A Boring Dystopia

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What does it mean? (lemmy.world)

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[–] roofuskit@lemmy.world 33 points 4 hours ago (1 children)

How incredibly privileged to not even be able to conceptualize that phrase.

[–] Eyekaytee@aussie.zone 9 points 2 hours ago (1 children)

Well I mean when you say 8 in 10 are living paycheck to paycheck that got my ears up, sounds like BS to me, Americans are the heaviest spending nation on earth but you'd think they'd do a little better than 80% of them being 1 missed payday away from being broke

In contrast, the Federal Reserve found that 54% of Americans have emergency savings to cover three months of expenses. Bankrate found that while 59% of Americans are uncomfortable with their level of emergency savings, 34% are living paycheck to paycheck.

https://econofact.org/factbrief/is-there-a-consensus-that-a-majority-of-americans-are-living-paycheck-to-paycheck

[–] lemmyman@lemmy.world 5 points 43 minutes ago

Also, supposedly 41% of people earning 300-500k/yr are "paycheck to paycheck."

I couldnt find it just now, but there was a profile I read on one such person a while back. Of course, after paying private school tuition for 3 kids, monthly payments on their two Mercedes, and maxing out two 401ks, two iras, and hsa...they didn't have much money left over every month.

So I'm willing to believe that the OOP was more about this than about actual hand-to-mouth situations