@matteo_il_pazzeo: Income inequality in the United States. Thousands of Americans work for minimum wage and, yet, they do not fall below the poverty line. Australia, however, has a minimum wage that is almost 3 times out of the United States and, yet, has higher poverty rates. But that’s because really in the United States use different rules to calculate poverty. People like @R@ReCon2Recoveryse these numbers and say that the United States has less poverty than Australia. This is not true. #eq#equalityi#minimumwageo#poverty

PurpleNurple :

The poverty line in the USA is WAYYYY too low

oldmanmambo :

That frame you chose to pause on is diabolical 🤣🤣🤣

martin cobham Marty :

Haha, I’m poor here in Australia living on a pension, driving an 18 yo Honda, surfing every day, skateboarding tennis it’s horrendous..

knifeyspoonygaming :

i would rather be poor in a country with universal health care.

Pop :

I’ll never understand the working class fighting AGAINST wage increases

Karen G :

I will always bring this up: the US Poverty income line hasn’t been adjusted since the mid 1960’s.

generik06 :

And to reiterate: In Australia we pay less in tax, AND have more benefits for our tax.

mo :

I will never get over people saying "go move there" in response to "I can't afford to live." like if I cant afford to live, how can I leave the country???

G L :

The idea that $17k is not poverty is mad.

Bella :

We also enjoy universal healthcare and free public education and a number of social safety nets to help people through

Kyra Marie Lange :

I make 32k-34k a year... it is POVERTY! I dont know a single person who isn't living paycheck to paycheck.

Joshua :

Can I move to Australia?

yeahtimtams :

Also the population of Australia is 26million so like 260,000 people make less than half of the median household income. But in USA 120million people make less that $40,000, who are technically under the AU poverty line

Steggy :

Just to be good faith, the one correction I would add to the original video is that with currency conversion AUS’s min wage is slightly over twice USA’s min wage not thrice - but agree with everything you’ve said here

TTV_Wikidnezz :

Also: If I COULD move to another country, I WOULD. In a HEARTBEAT. But I can't afford to live, much less move down the street, much less move to another country. So perhaps it's better that we... idk be the change we wanna see?

D :

you said words that guy doesn't understand

Everett Explorer :

In the US, all government statistics are calculated in ways to make the government look better and provide less services to its citizens.

Rogge :

Isn’t like half of america living paycheck to paycheck?? Seems like poverty to me

Mason :

Eric Darnall :

And we have HECS for university, which is essentially a student loan that gets indexed in line with inflation, and is only required to be repaid after you earn above the threshold, rather than having the crippling student repayments the US has.

Lizzieboof :

We also have annual leave, long service leave, parental leave, child care subsidy, superannuation, Medicare, healthcare card, pharmaceutical benefit scheme. Just to name a few.

waolomlwymmd :

I make $32,000 annually. Thanks to our lack of healthcare in America, I am one medical emergency away from having nothing.

Never mind… :

Watching this from Australia while waiting for my free doctors appointment…

Herb380 🏳️‍🌈 :

Trump is not going to let the truth out.

Liz Rambunctious :

There's much about Australia that's not perfect, but I feel very grateful to live here (and not there), simply because of the wage protections and the universal health care.