Major life experiences have been stolen from a large % of the population, all to make a handful of people richer. It's tragic.
On the bright-ish side, there’s an even more tragic fate waiting for those handful of people in the coming years…
We'd only have to eat one billionaire and the rest would fall in line
Doesn't matter. Billionaires are food. Gotta eat them all
Which is?
What does this mean?
Violent revolution is inevitable, if not imminent.
If we team up we could afford a fleet of bulldozers. Just sayin.
Bruh there is enough of us we could topple buildings without bulldozers. We just can’t agree on anything in a meaningful way.
Half of America makes more than that now. Though not by much.
https://www.snopes.com/news/2023/05/17/half-americans-make-less-35000/
It's tough because the snopes article moves between individual and household income amounts--which are two very different things. Kinda wish articles were written more clearly, and provided contextual data regarding how many households have multiple earners.
Yes. If you add up mine and all five of my roommates in our one bedroom apartment we make more than 35k lol
And yet you still complain. God damn millennials. Back in my day I worked hard and made 600 bajillion dollars just by moxie. You just need a nice suit and a firm handshake and you'll easily find a better job
EDIT: also, living with other people is communism
The landlord: and I took that personally
The rent: goes even higher for bullshit reasons
This has been driving me crazy. I try to compare the median income in the twin cities and it always provides the median household income. Why is it so difficult to find indivual median income for regions.
If half is making less, the other half is obviously making more.
Big if true.
Large if factual
Giga if brain
The article found the numbers the OP image was based on.
For 2019, according to the SSA, the median net compensation for American workers was indeed less than $35,000 — it was $34,248.45, to be precise
The $35k was rounded. Less than half make more.
Come on, it can't be half and half. Won't somebody think about the poor bastards making EXACTLY 35k?
True dat
The latest (2022) “median net compensation” from SSA is $40,847.18
Ugh, I'm sick and tired of these whiny employees not thinking about the real hardworking heroes of America. Shareholders.
My first job out of college paid $28k/year. Of course that was in the mid 80s. Almost 40 years later, half the country is making less than $7k more than that.
My first teaching job out of college paid $32K/yr and that was in one of the best states for teacher salaries in the country, and this was in 2015
Because there's not enough unions
But we already know the answer to that question.
Ronald Reagan?
In a more perfect world, people would demand union representation, and flee from "right to work" (anti-union) states.
Unfortunately the billionaires have used millions to convince the thousandaires that the hundredaires are the real threat.
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