Breaking news: in one of the most productive countries / economies in the entire history of humanity, the majority of people creating that productivity do not get to enjoy the rewards of that productivity.
same as it ever was.
You know what would fix this? More military spending.
Look, the oil rich countries arent going to discover freedom by themselves
Unions.
I give 1% to my union. My pay is ~10% better than it would be if we didn’t have it, and management gets in huge trouble if they mistreat workers. And by trouble, I mean they fired a manager when they scheduled a worker over their lunch break.
And violence.
Wow great comment. Thanks for contributing
So you still live paycheck to paycheck, except now you have to trust someone else to negotiate on your behalf instead of negotiating yourself
“instead of negotiating”
negotiating yourself
Collective action is the only way to get even remotely close to a fair wage.
Negotiating collectively is the only way to negotiate with a Capitalist. Individually, you are a replaceable cog, collectively you’re the machine.
If you’re living paycheck to paycheck it stands to reason that your negotiating position isn’t very good.
Epic fail. Super weak attempt at “logic”.
Seems like a lowball number actually
Hey, but everyone, the 1% are doin’ great and Biden needs his re-election, so the economy is super stronk!
How ignorant can a comment even be? I mean just the idea that the current economy and state of wealth inequality is Joe Biden’s fault is astounding. The previous administration gave biggest handout to the 1% of any government in the history of mankind.
But that’s just the history of America for the last 40 years I guess. Republicans administrations gutting things, giving massive handouts to the rich, destroying social safety nets, allowing corruption and fraud to go rampant, etc… then when a democratic administration tries to clean it up just a little bit, to stabilize things, all the mouth breathers suddenly forget everything happened beforehand.
Lots of words by a dolt who just doesn’t get it.
I get it. You voted Hilary. Like a dolt.
If only we were back in the good Ole days of 2019 with the economy roaring and 78% of people reporting living paycheck to paycheck according to CareerBuilder.
It’s PROBABLY a measurement problem, not an actual number with insight on how people are living. People self report incorrectly to a lot of things, and paycheck-to-paycheck can mean a lot of things. We think of it as someone who might be homeless without their paycheck but someone who would have to sell some stocks or stop retirement contributions might also think of themselves as “paycheck to paycheck.”
If you are working, your paycheck is probably a big part of your budget. That makes this survey question a bit meaningless.
You’re spot on here. Plenty of people count maxing out their 401k and IRA as “living paycheck to paycheck”, because their budgets would go upside if they missed a paycheck and did literally nothing to cover it.
Combine that with the general bias all people have to view themselves as generally normal and you get a pretty meaningless metric.
but someone who would have to sell some stocks or stop retirement contributions might also think of themselves as “paycheck to paycheck.”
Oh, like I had to do when I moved to another apartment? I had to wipe out my (tiny) Roth IRA just to pay the deposit. My wife had to wipe hers out just to pay the movers and all the other BS fees. We now have no retirement savings and haven’t since we moved six months ago. We both had to stop contributing to our IRAs in order to continue paying the bills. We’re not even paycheck to paycheck at this point, we’re at month to month.
We just had to refinance our mortgage because our credit card debt was out of control and the payments were too high.
But it did nothing to help with student loans or medical debts.
Lol some clown is removing my comments as “uncivil” in posts about how the wealthy are throwing people into the orphan crushing machine and driving everyone into destitute poverty.
Violence is the only way that rights and freedoms have ever been secured. It has NEVER happened by voting. If you’re too insecure and pussified to recognize this then you should never be allowed anywhere near a mod button.
The French Revolution saw less poverty and less inequality than what exists in modern day America.
Meanwhile, Thomas Paine and any French revolutionary would be banned and censored on this platform today.
The wealthy view this as progress: “we milked more of the production and still have a docile subservient society”
Ugh, poor people and their disgusting lifestyle choice of having no money.
Can’t they just dip into their trustfunds if they’re short?
Still? That number will only grow. Trickle down economics doesn’t exist and Americans don’t understand what class consciousness is.
Unions and violence are the only reasonable responses.
