Richest country in the world doesn’t take care of its citizens. Funny how that works
Or it’s not actually the richest.
So you’re right. We are number 11 now
*Country with the richest persons living in it
you all best buckle up, because it’s gonna get a lot worse
“The middle class has been declining — we just haven’t recognized it fully,” LISEP Chairman Gene Ludwig told CBS MoneyWatch. "It’s really dangerous because it’s the kind of thing that leads to social unrest, and it’s not fair. The American dream is not that it’s given to you — it’s that if you work hard, you have a chance to get ahead and achieve the things in life that you want to achieve. It’s not living in a tent, not having to steal."
The wealthy always forget this, because they’re convinced they’re a special unique snowflake and smarter than everyone else, instead of understanding they were just lucky.
But you have millionaires who play kids games on tv and billionaire celebrities made famous by their looks or money, that go on to play government in real life in all your major political offices. Multi millionaire actors and starving paramedics. What an advanced society.
Looks like it’s time to eat the rich.
They have too much power and resources now. We aren’t going to get a better quality of life through peaceful means.
We need magats to get angry. They’re the reason why this shit show is still going on.
They can’t afford bread?
Let them eat cake.
It takes $44,737 for a one-person household to maintain a “minimal quality of life”?
Stagnation of wages and increasing prices are causing a crisis, no doubt, but is that really the number we’re looking at for a minimum?
According to this, I’ve only ever personally known (at least well enough to know their income) two people affording a ‘minimal quality of life’.
I didn’t see that value in the article. Did I miss a reference?
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The linked report.
Credit is doing a lot of heavy lifting. If credit seizes up, then it all falls apart. That’s why interest rates have been held low for so long.
Stock market gambling games and communism for the billionaires.
Social darwinist, survival of the fittest, ruthless exploitative capitalism for the poors.
To convince more people, it may help to have an analysis that doesn’t include celebratory dinners, eating out, physical television, etc. The inclusion of those things are either a drop in the bucket or have good enough rationales, but too many Americans are too dumb to accept that.
Also nothing new, they did a big news report in Reno like 20 years ago and cost of living was about double what the average income was for the city. You had a two income family or roommates, or live at home.
Y’all needed a study to find this out! Y’all could have just asked me and saved a whole bunch of time!
Studies like this are important so that politicians can’t as easily dismiss it, at least in theory. In practice it’s so that those doing the study can shout “Called it” when shit inevitably hits the fan. Still useful though.
“Sound like the perfect time to cut Medicaid” -Republican Congress
As far as I can tell they’re trying to push for violence so they can initiate martial law and stop elections.
Sounds like a conspiracy theory, but these fucks are literally focused on doing only what hurts average Americans. It’s concentrated.
What they don’t seem to grasp is that we’re the most armed populous on the planet, so martial law may not do what they think it’s going to do.
Either way, arm up.
People have bee saying this for a while now… this isn’t news anymore. Why is he still alive?
60% is a majority, right? The article was working really hard to downplay it. “The bottom 60%” that’s more than half the country… social unrest will be the least of their worries
