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Originally Posted by aaronblood
What do the rest of you all think?
Is $200k per household the minimum threshhold to not be screwed in the US?
I'd put it considerably lower, probably by more than half.
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No. All anybody has to do is strive. Opportunities abound. J.K. Rowling isn't American, she's British, but when she started the first Harry Potter book she was a working welfare mother. Now she's literally "richer than the Queen of England."
The point is that it is possible to make it out of poverty and into practically any level you can imagine, if the desire and the willingness to work are there. On the other hand it's possible to do just the opposite. I was born fairly well off, with a free ride to college. I hated school, so I dropped out and joined the navy. Finished with that, changed states, married, kids, divorced, never managed to find a niche that worked for me, tried this, did that, and now I'm struggling just to not be homeless again; mainly because I could never make myself work at a job I didn't like just for the sake of doing it.
In spite of being about as poor as poor can be, I still see America as the 'land of opportunity'.