'Boogieman'
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Sure, if you live in a mansion and regularly drink $500 bottles of champagne...
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Sure, if you live in a mansion and regularly drink $500 bottles of champagne...
Okay…you don’t know much about the world outside of where you live do you?
i just posted this not long ago lol
https://www.cnbc.com/2021/07/14/ful...kers-cant-afford-rent-anywhere-in-the-us.html
Full-time minimum wage workers can’t afford rent anywhere in the US, according to a new report
"Given each state and locality’s minimum wage, the report finds that the average minimum wage worker in the U.S. would need to work nearly 97 hours per week to afford the average two-bedroom home. That’s more than two full-time jobs."
https://www.cnbc.com/2021/07/14/ful...kers-cant-afford-rent-anywhere-in-the-us.html
Full-time minimum wage workers can’t afford rent anywhere in the US, according to a new report
"Given each state and locality’s minimum wage, the report finds that the average minimum wage worker in the U.S. would need to work nearly 97 hours per week to afford the average two-bedroom home. That’s more than two full-time jobs."
It’s the price of property.
Real estate is following the same trend as the stock market did with computerization. It’s became super easy to acquire property in remote areas if one has the cash. Competition has increased ten fold. Affordable areas are no longer secret to the established population.
You’ll see more land grabbing in the future with even higher rents.
The liberal rich will demand affordable housing when they’re unable to find housekeepers.
The conservative rich will bitch about lowering property values while hiring the “illegals” they publicly condemn.
Any true efforts at a real solution will be met with fears of a communist overthrow.
The rich will point fingers at those richer then them.
The poor will try to overtake the White House in support.
Computers are trying to destroy us.
AI my ass.
Many a time, I survived off of public land. Boondocking. That’s getting harder and harder for people to do. I could camp and work. Follow the seasons. Like nature intended. I lived pretty good.
If land was available and necessities such as showers and potable water. Folks would figure it out. When life gets too easy, we just get fat. Make a lot of kids and die young.
you know, this is nearly a perfect post
From: https://www.weforum.org/reports/glob...ing-inequality
“Human capital is the driving force of economic growth. As a result, anything that undermines the best allocation of talent and impedes the accumulation of human capital may significantly hamper growth. Poor social mobility coupled with inequality of opportunity underpin these frictions, suggesting that if the level of social mobility were increased, it could act as a lever to economic growth.”
The messaging in the US that anyone can make it if they work hard isn’t really that well supported - you are actually less likely to make it than in many other countries. The US is not in the top 20 for social mobility. How is freedom defined in the land of the free?
“Human capital is the driving force of economic growth. As a result, anything that undermines the best allocation of talent and impedes the accumulation of human capital may significantly hamper growth. Poor social mobility coupled with inequality of opportunity underpin these frictions, suggesting that if the level of social mobility were increased, it could act as a lever to economic growth.”
The messaging in the US that anyone can make it if they work hard isn’t really that well supported - you are actually less likely to make it than in many other countries. The US is not in the top 20 for social mobility. How is freedom defined in the land of the free?
But all of that flies in the face of John Wayne-isms, that the masochists who blame lethargy, social cliques/mores, and cultural/racial predispositions, etc., etc., ad nauseam, wish to make the sole factors, when often they are the LEAST factors.
Now pardon me, while I go pull myself up out of the ghetto by my western cowboy boots' boot straps. And salute the shrine I keep of The Duke, in the Kitchen Pantry church of self-loathing and self-hatred... as the good economic minion for the corporate egg-sucking and immune elite, that I knew I COULD be, if I only tried to grovel hard enough, and kissed sufficient Wall St. ass..
'Boogieman'
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American dream is live and well, for those who want to work hard for it. Those who bitch about capitalism are lazy and unwilling to better their lives from everything I seen. Factories are willing to throw a 1000 bonus and pay 30+ bucks an hour because they need workers so bad, let that sink in.
no one around here is paying that. half of that maybe. let that sink in... wherever you are isn't here. this is a "right to work" state, complete with all of the advantages on the corporate side.
$15/hr is $30K a year full time. People are spoiled with stimmy and welfare (by design). I used to clean fishing boats at Irvine Lake for $1.65/hr
"Sadly, the American dream is dead." - DJT (2015)
What year(s) were u doing this?
Used to is not now. I used to bag groceries for $1.25/hr. Yeah those were the days.
Precisely.
In 1969 I picked green beans for .05 cents/lb., and weeded commercial lettuce plots for .50 cents/hour. but I DAMNED sure wasn't going to rent even a small mop closet to live in on that wage.
And mop closets were relatively cheap back then, too.
