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…
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.
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 latest (2022) “median net compensation” from SSA is $40,847.18
Come on, it can’t be half and half. Won’t somebody think about the poor bastards making EXACTLY 35k?
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.
