Why do Americans pretend they're not broke when most Americans are in debt?

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Why do Americans pretend they're not broke when most Americans are in debt? - Lemmy.World

Lemmy

I mean, it depends on what you mean by that. Anyone who has a credit card is going to have debt, just by virtue of needing to pay the bill.

But if you mean “most Americans have a negative net worth” — taking into account assets and debts — most Americans have a positive net worth.

kiplinger.com/…/average-net-worth-by-age-how-do-y…

The median net worth of all Americans in 2022 was $192,900.

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Kiplinger
I call bullshit on that $192k average. They’re including people worth hundreds of billions in net worth which is going to skew the average way higher than it really is.