near enough to survive even modestly and GDP is Gross Domestic Product which.. just means we're being productive?
Shit costs more, we're being paid less, groceries are getting close to matching what I pay in rent, and I rarely feel like I can take a day off from work without getting behind financially. There is very little air to breathe. No room for mistakes.
The joke is that we used to be in a spot where sending money to Mexico made sense because they had 'tighter margins' and now the reverse is true. Most of us are living on a fucking thread with no ability to make real plans for the future. It's bleak in America.
- Yeah, so, anticipating that argument, I included inflation-adjusted median income in my original comment. That is, the income of an average American household after factoring in price rises due to inflation. If you ignore the spike in 2020 (which I'm pretty sure was just the COVID bailouts--and incidentally, the cause of subsequent inflation), Americans--median Americans, not the ultra-wealthy, not the 1% or the 10%, are doing better than they've ever done in history.
  Of course, that doesn't include rises in housing costs, education & healthcare, which by some calculations largely nullify the apparent rise in income. But overall? Mexico is not sending remittance to the US to help poor struggling Americans. In fact...

They say America as if they live in another continent...

"America" generally refers to the USA. People use "North America" or "South America" when referring to the continents. Since, y'know, "America" isn't the name of any continent.
- It is in several countries, including all Latin America
- Depends on language and culture and context. In the United States we use America to refer to the country and North America and South America to refer to the continents. Many Latin American countries use a six continent system though, where North America and South America are just one continent called America. This can lead to some tension and confusion when people from the United States call themselves American, since that would imply everyone in the western hemisphere bascially. While sometimes "Americano" is used to refer to people from the United States, you'll also you get descriptors like "estadounidense" in Spanish for this reason. Though this also has ambiguity, since technically Mexico is also a "united states."
  Anyways, point is, a seven continent system with the western hemisphere separated into north and south America isn't used everywhere, for some people America is a continent. In some places Europe and Asia are combined, and there's other variations too. None of them like up with plate tectonics or anything perfectly, so they're all a little arbitrary in the end.
  https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Continent
- Sure, but consider this: the ones who travel and say "I'm from America" sound like boneheads, and ones who say "I'm from the US" sound more thoughtful.
  Source: American who's spent a bunch of time learning through mistakes while traveling.
You should always listen to context. Languages are not competely logical.
The United States of America (USA or U.S.A.), commonly known as the United States (US or U.S.) or America, is a country primarily located in North America, between Canada and Mexico.
Source: Wikipedia
This has been pretty much true for every country I have visited or lived in, except one time in France some one referred to my Canadian cousin as American.
"America" or "Americas" can refer to the continents which is why you should pay attention to context. When someone says they have an American citizenship, they are not citizens of a continent.
In this comic, if someone is in North America, when they say America, they are referring to USA.
The comic's usage of "America" is correct.
- Don't bother, by the time people start the "USians" stage they generally can't be argued with and will only be pleased by the entire USA being skinned alive.
They? Bro it’s a comic.
- That just forwards the stupidity to the author. So the point stands.

This is so real it's not longer funny

Poor americant's. Having inflated dollar salaries and being unable to live well, with stress, overweight problems, political insanities, shootings per screaming eagle and other american't problems.,😔😔😔

buy me a jetski