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Major life experiences have been stolen from a large % of the population, all to make a handful of people richer. It’s tragic.
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?
Still an optimist I see
I would like to point that bunch of people tried to overthrow the US Government on January 6, 2020 cause they were angry.
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.
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
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.
Big if true.
Large if factual
Giga if brain
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.
Come on, it can’t be half and half. Won’t somebody think about the poor bastards making EXACTLY 35k?
True dat
Ah there’s the evidence
Ugh, I’m sick and tired of these whiny employees not thinking about the real hardworking heroes of America. Shareholders.
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
Because there’s not enough unions
But we already know the answer to that question.
Ronald Reagan?
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Have you tried voting
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This guy is shitty, but I don’t disagree with the lazy comment. Alot of problems can be solved by not being lazy.
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.
Yeah idk why you’re getting downvoted so hard. My post was just a piggy-back off of yours, not a rebuttal or anything. /shrug.
Maybe my demeanor. I’m prickly sometimes and I apologize for that. Maybe I wasn’t being clear. It could have come across that I was suggesting that education needed to be reduced. I didn’t mean to suggest that, or anything else that assigned fault to the poor or the educated. Maybe my anecdotes didn’t back it up or sounded pompous. I apologize if I sounded combative.
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Illegal immigrants deserve more then 35k. Those people are getting away from the worst places imaginable with nothing to their names
