The average income of African American males between 20-59

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None of those are livable wages. How in the entire fukk are people out here surviving?
I'm really sick of hearing that shyt.. Teachers making 25k a year and people on the internet really like "HOW DO PEOPLE MAKING 40-50K SURVIVE!!!!?"

Same way as all the majority of all americans consider the avg HOUSEHOLD make about 60k
 

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It's crazy how oversaturated the field is. I been in the field for a while and when I first got into it I had maybe 10 or 15 people I was competing against but I knew somebody at the company so I had an advantage. Before I left my job we had 200+ candidates for the last round and they were paying 20% less than when I started because they named it something different. I'm with the government now and every round has a thousand applicants smh. Only about 1% make it out of each round and they hire maybe 10% of that 1%.
That's the okie doke corporations and the government been pulling on people for decades. They tell everyone there is a shortage in a particular field knowing damn well it's not. All so they can import foreign workers or send the job overseas.

I work in cybersecurity and the amount of jobs being sent overseas is staggering. Yet all you hear about is there being this massive shortage of workers. People spend all this money on a cybersecurity degree or boot camp then can't find a job.
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And even if you luck up and find a job. How long before you eventually get laid off? And your job gets shipped overseas somewhere.
 

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I'm really sick of hearing that shyt.. Teachers making 25k a year and people on the internet really like "HOW DO PEOPLE MAKING 40-50K SURVIVE!!!!?"

Same way as all the majority of all americans consider the avg HOUSEHOLD make about 60k
I think when people say this they are mostly talking about in this current climate with inflation, home prices, and savings

I know for the vast majority of people not just ITT, but also in the country are not saving for their retirement. Most people making 40-50k a year don't contribute to any sort of 401k or TSP. Add into the fact that housing prices are still 400k+ with 7% interest and our monthly mortgage payment on a 3 bedroom 2 bathroom house is probably 2500+ a month easily

Take into account daycare expenses for a working family.. probably costs 1k a month easily. Add in medical expenses, kid activities, school supplies, car insurance, car payments, etc... you're in debt very fast with little to no savings in case of an emergency
 

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Every time I see these numbers, I feel so angry.

It upsets a great deal.
I have no idea how the fukk anyone CAN'T be furious.
And it isn't all on us.

Do we have people actively fukking up by not going to school or getting into shytty jobs
or starting families before getting established?
YES!
But we also have brilliant minds stuck in forever renting, barely getting lunch at school, living shytty neighborhoods
or who are one bad moment away from homelessness.

I feel immensely blessed.
I know on the coli "$100kAintNoMoney" but in real life? I feel incredibly insulated from a lot of the things that
other people are worried about financially.
 

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Always knew those numbers was like that , but unfortunately black folks don’t live in reality

Social Media will have some think black men and women are on the same level as whites and Asians

In this world it’s time for black men and women to get they head out their individualistic mindset that I don’t need each other and get together and stop trying to players and boss bytches

Put up those sisters numbers as well

Even the sisters numbers are bad..

We as a people don’t live in reality

This attitude is more one-sided than you're making it.
kevin samuels really messed up the black womans mind by creating this 100k atmosphere...just putting it out there has these hoes thinking a man aint a man unless he 100k.
Kevin Samuels didn't create a 100k atmosphere. Women were already clamoring for a 6-figure man, what he did was tell them why they weren't getting that man. He exposed why they couldn't meet the standard they set.
 

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@Shadow King I bet you just sit at home broke as shyt, waiting for your life to magically change without putting in any effort, huh? The time you spend on The Coli alone could be put into learning something of value...but nope...you'd rather come and here and hope these nikkas support your victim mentality so yall can stay stagnant together
 

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@Shadow King I bet you just sit at home broke as shyt, waiting for your life to magically change without putting in any effort, huh? The time you spend on The Coli alone could be put into learning something of value...but nope...you'd rather come and here and hope these nikkas support your victim mentality so yall can stay stagnant together
Lol.

You came in here with bootstrap rhetoric yet are in hear arguing with @Field Marshall Bradley acknowledging that livable wages are not present in these charts.

As for me:
I've spoken on this before. I work literally twice as much as the average person in blue collar work. Sweats and beat up boots, change that to old reliable sneakers for the couple of times I get to make gym time, home. If I want need extra bread, weekends make me work triple as much as most of the world. All facilitated by a 2020 Passport.

I work a blue collar job with long hours. 13-15 hours a day, we get breaks but immediate traffic discourages you from leaving so you're locked in twice as long as the average person. Is not solidified but that's supposedly going to change soon. The hours will still be odd but not quite as it is currently.

3 years there. Year 1 I entered 6 figures for the first time in life at 28/29 because of COVID backlog. Year 2 & 3 I didn't, which is the norm due to seniority or a lack thereof, but moving forward I'll have to be sick or injured for a good deal of the year to miss 100K again.
Now argue with him, or yourself, or whoever the fuçk else floats your boat, while I expand my ignore list.
 

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Me too yet I still feel…… broke :mjcry:

On a side note, these stats are not only accurate but it’s scary. No damn politician can change what is essentially a generational plague if you’re one group or a damn positive birthright if you’re another.

I need a true breakdown of how people survive in $20-30k a year and it’s not 1992
Funny, for personal reasons I literally just had to do this breakdown today. It's infuriating. :yeshrug:

Half assed Welfare, coupons, random hustles, etc. Hell...dating women I don't even like just for random perks like this shyt is a RPG game. It's impossible. :mjlol:

I'm looking at my finances and legit wondering how am I alive. And somehow still not behind on child support. shyt is crazy.
 

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Most of your arent very smart in math.

1st off there are so many factors missing in the equation

Are they including unemployed and part time??


Bcuz if your make 100k and I'm unemployed, we average 50k.

No offense but you aren't in a place to speak down on others math. You were way off on the amount of interest you thought you'd be paying in that thread of you buying that old and used truck :pachaha:
 
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