The average income of African American males between 20-59

[Ezekiel 25:17]

I look at this as upward mobility in your current company. Not sure what industry you’re in, but you’re saying the next skill you learn for your current company, is a skillset you can get paid for outside your company?

Yeah that's correct because it's the same industry. Some of these companies got BlueBeam on the application, so why not learn it? Better chances for me than others.

 

[CashmereThoughts]

And barbers charge us how much per cut?

whater they feel like and they're skills can command. Barbering is an art and is predicted the value one places on their time and talent. cheap barbers are always an option

 

[bourgeoisie tall freak]

Did you know there is this thing called AI that you can ask and it will tell you different? Because instead of searching through websites, I just asked AI what the median income for African American males was for 2023 and it said $35,000 individually and $56,000 household. 2022 was $33,000.

How much do you make per hour? Do you know what it is annually? How much do the people around you make? Nobody is struggling, huh?

You would just rather say whatever you want instead of researching.

Do you know what the OP says and what you made your comments off of before u googled? A 10k difference is a major difference. I'm sure you yourself, as the king of penny pinching cheapskating fast food app scamming in literally any other thread, can make do on 35k but you came in here with the tears because you didn't read and was duped by covid stats

 

[B86]

Do you know what the OP says and what you made your comments off of before u googled? A 10k difference is a major difference. I'm sure you yourself, as the king of penny pinching cheapskating fast food app scamming in literally any other thread, can make do on 35k but you came in here with the tears because you didn't read and was duped by covid stastatsim

I'm making due on about 4 times that (household) plus investments. How about you?

I know exactly what OP said. Did you see what I said to what I quoted from your inaccurate opinion? If I'm talking about MEDIAN, across all age ranges, the median damn near never changed since COVID

 

[Still Benefited]

Thank you for providing us a reality check.

People get in this thread and their take is that people need to work harder stop being lazy! ... if this mentality prevails then America and Europe are doomed. There is no insight at all into the root causes.

The struggle to find a decent any job has been normalized that people don't even the question the sanity of several hundreds of job applications to land anything. You know, it's not supposed to be like this in a functional economy in a wealthy country.

The single biggest problem that plagues us this: where capital is invested. We can contrast America vs China on this very point and then hopefully learn to demand more of our leaders and politicians.

Both China and America have run zero or low interest rate policies for a long long time now. In China it happens because banks are state-run public utilities (i.e. no profit motive), in America because that is set by the Federal Reserve. The contrast between how these two countries operate occurs at the next step, which is what do banks do with this capital.

In China, they figure out a productive industrial activity to start, and then allocate money and resources for that, funded by low interest loans, and coordinate local governments, real estate developers, universities, utilities, energy, infrastructure. The new productive industry eventually turns a profit, and the surpluses get spun back into starting more productive industry, and so the cycle continues. It works very well.

In this manner, the Chinese have built up regions with 20-30 million inhabitants in cities living a modern lifestyle to Western standards. Not once, not twice. This kind of development has been repeated in literally dozens of regions of such size, that are specialized into specific industries to achieve efficient supply chains all the way from raw materials to finished goods. Be it EVs, white goods, electronics, semiconductors, commercial aircraft, high speed rail, solar panels, wind turbines. Sometimes on land where two decades ago, it was just empty nature.

The scale and focus and coordination and planning that has been accomplished will boggle your mind once you appreciate how large it is. It's been done by capital investment on capitalist principles. There's no magic here, any country can start doing it. However, what they don't allow is that the surpluses accumulate as private wealth, and now we get to America.

In the US, banks used ZERP to fund real estate and mortgages, to the tune of 80 % of their lending. This is not productive industrial activity that creates jobs. It is however an excellent means for those with wealth to accumulate more and more assets (real estate, stocks, bonds) which enables their rent-seeking. Private wealth is also used to influence politics, to manipulate markets and artificially increase revenue streams.

Inflating debt and cost structures for all of the basic necessities of life is the name of the game. Americans pay $700 billion a year for prescription drugs, housing takes up 40 % of your income vs 20 % a few decades ago, inflated student loans, inflated and highly leveraged stock markets with stock buybacks (because apparently there are no productive investments to be found...). Our economies are fake scams deliberately set up to accumulate wealth to the top by sucking money out of the real economy of production and consumption.

Look at the trendlines, they been going for more 50 years. Where do you suppose it will end? Current generation is doing worse than the previous. This will keep happening until the system is changed. Cancel all debts and nationalize banking. Yeah we should all work hard. But you can never hope to improve society without insight of the troubles we face. It's not some natural law that says only Chinese can build stuff. Western workers in current economies cost too much, but that is only because of purposefully inflated costs which is the mechanism by which the rich get richer.

I wish we had a post hall of fame,I would put this there in the main ballroom


Hopefully the peanut gallery read this carefully. Are you awake yet? Your mirage has been ruined

 

[bourgeoisie tall freak]

I'm making due on about 4 times that (household). How about you?

I know exactly what OP said. Did you see what I said to what I quoted from your inaccurate opinion?

so now are you saying you spend your whole income to make do when in any other thread you look down on people for not scamming coupon apps and penny pinching?
of course people can make do on 30K. your cheap ass knows damn well lol

 

[B86]

so now are you saying you spend your whole income to make do when in any other thread you look down on people for not scamming coupon apps and penny pinching?
of course people can make do on 30K. your cheap ass knows damn well lol

What the fukk are you talking about? When have I ever said I spend my whole income? I haven't did nothing like that in about 15 years. Im even in this thread saying I save thousands per month. I'd have to buy cars every month to spend my whole income.

See how you keep making shyt up?

 

[Wild self]

Housing prices go down when work is eliminated.

If the plant or the factory closes, housing takes a major hit. It's why the Midwest looks the way it does.

Yep. 3rd world status is what most of the Midwest is, especially with the lack of good paying jobs

 

[Wild self]

if you're not developing skills *and renewing them*, then how are you going to compete and progress?

Guess you never heard of the FRENCH REVOLUTION

 

[bourgeoisie tall freak]

What the fukk are you talking about? When have I ever said I spend my whole income? I haven't did nothing like that in about 15 years. Im even in this thread saying I save thousands per month.

See how you keep making shyt up?

you said "i make due with my income". ok so you don't know what "make do" means
it's a lot you don't know i guess

 

[B86]

you said "i make due with my income". ok so you don't know what make due means
it's a lot you don't know i guess.

I said "I make due on 4 times that", mocking your goofy ass since you tried to throw an insult saying I make $35k

 

[Thurgood Thurston III]

What are the numbers for NY?

 

[bourgeoisie tall freak]

I said "I make due on 4 times that", mocking your goofy ass since you tried to throw an insult saying I make $35k

that's you fault for being a sassy bytch trying to use language out of context then get mad and say i'm making stuff up. no bytch that exactly what you said

 

[Wild self]

I definitely get that. It's just the idea of commiting to one industry or skillset and be set for life has been dead since deindustrialization. Most people are going to have to pivot at least once or twice in their career life. Sometimes it's a small pivot, sometimes it might be a whole career change.

The end game of all companies is to reduce the labor force as much as possible so therefore we're going to have to change over the course of our working years one way or another to survive.

FRENCH REVOLUTION.

EAT THE fukkING RICH. They making you work for slave wages even with degrees and certifications

 

[B86]

that's you fault for being a sassy bytch trying to use language out of context then get mad and say i'm making stuff up. no bytch that exactly what you said

By your responses and constantly smileys, I can tell you're a jealous hoe that ain't got shyt going for yourself in life. Too damn dumb to even understand why I used "make due" right after you said it smh. Carry on...