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

How else are we supposed to know who’s better than who?
The Jones’s are a bunch of chatty kathy pricks.
Yeah, but they have a hot tub.
I mean, I have a hot tub. Granted, it been sitting on its side for about 5 years, the critters have claimed it as their own and now live inside, and the siding is rotted to hell, but it’s there.
Sounds to me like the critters are the Jones’s now!