The low annual income of the typical american worker is disturbing

[jilla82]

its also easier than ever to be self employed/start your own business.

Information has never been this readily available

The years of a free ride (it was a short time in history) is over (I.E. - working in a factory)...
...if you dont have an in demand skill...or the drive to constantly learn...youre going to be broke.

The government cant save you from this.

 

[Bawon Samedi]

And we're suppose to be the greatest nation on Earth? I told this dumbass(cokehead) white co-worker of mines that while Northern Europeans taxes the people there lives are much more comfortable. Him believing that the USA is the GOAT nation on Earth could not comprehend that...

 

[JahFocus CS]

And we're suppose to be the greatest nation on Earth? I told this dumbass(cokehead) white co-worker of mines that while Northern Europeans taxes the people there lives are much more comfortable. Him believing that the USA is the GOAT nation on Earth could not comprehend that...

That shyt is pure propaganda. From the jump I know anyone talking that "this is the greatest country on earth" stuff is lost in the sauce.

 

[EndDomination]

Poverty is an all time low... not just as a percentage but in real numbers.

That's an odd statement, poverty has changed tremendously over the last century.
One could make $0 a year, farm and trade for goods in the 1930s.
The same, as well as many other conditions have changed significantly since then, and would not be possible in this day and age.

 

[EndDomination]

How the FUKK does half this country live off $30k a year. How the fukk can even live off 50k a year?!

So fukked up brehs.

Depending on where you are, its not actually that hard.
You can rent a house here in Cleveland or in one of the neighboring suburbs for about $500 a month, get a roommate and split utilities and you're paying about ~$350 per month on rent and utilities, about $100 a month on gas, $200 a month on food, and a still have money left over.
And a good chunk of the US lives in rather low-COL cities.

 

[winb83]

How the FUKK does half this country live off $30k a year. How the fukk can even live off 50k a year?!

So fukked up brehs.

I live in an apartment with a paid off car. my monthly expenses aren't even $800 a month total with all my bills combined. I have a high amount of disposable income especially since I have no kids.

 

[BocaRear]

That shyt is pure propaganda. From the jump I know anyone talking that "this is the greatest country on earth" stuff is lost in the sauce.

And we're suppose to be the greatest nation on Earth? I told this dumbass(cokehead) white co-worker of mines that while Northern Europeans taxes the people there lives are much more comfortable. Him believing that the USA is the GOAT nation on Earth could not comprehend that...

I live in London - every time I think about the American healthcare system I shudder. The universal healthcare system of the NHS in the UK is the only way to go and the only system that makes sense.

Americans have been so brainwashed and, more importantly, selfish that they don't want other people benefitting from their taxes - this extreme individualism comes at the cost of a functioning society - forreal my progressive brehs across the pond I wish you the utmost perseverance in trying to convince these hillbillies that "big government" is not necessarily bad.

 

[JahFocus CS]

I live in an apartment with a paid off car. my monthly expenses aren't even $800 a month total with all my bills combined. I have a high amount of disposable income especially since I have no kids.

How much is your rent?

 

[无名的]

To boot, nobody has savings. Even people making over 100k per year can't save shyt.

 

[winb83]

How much is your rent?

$470 a month for a 1 bed room

 

[JahFocus CS]

$470 a month

I'm jelly as fukk breh.

 

[winb83]

I live in London - every time I think about the American healthcare system I shudder. The universal healthcare system of the NHS in the UK is the only way to go and the only system that makes sense.

Americans have been so brainwashed and, more importantly, selfish that they don't want other people benefitting from their taxes - this extreme individualism comes at the cost of a functioning society - forreal my progressive brehs across the pond I wish you the utmost perseverance in trying to convince these hillbillies that "big government" is not necessarily bad.

This is the problem with the United States. Rich people don't want to pay taxes so they convince the poor that it should be every man for himself. pull yourself up by your bootstraps and cut the hell out of taxes. they take what we do pay in taxes and funnel it back into wars and stuff they get paid off of.

 

[无名的]

I'm jelly as fukk breh.

My utilities are usually more than that every month

 

[winb83]

its also easier than ever to be self employed/start your own business.

Information has never been this readily available

The years of a free ride (it was a short time in history) is over (I.E. - working in a factory)...
...if you dont have an in demand skill...or the drive to constantly learn...youre going to be broke.

The government cant save you from this.

You say this as the people at the top horde all the wealth. people aren't getting reasonable pay for the jobs they perform. inflation defeats the value of minimum wage which barely rises.

Working to earn a living isn't a free ride either.

 

[ⒶⓁⒾⒶⓈ]

or we can look at why the cost of living is artificially high and work to bring it down...

Exactly the root of the problem was never wages or raises..its INFLATION...but people have been conditioned to accept inflation as a fact of life and that deflation must be fought off by a noble and heroic central bank elite through printing more money