Never think less of yourself because you needed to ask for help . <| sep |> Sure you ' re totally right . It ' s America is perfect 100 % maximum . Blacks aren ' t killed for being black . Browns aren ' t killed for being brown . Children aren ' t gunned down at school . Malls aren ' t playgrounds of murderers . Oh wait I just described a shithole called America . Accept reality instead of perpetuating your Cheetofuelled diatribe . <| sep |> Two words . Storm Cauldron . <| sep |> I wanna move to England now . <| sep |> oi let me borrrrrow ya lighterrr <| sep |> I ' m glad you find it humorous that you happen to be an exception to the rule in a system that has fucked over millions of people in this country but this isn ' t funny to me . You know damn well that the vast majority of the best and brightest in this country seek economic opportunities in large cities . The vast majority of economic investment is not in cities like Detroit but is going straight to the large business hubs like NYC , Chicago , LA , etc . Your anecdotal story doesn ' t change the overall picture . The largest employer in the United States is Walmart which pays on average roughly 10 dollarshr whereas in the past it was GM who paid in inflation adjusted dollars roughly 30 an hour and had unionized workers who demanded benefits to boot . No Obamacare was necessary to force employers to pay workers fairly , you had unions to fight for the working class . Look you ' re right about manufacturing , specifically . But you know full well that this extends beyond just one sector of the economy . Americans had to compete with low wage workers overseas with globalization so they started doing three things to pay for their cost of living . The first was to get wives to start working . The second was to work longer hours . Then the third thing to do was to go into debt and borrow against your home . When the housing bubble popped in 2008 we elected the man we thought was gonna bring change and hope and would finally fix this system that had fucked over people for decades but he couldn ' t . Why is it that Walmart or McDonald ' s doesn ' t have unions to demand for fair wages and benefits ? It ' s because best case scenario they can ship their jobs overseas or worse case scenario the capital invested in these communities will go to other parts of the country where corporations are already making huge profits by keeping the cost of labor low .