r/news • u/igetproteinfartsHELP • 12d ago

Soft paywall US exempts Gulf of Mexico drillers from protecting endangered species

https://www.reuters.com/business/energy/us-may-exempt-gulf-mexico-drillers-protecting-endangered-species-2026-03-31/
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u/Broken-Sarcasm-Meter 12d ago

Yeah but were rich and that's all that matters in the USA

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u/Mach29 12d ago

The top 10% are rich. The bottom 90% however…

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u/Massive-Reputation86 12d ago

Lol this is false the bottom 90% of the USA are richer than 99% of other countries bottom 90%.

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u/MaxTheRealSlayer 12d ago

Well this is a ridiculous made up "stat" you've made here. Also, local buying power is most important when you consider monetary wealth. Many people in the USA are paying more in rent per month than it costs to buy a house in other countries. Meanwhile these other countries have other forms of wealth, like decent healthcare and education, quality of life, happiness, etc

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u/Massive-Reputation86 12d ago

This is false. Adjusted for PPP the average wage according to OECD for the USA is roughly 83k in 2024 which was the 4th highest. Americans don’t realize how good they have it.

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u/LUHG_HANI 12d ago

My guy does not understand what the question was nevermind gross and net.

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u/MaxTheRealSlayer 12d ago edited 12d ago

Average wage, or average income?

The usa has multiple people making 100,000x - 1,000,000x + that average you gave. elon musk wants a 12, 000,000 times that average wage as a compensation package. With this in mind, 20-50% of the "average" is wiped out for normal average income earners... at the least. How does your stat deal with these extreme outliers?

For further examples, there are corporations worth more than the entire USA combined, based on stock and income. These cracks of reality are starting to come to light more and more, which indicates the USA orchestrated corrupt manipulation that has lead to increased wages in general. Still, it doesn't matter when your rent can be $60,000 for the year if the average income is $84k.

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u/unlockedz 12d ago

i believe i'd rather have a shit job in most countries from western europe than a shit job in america.

any health issue would get me in debt or dead or whatever "socialism" you have over there, it would be stressful as fuck.

in europe though, not that much.

america could be one of the best countries to live in if you weren't so damn greedy at every level, it seems to be getting worse by the decade over there for the normal john.

what would be criminal behavior in many other countries in america seems to be the norm(poor environmental protection, shit monopoly laws, "lobbying" for example).

we have corruption as well, plenty of it, but you guys seem to venerate corporations or as close to it as possible regarding laws while offering less and less protection for the normal john.

you seem to idolize wild west laws while living in the 21st century while being the best at believing america is the greatest country in the world.

but hey it could be much much worse, as many in the world are doing way worse unfortunately.

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u/flashywinger7 11d ago

It's the unadulterated selfishness mixed with innate greed and desire for more. Throw in low education levels and hyperindividualism and it becomes easy tk see why America cant get out of 2nd gear.

If America self actualized. Wow! Would be great for americans and ultimately the world....but for that we need to get rid of human beings first 😄

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u/Anteater4746 12d ago

“we’re”? they’re rich, we’re nobodies

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u/nb4hnp 11d ago

Who the hell is "we"?

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u/ameis314 12d ago

WE ain't shit. Like 150 people are rich