SG: How high is your monthly income?

you living in Czechia still means you are living in top 25% wealthiest countries (per capita) in the world, if we consider the population of poorest countries you will probably quite easily jump to top 15-10% richest people in the world, so yeah, for majority of the world you are considered rich country ;p

althou I believe poll is heavilly affected not by the fact that people live in countries where they earn below 100$ (althou there are such people, look through the thread, like guy working 8 hours per day 6 days a week earning 25$ monthly) but by the fact that there are a lot of underage kids, students and unemployed adults on SG, and they will be answering they earn <100$ which is true, while still having the same if not higher costs of living as you - but simply someone else but them is paying them, like parents, social system etc.

My sister is working in Palo Alto and rent in a shared apartment is like U$1200, while in Argentina, a similar apartment is under U$500 so the location really matters.

First of all, you're not boring anyone.

You have an amazing life story, and I enjoyed reading it. It's amazing to read about people with live so different than your own, to get some perspective on your own life.

I wish you all the best!

I'm also dealing with this... Not enough to even find a place with my GA ( $220 a month... not as good as SSI even - around $500 or so a month, depending on if they offer rental assistance - and of which is still based on early 1970's US income... buying power is 6x higher on average) - which they're trying to take away now saying I can work with what they called "9 extremely disabling conditions".. They want American workforce to be unhealthy, creating a worse product? I guess so! That's why we have sucky products. Neglect seems to cause that kind of cycle of decay to happen. You have to jump through so many hoops to get anywhere. Harder than any job I had when I was healthy, and have to now manage being stressed from not having ideal basics, and living with so many conditions that cause so much damage to my body - physically and mentally. I didn't ask to be sick; on the contrary, I wish I could work, but more is taken away because of that simple fact that I'm not paying tribute to the higher-ups, which offer diminishing returns because of the Federal Reserve, and their interest system of shit - rewarding people with money hoarding illnesses with more supply in the form of interest money from the banks. The less you put back into the economy - the more you make!! Cruel and vicious cycle of destruction... for those at the bottom, at least.

Luckily I have food stamps and very limited medical, to cover most expenses in those areas... plus I need to also visit food banks often, if I can even get that much food down to begin with, since I have some seriously disabling digestive conditions as well as the other worse stuff. Also cannot afford regular phone, tv, other luxuries people take for granted... so got a gov't phone one through medicaid/SNAP/etc. We have Skype, but it doesn't always work with all land lines.

The irony is... most of the people giving in this country are also those in need. They experience the hardship and the struggle, so they have compassion, where others haven't seen even the tip of the iceberg. Not trying to compare, but the numbers do not lie (well.. they're skewed obviously, and not 100%...) if one checks out the statistics overall. Unfortunately most government agencies that are "resources for the disabled/poor" don't have time to be bothered, and they just pass the buck, and you can never get anywhere. They still get paid for their "charity" of sending you elsewhere. It's really screwed up. I had to pay a large portion of my work paycheck into these programs when I was healthier... for less fortunate - and when I need them, it's a slap in the face. I get nothing. Most assistance is also "borrowed", so if you get better, you have to pay most if not all back. A large scam. All that money going into something... and no money coming out. Then all the rules for SSI that normal people don't have to follow... It's pathetic. I think the rules need to be enforced in the opposite direction, but criminals on the right side of the laws - they created their barrier of invincibility, and most of the US seems duped, or doesn't even know how bad it really is near the bottom, when you cannot even afford a home of your own.

Thinking about the huge part of the population having to work and pay like... 1/3 of their paychecks into something... and only a small - but continuously growing part of middle to lower classes going downhill and in need (as more money stagnates away into some rich person's bank interest or something...). There is a huge discrepancy. I wonder what's going on with all that money really. It'd be interesting to see some audits! Compared to the amount of working, I don't even get near what I had to put into it. Something is not right with the much smaller part needing help compared to the mandatory huge amounts being deducted from so so many working people...

Stressful! I have a hard time keeping my composure a lot of times, and it's killing me faster than if I had adequate help with my disabilities. They love to call out other countries for their human rights violations, but we have as many or more right here. Even animals here get better treatment than people near the very bottom... At least at my level, it's lower than what animals get for rights...

The problem: it just isn't projected by the media, and they sweep it all under the rug.... we are the scapegoats. Anyway, I had to pontificate a bit. It's such a terrible injustice here. We have to make it the best we can where we are at though, and not expect so much I guess. Only ones that get anything are rich people with their entitled greedy nature. What those crooked and corrupt government agencies and programs do with all that extra money is on them. I feel really bad that anyone else has to go through any of this besides me... especially when there is so much excess in this country... all take and no give. That is why things are failing, and will contnoue to fail until things can start to change. Money is power and with great power comes zero responsibility here. The more you have, the more breaks you get.

"Poverty wants much; but avarice, everything" - Publilius Syrus

"The man who has millions will want everything he can lay his hand on, and then raise his voice against the poor devil who wants ten cents more a day." - Samuel Gompers

I'm wondering if I like you or your post best... both! :)

the poll/thread asks.. AFTER taxes.. otherwise i'd have to dramatically change my choice, given the fact that here in fucking centralized italy we've got one of the world's highest taxations..

wow, what a scenario!
that's quite sad.. I often admire the States but here in central europe everyone works after school and during college.. and everyone uses paypal and credit cards to buy everything.. it's kind of frightening that the US scenario is so harder than we think..

Out of curiosity what kind of job do you do?
sorry if u think my question is rude...

Where do you live?

I think we live in same country but different city

I believe it was stated in multiple comments in this topic that most of people checks their net income in the poll, so how much you get into your bank account after taxes, insurance and whatever other mandatory costs are associated with salary in your country ;)

I'm not so suprised by number of people with less than 100$ a month. There is likely lot of underaged people here.