Major life experiences have been stolen from a large % of the population, all to make a handful of people richer. It's tragic.
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On the bright-ish side, there’s an even more tragic fate waiting for those handful of people in the coming years…
We'd only have to eat one billionaire and the rest would fall in line
Doesn't matter. Billionaires are food. Gotta eat them all
Which is?
What does this mean?
Violent revolution is inevitable, if not imminent.
If we team up we could afford a fleet of bulldozers. Just sayin.
Bruh there is enough of us we could topple buildings without bulldozers. We just can’t agree on anything in a meaningful way.
But ... Killdozers :(
That killdozer guy was a huge jerk, independent of his attempt to kill people and level the town.
He may have been a jerk but the town officials were raging assholes who were doing blatantly unethical if not outright illegal things aimed at screwing him over.
Yeah nobody involved was any good.
If you ever heard about that hilariously ugly Nashville statue of Nathan Bedford Forrest it's actually kind of a similar situation. He put it up because the city eminent domained part of his land for a road, but refused to buy the whole lot, leaving him with an unsellable sliver.
Then he decided to build a metaphorical Killdozer of racism and poorly executed statuary in that sliver out of spite.
Half of America makes more than that now. Though not by much.
https://www.snopes.com/news/2023/05/17/half-americans-make-less-35000/
It's tough because the snopes article moves between individual and household income amounts--which are two very different things. Kinda wish articles were written more clearly, and provided contextual data regarding how many households have multiple earners.
Yes. If you add up mine and all five of my roommates in our one bedroom apartment we make more than 35k lol
And yet you still complain. God damn millennials. Back in my day I worked hard and made 600 bajillion dollars just by moxie. You just need a nice suit and a firm handshake and you'll easily find a better job
EDIT: also, living with other people is communism
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The landlord: and I took that personally
The rent: goes even higher for bullshit reasons
This has been driving me crazy. I try to compare the median income in the twin cities and it always provides the median household income. Why is it so difficult to find indivual median income for regions.
The latest (2022) “median net compensation” from SSA is $40,847.18
If half is making less, the other half is obviously making more.
The article found the numbers the OP image was based on.
For 2019, according to the SSA, the median net compensation for American workers was indeed less than $35,000 — it was $34,248.45, to be precise
The $35k was rounded. Less than half make more.
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My first job out of college paid $28k/year. Of course that was in the mid 80s. Almost 40 years later, half the country is making less than $7k more than that.
My first teaching job out of college paid $32K/yr and that was in one of the best states for teacher salaries in the country, and this was in 2015
I know a few people in the 100k range. Only a couple have kids. I think that is more than that. It's never stopped people in the past. I think a combination of education and poverty may be part of this.
I mean, even if you're financially well off, your income isn't going to make you blind to things like climate collapse or the prevalence of right wing neonazis.
There are a lot more factors than just money that make this planet not a suitable place to raise children.
Sure, but we know about that because we tend to be more educated. My point was that money alone isn't the only reason we aren't having more kids. Thank you for agreeing with me. The way I put it could have used more examples.
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Because there's not enough unions
Is it not more suited for firstworldproblems? 35k a year is what most people in the world can't dream about. World median is less than 3.5k
While you're completely correct, the cost of living in America is also much higher than than the world median.
What we really should be looking at is the ratio of pay : cost of living but raw salary is just easier for the masses to see and be mad about.
As an example, 3.5k USD is about my monthly bills.
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Flaunt that privilege! Yeah people who make 3.5k a year don't have to pay 1-2k a month in rent. But you took that into account right?
Technically, our standard of living is much much lower. A lot of us don't have water heating, so we just shower (or dunk, if you use a pail, because some of us can't afford showers) with cold water, unless you want to spend precious time and fuel to boil it. I see Americans who glorify cold showers, saying that it develops you as a person. Heating and cooling is a no-brainer for Americans, but many of us are still hesitant to use air conditioning even at 30°C. In my country, we still have regular service (water and electricity) interruptions, even in the cities. Yes, rent can be lower outside of major cities, but development is centralised there, so you'd rather move to those cities anyway. I would hear of families having to seek treatment in a more developed city, because their city doesn't have resources.
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Have you tried voting
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