The Baby-Formula Crime Ring (2018)
Genuine question: Is living in America as horrible as it sounds for the average, non-rich citizen?<p>Impression I get from the media:<p><pre><code>    * Education sets you in semi-if-not-permanent debt.

    * Housing is impossibly expensive.

    * Single hospital visit can be thousand of dollars.

    * Critical medication is hundreds of dollars a month (or more).

    * Unpaid, (effectively) mandatory overtime. 

    * Many people work several jobs (as adults).

    * No paid vacation.

    * No paid maternal leave.

    * No paid paternal leave.

    * Paternal leave is taboo&#x2F;strange.

    * Maternal leave is weeks&#x2F;month or two.
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From the outside, it sounds like your average American is living in 1930s Poland, not the land of the free.