Before i start i want you to know that i am only talking about average people and average salaries.
I live in Serbia where the average monthly salary is $500 but living standards are pretty much the same as in the US.
The average monthly salary in the US is $3700 anf that is around 8 times more than in Serbia, but people still don t have money for an $800 phone or a $1000 PC.
Every time i watch a review about the newest phone or a good pc or i hear someone talking about clothes or something else on youtube they say something like "I know this is really ecpensive and that a lot of people can t afford it" and that is really weird.
If you have a $3700 salary why don t you at least save up 5% for a few moths and buy the damn phone.
While people in Serbia need almost 2 salaries to buy the same thing.
And if you judge by the videos on youtube or some vlogs on the internet the standards of living are pretty much the same.
The only difference i could see is Americans have a bit bigger houses and they decorate them a lot better, but everything else, phones, computers, food, clothes is almost identical.
How is that possible?