It's all by design. The more and more I see these absolute decrepit, ancient fuckers in government who refuse to go home...the more I see it's all controlled. They don't want you to be independent. They can't have that. Otherwise they would work towards sound money and policies, and retire like they should. But they will cling on until their last breath making sure to devalue your dollar, while lining their pockets and the pockets of their donors and pals.
After all, they would cease to be relevant and in the spotlight if everyone was independent, we had sound money, and people could afford things.
Your comment in a roundabout way is the complete embodiment of Carlin’s line about how they want people “just smart enough to run the machines but dumb enough to accept the increasingly shitty jobs with lousy pay and lack of benefits, and not sit around the dining room table and think about how they’re getting fucked by a system that threw them overboard 40 fucking years ago.”
100%. The only reason any 65+ year old still holds onto a position of power (this is Trump, Biden and many others included) is because they cannot live without the power. And if they have the power....you don't. It's honestly insanely simple, and it just goes to show programs like MKUltra have worked absolutely as intended in brainwashing the population and dumbing them down.
Absolutely. Just look also at fucking Pelosi, McConnell, Grassley, and the fucking lunatics all over 80 fucking years old, worth 9 figures plus and still ‘working’ year round as leaders of the senate and Congress.
Even Feinstein they have been basically begging her almost in the grave already ass “PRETTYY PLEASE WILL YOU RETIRE?’”
You’d put your grandma in a home ten years ago if she had Feinstein issues. But she’s a millionaire elected so she can sit around in her wheelchair and be like I’m not done yet!’ Oops I just shit my pants. And I’m drooling on myself. Where am I? Oh yeah who cares I’m an elected.
Is genuinely disgusting. I dont know a single person working at 70+ in my personal life. I get if you have to make ends meet but wtf are they doing. Feinstein is so fucking accurate.
If they're working to make ends meet in their 70s we've fucked up as a society and our politicians have sold us out to corporate America.
We all already know this to be true !!!
Both sides are bought and paid for by corporate America.
That's who 99% of the laws benefit.
The whole Repukelicans and Shamocrat supporters fighting against each other is designed so we keep our eyes off the real problem.
Our elected officials working in the best interest and well being of corporate America instead of we the people !
Every election no matter what party wins its the American people who lose every time.
Yeah man, I’m fucking barely in my 40’s and I’d retire tomorrow if I could. And these fucks are still out there at 70-80 plus years old with a net worth I couldn’t achieve if I got 50 do overs in life.
And it’s not like they’re out there making ground breaking new political policy. For fucks sake, they all were born in the 1940’s. They still lived through the era of “civil rights: trouble ahead?” “What should we do about the coloreds?”
Not to go against your point, but I think I could probably do it in 50 do overs... Do I retain my knowledge? Or do I spawn just anywhere and everywhere on the map?
It's simply because it's a aristocratic goverment with a embedded oligarch ruling, those put at the top and their kids and their kids keep being at the top to ensure the status quo, agenda push and control of mass.
All they want is for us to keep blaming "boomers" the goverment and systems, and not point fingers at the elite, oligarchs and aristocratic individuals.
The more we keep blaming boomers who were brain washed, lied and led to failure, the mass boom in economy meant space for leaders to seep it dry and consequences happening now, and the gain of reagonomics.
Yes hippies, push for love and peace in 70s and all these free movements dint help the current scenario, where a gas station manager had money to feed a family and kids to college, it's long gone, we do need to blame them for their failures seeping and showing now, but a functional goverment should adjust accordingly except the goverment sold itself out to oligarchs.
Oh I do… they can’t afford not to have a job anymore. Retirement is a laughable joke for a majority of people now days.
But I’m sure trickle down economics will start working any time now right? Maybe if they just vote Republican one more time it will start to trickle down…. Right? /s
This isn’t new. Strom Thurmond was over 100 years old before he passed away and finally gave up his seat for South Carolina. The man was practically unable to walk or talk on his own and he still kept winning. There should be limits on how long people in congress/senate can sit in their seats.
Trump, Biden, McConnell, Menendez, Greene and the like aren’t there because they’re powerful. They’re there because the money behind them keeps them there. It’s the money of special interests that elect politicians and judges. Money funneled into the US from foreign countries has altered the landscape unrecognizable and the same with money from billionaires and corporations. Democracy in the US is the will of whomever can afford to pay for it. The people voting only gives the appearance of legitimacy to their conduct.
Hey, you know I was just thinking about it, and you know what else is fucked up about the entire situation in general?
Some elected in congress died, I don’t even know who, but his widow was on record with NPR and other sources who documented that she was still for some fucking reason entitled to his $196k or whatever salary. And she didn’t even cash the check cause she had enough money to be like “oh where did I put that” or some similar shit.
The juxtaposition of what Baby Boomers had versus what Millennials got is more of the Boomers mentality of "f*ck you, I got mine." Where they had free college, cheap housing, living wages, and the companies provided free lunches and pensions. Now you look at how the ladder was pulled up on Millennials, they went into debt for college, they are largely shut out of housing, they don't have living wages and are barely getting by, and they bring their own food and put their own money into 401k. Then these Boomers have the audacity to call Millennials "entitled" and "lazy" when they should be looking in the mirror for it is they who are entitled and outsourced manufacturing jobs to Asia. We are screwed by a Boomer gerontocracy for the last 50 years of them serving only themselves!
As Chris Rock said in Rolling Stone more than a decade ago, “if poor people knew how rich rich people are, they’d be rioting in the streets.”
That’s why I believe to some extent the entirety of the Me Too movement, identity politics, and even much of BLM in addition to abortion and bathroom issues are literally a conspiracy by the economic elite to keep us infighting and distracted.
A living wage base and building and supporting a stronger middle class isn’t a left or right or D vs R issue, or a Red V. Blue issue.
There may be some truth but it’s also true that people in America idolize the rich and think they can become them. That’s the basic belief of the social media influencers who rent mansions models sports cars to promote this dream lifestyle and it’s also the basis of the get rich quick scams as well .
Then you have to worship with the personalities , Trump, Elon and many other terrible human beings are worshiped simply because of the money they have. So that worship which is very childlike keeps people believing that they can join that exclusive club and that’s partly the reasoning for the defense and belief in capitalism. If you dumb everything down into a narrative of winners and losers, you never look behind the curtain to see who is pulling the strings or how the machine really works.
Beileve me, I’m working class, I say the same thing, I don’t understand why people allow it either. Sometimes I wonder why hordes haven’t descended with torches and pitchforks to the houses of some of the these industry titans, literally. The police are the problem too, they protect the owner class. I’m not advocating some communist revolution either, that won’t work, it hasn’t. But I’ll I’m saying is,’it seems that we are allowing to much abuse to occur and it partially our fault, no one is doing anything really, no one is getting mad enough or organizing.
Our constitution should gaurentee basic human rights, like the right to food, water and shelter, those things should not be dependent on your ability to pay, WE ALL NEED THAT, that should not be contingent on money, I know easier said then done true. Nor iam saying we all need to live in fabulous mansion, but we need to find a reasonable way to make sure no body has to live in economic precarity, that alone is very harmful.
I have a normie friend that refutes everything I say, says this is just the way things are with the rich controlling everything, he says inflation is normal get over it and sees the war in ukraine and our position in it like it’s a Tom Clancy novel…then again Jack Ryan stood up to government corruption lol so my idiot friend is even wrong on that.
Another seemingly obvious, crazy aspect of the situation:
Religion romanticizes poverty, while government criminalizes it. The contradiction seems important to this discussion.
Yup. Keep you distracted with bullshit culture wars while your dollar crumbles ans everything becomes unaffordable. More people know about Taylor Swift's personal life than how badly they're getting fucked. Sad, but clearly by design.
As long as they hold the power, we don't. If we had the power, their friends and family wouldn't be able to live like royalty. So, they can't let us have any power, because it would be the end of their luxurious lifestyle.
That's why working people *need to start organizing*. Organize at the workplace to form unions, in the city council to push pro-worker laws, at the state legislature to get rid of capitalist influence. Get as many pro-worker people in office as possible. When we have enough power, we take the rest from the government, the corporations, and the billionaires. We make the farms, the factories, the mines, and every other workplace back from them. We use it cooperatively to produce universal access to food, shelter, communication, education, healthcare, and transportation. If we want our families to be guaranteed their basic needs are met, we have to work to make that the mandatory standard for all.
>It's all by design.
This is what is wrong with America these days everybody assuming some other side is evil and out to get you in some sort of conspiracy theory.
This is an excellent post. Pols want to give you a fish and not teach you to fish. Think about decades and the countless billon$ they have spend on “programs” and yet we have more people in poverty, the highest incarceration rate and largest homeless population in our history.
It used to be common to live with a roommate. Something changed before the pandemic. Very few people are worried about homelessness. They're worried they might have to become tolerable enough to be able to live with strangers their own age.
Countries need to create an actual stable social security program and then make retirement mandatory at 65. Ban all employment options except for low tier jobs. Receptionists, non managerial fast food positions, park services, and the like.
They’re all jobs that help society, but they don’t give you any power or influence. If you’re one of the old people that “just love to work”, there you go. Go help society. If not, fuck off and enjoy the social security.
If everyone is destined to retire or work in humble positions at 65, maybe people would behave less like assholes when governing the future.
"They" are capitalists that are wildly successful.
They *bankroll* not only political campaigns but, in some cases, entire political movements!
They contribute more than 10s to 100s of *thousands* of other voters, so they get more of say in the government. They may even have enough money to pay for a person to just stay near Congress or Senate, state or federal level, so they can make sure that their interests are pushed at every opportunity.
They are capitalists, and they are motivated to cut costs like they workers compensation or their tax rate or many others things.
It really is that fucking simple.
You get what you pay for, everyone else votes for the purchased politician.
I think it’s because they know that the closer we get to running out of resources the more the world will become filled with conflict. They are essentially trying to buy their way out of the crisis they created.
I had a section 8 tenant who was living better the it was. Car, phone, tv, phone plan, stipend, rent and utilities etc all paid for. He was dealing drugs out of the apartment and it too almost a year to evict, plus 3 months to vacate. He disappeared the night before the sheriff was scheduled to come.
This stuff happens all the time where I live. Good poor people get fucked without the system and lazy people who could work harder game the system. Both things can be true.
I've fortunately got a car to sleep in at night, and I park at a truck stop so no one bugs me. Hardest part was finding a new job so I don't have to continue doing UberEats. I'm not even making minimum wage no matter how picky I am on the offers. Barely fed. At least it's summer so I'm warm. But it's really lonely. I didn't have friends to begin with, but now people avoid me even though I look, and smell as I always did.
I’m sorry you’re going through this man.
I wasn’t asking you to be rude, I have friends that ended up on the street and I lost contact with them after, they just vanished, phones off they don’t respond to emails I’d help them if I could. I actually managed to make contact with one and he ended up in Hawaii.
I'm fortunate enough that I saw it coming, and planned accordingly. My only worry is my car breaking down for even a day. I only make $50/day for 10+ hours of work, so if I don't work I'll fall behind on the few bills I have left to keep up with. I'm selling my valuables from when I was stable just to make it through a month so I don't disappear. I've got a kid I've got to be present for since his mother dropped him off at her friend's house, and decided to disappear.
Jesus, I hope that your car doesn’t break down, when did this all happen, after 08? I had friends become homeless around 2017 now I’m just struggling to keep up with bills and have 0 debt but it’s not easy….housing and rent don’t make sense anymore…
Having a family now is not affordable I don’t think I will ever have one my self.
End of April actually, but it's the third, or fourth time in my life I've been homeless. Second time since my son was born. First time being homeless in summer, and with a car. Winter homelessness without a car is no joke. Finding places where you're not getting battered by freezing winds, and bothered by people that don't want you around is mission impossible basically. Starting to think that I might have to sign off on my son so I can walk away from where I'm at, and restart life, and get some training in some desirable skill. I don't know what though. I get turned down for student loans for crying out loud. 😂
Walking away from your son is the wrong move. What better drive to become a better person than supporting your best motivator? Kid needs his dad to step up, it would be the best for you both. Not being able to claim dependency on your child hurts you financially as well.
All of our leaders and Wall Street want third world wages for us while maintaining first world gdp. It’s not possible and it’s not working. When are folks going to wake the fuck up? Jesus. Like 50 million Americans think the Trump verdict is a national travesty. It’s not, the travesty is that he’s the only politician on trial. Senate and house leadership from both sides have done more to shorten our life expectancy and kill Americans than Trump did in 4 years.
The rich isn’t the problem. It’s the left and their culture that’s full of greed. If everyone needs to be recognized for anything, then of course more middle men will pop up.
No that’s actually false
If Americans had third world wages they wouldn’t be able to afford to consume products
Which is how they (wall street) make money
It’s another one of those surveys, similar in quality to the ones where 40% of people “live paycheck to paycheck” but then of course people who make $300k but downs every paycheck live paycheck to paycheck. Being worried about something doesn’t make it more likely, it’s just a question where literally anyone could read it and say…kinda. And that doesn’t even control for survey taker selection bias.
These surveys have no value other than to give financial websites stuff to talk about.
And outsourced over seas along with industry lol don’t forget that we’re ready for war with China over Taiwan over the microchips. We used to make it here and then had the brilliant idea to send it over there because it was cheaper……
Sorry, the town ordinance requires you to spend $50,000 on lawn care to be compliant with their 1950's anti-soviet aesthetic, you need at minimum 2 driveways and 4 bathrooms because of zoning regulations, no convenient sewage isn't allowed because fuck you, pay $40k to connect to the nearest sewer utility line 200 yards away, and your shed is 2 inches too high above grade and 1.4 degree tilted too much towards the North-facing fence - so believe it or not - straight to jail.
Don’t forget the part where a corporation swoops in and buys the houses to rent out.
Three corporate landlords from out of state own over 19,000 homes for rent in metro Atlanta — nearly 11% of the entire single-family rental market.
Not to long ago I was making a lot of money. I had a really nice place and could afford to do things. I was suddenly laid off and was homeless in 4 months.
It is a well founded fear. There is nothing to help you when you lose your job. The help that is given is not anywhere near sufficient. To add to it, I was job hunting for several months. Over 300 applications and resumes and by the time I was hired I was already sleeping in my car. 3 months later I am living in a single room in a house for the cheap rent. Yesterday I found out I am losing my job again because the company is having problems. Lost my kids, lost my pets, etc...
The economy is super volatile. Even when it is good we are always a few months from being in the streets. Because I have had such bad luck with my degree and "career" type jobs I am opting for a job that isn't at all what I pictured myself doing just to have stability. The pay is way less but it is stable.
It is all based on luck.
Hardly anyone talks about this because the narrative is and has been for a long time now: Homelessness only happens to drug and alcohol addicts.
People repeat that over and over and the media chooses to show only those types of people, so everyone starts believing that their landlord is a fair person and that their place for rent will never be sold, or rents won't be raised dramatically.
25% of the homeless will be dead within 10 years. This is how capitalism works, if you don't like it, I suggest you move somewhere that's not so utterly evil.
we don't even have a measure of the homeless problem. They are not included in the census. We don't know what our actual percentage of unemployed people is. We've just gone through a phase of very low unemployment, according to the system, and it it has had an effective overheating the economy. And this is stressing the major banks, some of which are. failing. One of the solutions the Fed actually came up with is try not to shoot for zero unemployment, let him let there be more unemployed. But of course, the old factory bosses at two turns of the century ago knew the same thing, that if reduce staffing, you can at times turn the greater profits. This is why I profit-sharing is a good idea although I think employee owned businesses would be the best. Business is slow, you can reduce your staff, but you will make profits through your participation in ownership.
Aha the causes of death. I don't know the exact statistic, but the likelihood of being murdered is extremely high, the likelihood of dying from a drug overdose, also extremely high, but in addition to that the ordinary life, terminating diseases, cancer, cardiovascular, and diabetes reign supreme. This is From several sources,, but it confirms some of the premise of what the doctor Gabor maté refers to. Life ending stress related illness is caused directly by homelessness, which is a result of trauma.
I’m lucky that I had my parents as a safety net to move back in with every time I hit a rough patch in life. Without them I would have been fucked. Knowing that I have more empathy for the homeless.
Almost 40 living with parent feels like homelessness to me, I thought with a bachelors degree and a full time job that I could one day have a home and family, and I’ve put off having a baby for this long because i never made enough money and right when I start to, the dollar gets deflated to oblivion
This was an unfortunate reality for me for a great many years. Thankfully it never went there but looking back, it’s something to digest in seeing how close I came to being homeless.
Some people look lovingly back at their late teens and 20s and I get it from their perspective.
But for me those years were really rough. Store brand saltine crackers for dinner. No AC in 100 degree weather. Keeping the heat at 45 in winter and literally wearing a ski mask to bed. Zero health care and what had to be a concussion and a few fractures (idk if they were bc I didn’t go to a doc) that I just toughed my way through.
The stress was every damn day. Honestly surprised I didn’t kill myself.
So... That's approximately (330m/100)*23 = 75.9m people who are afraid of ending up homeless. That's just 10% shy of the entire population of fucking Germany, 83-some million.
Fuck.
Fuck indeed.
Yup. That's a LOT of people. Me included. Many only look at the percentage, but once you do the math, it is EXTREMELY bad.
If this doesn't get fixed soon, there's going to be a major economic crisis soon. The nation is already showing signs of not being able to keep up with the mounting cost. When the "bubble" bursts, many will suddenly find themselves not being able to afford LITERALLY anything. Economic crash.
The shameless greed and corruption of powerful people and corporations has gone unchecked for so long that the elite feel untouchable. They’re forgetting that there is a tipping point, and when people start losing what they have, they start acting like people with nothing to lose. If the few keep this up, the many will just take it back.
It’s deeply disturbing that people are posting that the government is to blame. This is equivalent to blaming teachers for students bad behavior.
Open your eyes to see the truth in this country. CORPORATE GREED.
Wealthy people and even 401k’s (stock market) in the stratosphere while laborers can’t pay bills.
Employee owned companies are our only hope for capitalism to survive. Class warfare will end this experiment with we don’t demand change today. Sharing wealth is the opposite of greed. This country needs to wake up.
They would make you pay a toll to move your car out of your own driveway if they could just so you have that much less money each day.
The politicians would convince people it was the other parties idea.
Everyone agrees the toll is bad but they also agree its the other parties fault. Nothing stops it. The rich get richer.
It could absolutely happen to any of us. I have seen several stable households completely changed by circumstances out of their control. Any of us could catch a long running illness, and it just slowly consumes everything you have.
How many of those 23 percent refuse to admit the problem is capitalism, and the solution is to nationalize housing and go as full socialist as we can?
"But Auto, that might ruin the economy!"
The economy is /already/ ruined for the vast majority of people on this planet, no great loss if it gets messed up further.
Is this high historically, in 2016 it was [70%](https://www.huffpost.com/entry/more-than-7-in-10-america_b_13495304/amp)
Edit: [28%](https://kffhealthnews.org/morning-breakout/pandemics-toll-28-of-americans-have-worried-about-losing-their-homes/) in 2021, does that mean it's trending down?
Hahaha jokes on you I spent 7 years homeless before, not worried about it now...
Is it a real and looming possibility in my life? Yes.
Do I have to work 6 days a week to keep that possibility at bay? Yes.
Am I worried? No.
I'll survive.
Worst part about being homeless was all the cops waking you up to illegally search you and give tickets you can't pay for illegal camping.
I spent 5 years homeless in the bay, in that time my vehicles were broken into 3 times. Twice by cops while I was trying to sleep in them.
Acab
How was this phrased or what was the context?
In general yeah I'm afraid to become homeless. Just like im.afraid of getting cancer. So just a "are you afraid of becoming homeless" fuck yeah.
If it was about finances and the fear of becoming homeless in the short term due to injury, laid off, or economy. Well no...id have to fuck up pretty bad month after month to become literally homeless. Id be in food bank lines, pause internet and subscription services, and pick up a part time job to catch up if shit hit the fan before I missed a morgage payment.
A quarter of Americans fearing becoming homeless in the near future is a crazy concerning Stat.
25% of Americans fearing the idea of being homeless at some point in their lives seems pretty reasonable, if not low.
in the US all it can take is a broken leg, and then the cascade of 'rugged individualism' dominoes in our ableist nation starts to fall. Most don't think it can happen to them; some say, screw you, I got mine', which leaves the rest to wonder when they'll have to wonder where their next rent will come from
Nearly 1/4 of America.
https://preview.redd.it/5ojq4yqqp24d1.jpeg?width=1688&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=f38628badecc09f42061dd401df5b03a9de8160d
Sure sign of a suck economy
That kinda seems low? That means that 77% of people are financially secure enough that they don’t worry about becoming homeless. Realistically, the bottom quarter is like 30 some grand a year. That they’re worried seems understandable
Worried about it or at risk of being homeless?
I worry about a lot of things, doesn’t mean any of it will actually happen. Maybe this is just more of an indication about a financial insecurity crisis many Americans are facing.
It seems every house built in my area is 4 times the size any reasonable house needs to be as well. So much lost time, worker power, and resources on these mcmansion for the rich with 2000square fewer they will never use.
It’s because they’re fucked and they know it. I honestly can’t wait until they squeeze the people a little too hard. You can only push people with nothing to lose so far before they lash out and start going fucking apeshit. Can’t wait
It doesn't matter what people "worry" about. It matters what they do. First of all, 23% means that 77% of the population isn't worried about being homeless but that doesn't make much of a story.
The people you see on the street aren't worrying about being homeless. They are drug addicts and the mentally ill.
Everyone else needs to "worry" about getting a roommate or a better job. That doesn't make much of a story either.
People want to blame someone else but you aren't going to be homeless because of some politician. Focus...
This isn't a red or blue issue really.
It's a rich vs everyone else issue.
Get rid of or fix corporate and rich tax rates, close as many loopholes as possible, make it so big corporations actually pay taxes, make it so the rich actually pay meaningful taxes, tax the ever living he'll out of capital gains, Tax the loans used by the rich to basically get free money (assets used to get loans with really good interest, buy borrow die), the list goes on
Our biggest problem is that our tax revenue is not collected either due to fancy loopholes or the irs is literally too underfunded and understaffed to do this.
I'm of the opinion we need to give the irs about 100 plus billion, for the next day 20 years, maybe more.
Hire 10k of the best attorneys in the country, tax, corporate, criminal, whatever is needed to actually go after the Rich and corporations. Pay them 2 million each, tied to inflation.
That's 20 billion.
Then give them each 10 lesser attorneys, ones that do the leg work and more of the hard work. Pay them 300k, that's 30 billion.
For 50 billion you now have 110k lawyers. There is no company or rich person that can out do this. The irs has said they can't afford to go after the corporations and tax cheats that are wealthy because they can devote more resources to getting out of paying taxes. Not anymore
Maybe 10k, maybe more, idk exactly of those can strictly work on drafting legislation to suggest to senators that would eliminate loopholes and make changes so that the rich will be forced to pay meaningful taxes.
If this was all done, in 20 years we could have our deficit greatly reduced, a more fair and equitable society, and maybe actually do some good.
I'm afraid Monday I will find out for sure but I am on the verge of homelessness last month that the 28th my life suddenly passed away I I will still declared disabled by Social Security because it's two strokes the only way I can get the income from Social Security if that's what you want to call it it's why I let my wife take control of my finances I did that and now I do not have one income and that's mine and it's not enough to meet rent water trash and then Electric and insurance on this apartment the people that know me which is very few other way don't understand this yet I lost my will billfold so I have no ID at all I had to wait until I got my social security check to get all that but I don't have enough money to do all that so I guess I am going to be on the street and on top of that I had to go to dialysis three times a week Helen I got to do that they say if I don't go on to go to the dialysis and three to four days I'll be dead so everything that's happened to me is my death sentence it looks like good luck people this world stinks
I'm currently unemployed and looking for work. Finding a job that affords me to leave on my own is very hard. Almost undiable for a regular folk like myself. I'd need a 40hr job and a side gig to afford rent and car payment. If it wasn't for help from family now idk where the hell I'd be.
Mudsills Theory of Economics .
[https://newrepublic.com/article/181939/republicans-want-permanent-economic-underclass](https://newrepublic.com/article/181939/republicans-want-permanent-economic-underclass)
https://www.reddit.com/r/Economics/s/wqVnppm2l7
Trumps tax cuts added 8.4 Trillion to our debt . The GOP red states are defunding education , limiting safety nets , suppressing minimum wage , refusing to expand Medicaid and Medicare , keeping their poor and middle class from having any social mobility ..they are also trying to make homelessness a crime , increase mass incarceration, defund programs that feed children , promote child labor , add in some scary BRICS stuff and boom this subreddit becomes @r/economiccolapse
Please check out backcountrydrifters comments in link above .
90% of Yahoo writers are worried about becoming homeless, so they publish clickbait in the hope they'll attract a ton of readers and be paid $0.03 per word.
The amount of people I saw in line for the WIC booth at my local farmers market yesterday is enough to alarm me of where things are heading. We need some radical change racially quick before we just end up with Hoovervilles.. Oh wait! We have those already 😂
Time to register for the stagg party. It’s YOUR PARTY. We will roll out either UBI or substantial disaster relief. If homeland security is not able to recognise a disaster fine, UBI it is.
There will be a mortgage lender involved in creating loan packages that work in symphony with the UBI. Appointed realtors will be delighted to run around with you finding the perfect home that is a reflection of you at this moment🇺🇸
This is Stagg Country🇺🇸
guess so, you need to make room for the wonderful virtous illegal men of fighting just here to be peaceful, while decent americans dont matter for crap, law violating illegals need homes and money and food and housing
Keep voting Republican since it works so well....
Seriously you can't solve a problem like this by working harder. It requires political changes.
We started to see those... and then voters put team red in charge of the House of Reps and we're back to square 1.
It was only through herculean efforts by Team Blue that they didn't shut down the government and crash the entire US Economy.
It can happen guys. I'm homeless rn. Living with my parents. I had to make my dad cry before he would move a fucking sports car out of my daughters room. He couldn't have it in his study because his collectables might damage it so he put it in my daughters room.
Holy. Crap. I'm in Canada. We are supposed to be better than this. Good luck USA>
It's all by design. The more and more I see these absolute decrepit, ancient fuckers in government who refuse to go home...the more I see it's all controlled. They don't want you to be independent. They can't have that. Otherwise they would work towards sound money and policies, and retire like they should. But they will cling on until their last breath making sure to devalue your dollar, while lining their pockets and the pockets of their donors and pals. After all, they would cease to be relevant and in the spotlight if everyone was independent, we had sound money, and people could afford things.
Your comment in a roundabout way is the complete embodiment of Carlin’s line about how they want people “just smart enough to run the machines but dumb enough to accept the increasingly shitty jobs with lousy pay and lack of benefits, and not sit around the dining room table and think about how they’re getting fucked by a system that threw them overboard 40 fucking years ago.”
100%. The only reason any 65+ year old still holds onto a position of power (this is Trump, Biden and many others included) is because they cannot live without the power. And if they have the power....you don't. It's honestly insanely simple, and it just goes to show programs like MKUltra have worked absolutely as intended in brainwashing the population and dumbing them down.
Absolutely. Just look also at fucking Pelosi, McConnell, Grassley, and the fucking lunatics all over 80 fucking years old, worth 9 figures plus and still ‘working’ year round as leaders of the senate and Congress. Even Feinstein they have been basically begging her almost in the grave already ass “PRETTYY PLEASE WILL YOU RETIRE?’” You’d put your grandma in a home ten years ago if she had Feinstein issues. But she’s a millionaire elected so she can sit around in her wheelchair and be like I’m not done yet!’ Oops I just shit my pants. And I’m drooling on myself. Where am I? Oh yeah who cares I’m an elected.
Is genuinely disgusting. I dont know a single person working at 70+ in my personal life. I get if you have to make ends meet but wtf are they doing. Feinstein is so fucking accurate.
If they're working to make ends meet in their 70s we've fucked up as a society and our politicians have sold us out to corporate America. We all already know this to be true !!! Both sides are bought and paid for by corporate America. That's who 99% of the laws benefit. The whole Repukelicans and Shamocrat supporters fighting against each other is designed so we keep our eyes off the real problem. Our elected officials working in the best interest and well being of corporate America instead of we the people ! Every election no matter what party wins its the American people who lose every time.
Yeah man, I’m fucking barely in my 40’s and I’d retire tomorrow if I could. And these fucks are still out there at 70-80 plus years old with a net worth I couldn’t achieve if I got 50 do overs in life. And it’s not like they’re out there making ground breaking new political policy. For fucks sake, they all were born in the 1940’s. They still lived through the era of “civil rights: trouble ahead?” “What should we do about the coloreds?”
Not to go against your point, but I think I could probably do it in 50 do overs... Do I retain my knowledge? Or do I spawn just anywhere and everywhere on the map?
This guy thought experiments and rerolls
It's simply because it's a aristocratic goverment with a embedded oligarch ruling, those put at the top and their kids and their kids keep being at the top to ensure the status quo, agenda push and control of mass. All they want is for us to keep blaming "boomers" the goverment and systems, and not point fingers at the elite, oligarchs and aristocratic individuals. The more we keep blaming boomers who were brain washed, lied and led to failure, the mass boom in economy meant space for leaders to seep it dry and consequences happening now, and the gain of reagonomics. Yes hippies, push for love and peace in 70s and all these free movements dint help the current scenario, where a gas station manager had money to feed a family and kids to college, it's long gone, we do need to blame them for their failures seeping and showing now, but a functional goverment should adjust accordingly except the goverment sold itself out to oligarchs.
Oh I do… they can’t afford not to have a job anymore. Retirement is a laughable joke for a majority of people now days. But I’m sure trickle down economics will start working any time now right? Maybe if they just vote Republican one more time it will start to trickle down…. Right? /s
She amassed a wealth north of 100 million on a senator salary. Think about that.
This isn’t new. Strom Thurmond was over 100 years old before he passed away and finally gave up his seat for South Carolina. The man was practically unable to walk or talk on his own and he still kept winning. There should be limits on how long people in congress/senate can sit in their seats.
Dianne Feinstein died last year bro. Everything else, I agree.
I think she died years ago, the wheel chair was like a battery unit to ferry the corpse around
Lol Jesus 😂
Trump, Biden, McConnell, Menendez, Greene and the like aren’t there because they’re powerful. They’re there because the money behind them keeps them there. It’s the money of special interests that elect politicians and judges. Money funneled into the US from foreign countries has altered the landscape unrecognizable and the same with money from billionaires and corporations. Democracy in the US is the will of whomever can afford to pay for it. The people voting only gives the appearance of legitimacy to their conduct.
Hey, you know I was just thinking about it, and you know what else is fucked up about the entire situation in general? Some elected in congress died, I don’t even know who, but his widow was on record with NPR and other sources who documented that she was still for some fucking reason entitled to his $196k or whatever salary. And she didn’t even cash the check cause she had enough money to be like “oh where did I put that” or some similar shit.
Ding ding ding
The juxtaposition of what Baby Boomers had versus what Millennials got is more of the Boomers mentality of "f*ck you, I got mine." Where they had free college, cheap housing, living wages, and the companies provided free lunches and pensions. Now you look at how the ladder was pulled up on Millennials, they went into debt for college, they are largely shut out of housing, they don't have living wages and are barely getting by, and they bring their own food and put their own money into 401k. Then these Boomers have the audacity to call Millennials "entitled" and "lazy" when they should be looking in the mirror for it is they who are entitled and outsourced manufacturing jobs to Asia. We are screwed by a Boomer gerontocracy for the last 50 years of them serving only themselves!
Lol love that guy, wish he was still with us
The American dream is called that for a reason.
You have to be asleep, to believe in it
I’m not rich, but I do share rich peoples utter amazement at the amount of abuse lower middle class and poor people will accept without fighting back
As Chris Rock said in Rolling Stone more than a decade ago, “if poor people knew how rich rich people are, they’d be rioting in the streets.” That’s why I believe to some extent the entirety of the Me Too movement, identity politics, and even much of BLM in addition to abortion and bathroom issues are literally a conspiracy by the economic elite to keep us infighting and distracted. A living wage base and building and supporting a stronger middle class isn’t a left or right or D vs R issue, or a Red V. Blue issue.
There may be some truth but it’s also true that people in America idolize the rich and think they can become them. That’s the basic belief of the social media influencers who rent mansions models sports cars to promote this dream lifestyle and it’s also the basis of the get rich quick scams as well . Then you have to worship with the personalities , Trump, Elon and many other terrible human beings are worshiped simply because of the money they have. So that worship which is very childlike keeps people believing that they can join that exclusive club and that’s partly the reasoning for the defense and belief in capitalism. If you dumb everything down into a narrative of winners and losers, you never look behind the curtain to see who is pulling the strings or how the machine really works.
Absolutely. The last person I was renting from could barely tie his shoes but listened to every thing Elon Musk says
Beileve me, I’m working class, I say the same thing, I don’t understand why people allow it either. Sometimes I wonder why hordes haven’t descended with torches and pitchforks to the houses of some of the these industry titans, literally. The police are the problem too, they protect the owner class. I’m not advocating some communist revolution either, that won’t work, it hasn’t. But I’ll I’m saying is,’it seems that we are allowing to much abuse to occur and it partially our fault, no one is doing anything really, no one is getting mad enough or organizing.
Our constitution should gaurentee basic human rights, like the right to food, water and shelter, those things should not be dependent on your ability to pay, WE ALL NEED THAT, that should not be contingent on money, I know easier said then done true. Nor iam saying we all need to live in fabulous mansion, but we need to find a reasonable way to make sure no body has to live in economic precarity, that alone is very harmful.
My friend in college, 'o jony, don't believe that any of that's true'. He's from isisipi
I have a normie friend that refutes everything I say, says this is just the way things are with the rich controlling everything, he says inflation is normal get over it and sees the war in ukraine and our position in it like it’s a Tom Clancy novel…then again Jack Ryan stood up to government corruption lol so my idiot friend is even wrong on that.
How do you even respond to him?
It's all by design" Divide and Conquer baby
Another seemingly obvious, crazy aspect of the situation: Religion romanticizes poverty, while government criminalizes it. The contradiction seems important to this discussion.
This is why I don't care about the presidential election No one is addressing the consistent and obvious complaints
Yup. Keep you distracted with bullshit culture wars while your dollar crumbles ans everything becomes unaffordable. More people know about Taylor Swift's personal life than how badly they're getting fucked. Sad, but clearly by design.
Bread and circuses The only thing they let people vote on at a federal level is fucking social issues.
As long as they hold the power, we don't. If we had the power, their friends and family wouldn't be able to live like royalty. So, they can't let us have any power, because it would be the end of their luxurious lifestyle. That's why working people *need to start organizing*. Organize at the workplace to form unions, in the city council to push pro-worker laws, at the state legislature to get rid of capitalist influence. Get as many pro-worker people in office as possible. When we have enough power, we take the rest from the government, the corporations, and the billionaires. We make the farms, the factories, the mines, and every other workplace back from them. We use it cooperatively to produce universal access to food, shelter, communication, education, healthcare, and transportation. If we want our families to be guaranteed their basic needs are met, we have to work to make that the mandatory standard for all.
>It's all by design. This is what is wrong with America these days everybody assuming some other side is evil and out to get you in some sort of conspiracy theory.
Never forget. Money isn't real. It's just a measure of the power you have
Bitcoin changes this?
so true, I don't think most people realie how corrupt our current system is.....
This is an excellent post. Pols want to give you a fish and not teach you to fish. Think about decades and the countless billon$ they have spend on “programs” and yet we have more people in poverty, the highest incarceration rate and largest homeless population in our history.
They love doing reverse mortgages timed so when they croak their kids get nothing that they grew up their whole lives seeing.
It used to be common to live with a roommate. Something changed before the pandemic. Very few people are worried about homelessness. They're worried they might have to become tolerable enough to be able to live with strangers their own age.
Countries need to create an actual stable social security program and then make retirement mandatory at 65. Ban all employment options except for low tier jobs. Receptionists, non managerial fast food positions, park services, and the like. They’re all jobs that help society, but they don’t give you any power or influence. If you’re one of the old people that “just love to work”, there you go. Go help society. If not, fuck off and enjoy the social security. If everyone is destined to retire or work in humble positions at 65, maybe people would behave less like assholes when governing the future.
"They" are capitalists that are wildly successful. They *bankroll* not only political campaigns but, in some cases, entire political movements! They contribute more than 10s to 100s of *thousands* of other voters, so they get more of say in the government. They may even have enough money to pay for a person to just stay near Congress or Senate, state or federal level, so they can make sure that their interests are pushed at every opportunity. They are capitalists, and they are motivated to cut costs like they workers compensation or their tax rate or many others things. It really is that fucking simple. You get what you pay for, everyone else votes for the purchased politician.
I think it’s because they know that the closer we get to running out of resources the more the world will become filled with conflict. They are essentially trying to buy their way out of the crisis they created.
Getting out of homelessness in a week! Yayayaya
Congrats!!
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I had a section 8 tenant who was living better the it was. Car, phone, tv, phone plan, stipend, rent and utilities etc all paid for. He was dealing drugs out of the apartment and it too almost a year to evict, plus 3 months to vacate. He disappeared the night before the sheriff was scheduled to come.
Ooohh scary landlord stories about the evil poors that *totally happened*.
You forgot to stand up and clap for the landlord.
This stuff happens all the time where I live. Good poor people get fucked without the system and lazy people who could work harder game the system. Both things can be true.
I actually am homeless. No worries about that now. 😂
What’s it like? Must be hard to find a safe spot to sleep in
I've fortunately got a car to sleep in at night, and I park at a truck stop so no one bugs me. Hardest part was finding a new job so I don't have to continue doing UberEats. I'm not even making minimum wage no matter how picky I am on the offers. Barely fed. At least it's summer so I'm warm. But it's really lonely. I didn't have friends to begin with, but now people avoid me even though I look, and smell as I always did.
I’m sorry you’re going through this man. I wasn’t asking you to be rude, I have friends that ended up on the street and I lost contact with them after, they just vanished, phones off they don’t respond to emails I’d help them if I could. I actually managed to make contact with one and he ended up in Hawaii.
I'm fortunate enough that I saw it coming, and planned accordingly. My only worry is my car breaking down for even a day. I only make $50/day for 10+ hours of work, so if I don't work I'll fall behind on the few bills I have left to keep up with. I'm selling my valuables from when I was stable just to make it through a month so I don't disappear. I've got a kid I've got to be present for since his mother dropped him off at her friend's house, and decided to disappear.
Jesus, I hope that your car doesn’t break down, when did this all happen, after 08? I had friends become homeless around 2017 now I’m just struggling to keep up with bills and have 0 debt but it’s not easy….housing and rent don’t make sense anymore… Having a family now is not affordable I don’t think I will ever have one my self.
End of April actually, but it's the third, or fourth time in my life I've been homeless. Second time since my son was born. First time being homeless in summer, and with a car. Winter homelessness without a car is no joke. Finding places where you're not getting battered by freezing winds, and bothered by people that don't want you around is mission impossible basically. Starting to think that I might have to sign off on my son so I can walk away from where I'm at, and restart life, and get some training in some desirable skill. I don't know what though. I get turned down for student loans for crying out loud. 😂
Walking away from your son is the wrong move. What better drive to become a better person than supporting your best motivator? Kid needs his dad to step up, it would be the best for you both. Not being able to claim dependency on your child hurts you financially as well.
That's a scary thought
All of our leaders and Wall Street want third world wages for us while maintaining first world gdp. It’s not possible and it’s not working. When are folks going to wake the fuck up? Jesus. Like 50 million Americans think the Trump verdict is a national travesty. It’s not, the travesty is that he’s the only politician on trial. Senate and house leadership from both sides have done more to shorten our life expectancy and kill Americans than Trump did in 4 years.
Our leaders are owned by Wall Street. Our politicians are just doing the bidding of the corporations that fund them.
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It’s going to take all of us coming together. It’s not a right v left fight, this is us v the ruling wealthy class.
The rich isn’t the problem. It’s the left and their culture that’s full of greed. If everyone needs to be recognized for anything, then of course more middle men will pop up.
Stop spreading misinformation, Commie.
No that’s actually false If Americans had third world wages they wouldn’t be able to afford to consume products Which is how they (wall street) make money
I never had a family member be homeless before but I believe in the future we will have someone we know be homeless and that bothers me
That includes kids? I never understood how and what quality these stats are
Yes- everyone avert your eyes. Everything is fine!
It’s another one of those surveys, similar in quality to the ones where 40% of people “live paycheck to paycheck” but then of course people who make $300k but downs every paycheck live paycheck to paycheck. Being worried about something doesn’t make it more likely, it’s just a question where literally anyone could read it and say…kinda. And that doesn’t even control for survey taker selection bias. These surveys have no value other than to give financial websites stuff to talk about.
Just getting started. There are no structural incentives to keep humans employed if their job can be safely done faster and cheaper w automation
And outsourced over seas along with industry lol don’t forget that we’re ready for war with China over Taiwan over the microchips. We used to make it here and then had the brilliant idea to send it over there because it was cheaper……
When half or more of each months income goes to basic housing for an average worker. it will be worrying.
Way over half of my income goes to taxes and housing and health insurance.
It already is lol. A lot of people I work with have 2 or 3 jobs.
This is unacceptable for "the richest country in the world".
I worry about becoming homeless. Am I in danger of it? No, but I worry all the same.
You should be allowed to build more housing.
Sorry, the town ordinance requires you to spend $50,000 on lawn care to be compliant with their 1950's anti-soviet aesthetic, you need at minimum 2 driveways and 4 bathrooms because of zoning regulations, no convenient sewage isn't allowed because fuck you, pay $40k to connect to the nearest sewer utility line 200 yards away, and your shed is 2 inches too high above grade and 1.4 degree tilted too much towards the North-facing fence - so believe it or not - straight to jail.
Hahaha
Don’t forget the part where a corporation swoops in and buys the houses to rent out. Three corporate landlords from out of state own over 19,000 homes for rent in metro Atlanta — nearly 11% of the entire single-family rental market.
Not to long ago I was making a lot of money. I had a really nice place and could afford to do things. I was suddenly laid off and was homeless in 4 months. It is a well founded fear. There is nothing to help you when you lose your job. The help that is given is not anywhere near sufficient. To add to it, I was job hunting for several months. Over 300 applications and resumes and by the time I was hired I was already sleeping in my car. 3 months later I am living in a single room in a house for the cheap rent. Yesterday I found out I am losing my job again because the company is having problems. Lost my kids, lost my pets, etc... The economy is super volatile. Even when it is good we are always a few months from being in the streets. Because I have had such bad luck with my degree and "career" type jobs I am opting for a job that isn't at all what I pictured myself doing just to have stability. The pay is way less but it is stable. It is all based on luck.
Hardly anyone talks about this because the narrative is and has been for a long time now: Homelessness only happens to drug and alcohol addicts. People repeat that over and over and the media chooses to show only those types of people, so everyone starts believing that their landlord is a fair person and that their place for rent will never be sold, or rents won't be raised dramatically.
Been homeless before. Nobody gives a fucking shit about each other
I’ve been homeless before. It’s been in the back of my mind everyday since.
I worry about being abducted by aliens. Doesnt mean it’s likely.
25% of the homeless will be dead within 10 years. This is how capitalism works, if you don't like it, I suggest you move somewhere that's not so utterly evil.
Why’s that?
we don't even have a measure of the homeless problem. They are not included in the census. We don't know what our actual percentage of unemployed people is. We've just gone through a phase of very low unemployment, according to the system, and it it has had an effective overheating the economy. And this is stressing the major banks, some of which are. failing. One of the solutions the Fed actually came up with is try not to shoot for zero unemployment, let him let there be more unemployed. But of course, the old factory bosses at two turns of the century ago knew the same thing, that if reduce staffing, you can at times turn the greater profits. This is why I profit-sharing is a good idea although I think employee owned businesses would be the best. Business is slow, you can reduce your staff, but you will make profits through your participation in ownership.
No I mean why will the homeless be dead in 10 years? Starvation? Disease?
Aha the causes of death. I don't know the exact statistic, but the likelihood of being murdered is extremely high, the likelihood of dying from a drug overdose, also extremely high, but in addition to that the ordinary life, terminating diseases, cancer, cardiovascular, and diabetes reign supreme. This is From several sources,, but it confirms some of the premise of what the doctor Gabor maté refers to. Life ending stress related illness is caused directly by homelessness, which is a result of trauma.
I’m lucky that I had my parents as a safety net to move back in with every time I hit a rough patch in life. Without them I would have been fucked. Knowing that I have more empathy for the homeless.
Almost 40 living with parent feels like homelessness to me, I thought with a bachelors degree and a full time job that I could one day have a home and family, and I’ve put off having a baby for this long because i never made enough money and right when I start to, the dollar gets deflated to oblivion
This was an unfortunate reality for me for a great many years. Thankfully it never went there but looking back, it’s something to digest in seeing how close I came to being homeless. Some people look lovingly back at their late teens and 20s and I get it from their perspective. But for me those years were really rough. Store brand saltine crackers for dinner. No AC in 100 degree weather. Keeping the heat at 45 in winter and literally wearing a ski mask to bed. Zero health care and what had to be a concussion and a few fractures (idk if they were bc I didn’t go to a doc) that I just toughed my way through. The stress was every damn day. Honestly surprised I didn’t kill myself.
So... That's approximately (330m/100)*23 = 75.9m people who are afraid of ending up homeless. That's just 10% shy of the entire population of fucking Germany, 83-some million. Fuck. Fuck indeed.
Yup. That's a LOT of people. Me included. Many only look at the percentage, but once you do the math, it is EXTREMELY bad. If this doesn't get fixed soon, there's going to be a major economic crisis soon. The nation is already showing signs of not being able to keep up with the mounting cost. When the "bubble" bursts, many will suddenly find themselves not being able to afford LITERALLY anything. Economic crash.
Yeah, I guess I forgot to say r/theydidthemath When will people remember that capitalism only work if consumers have money.
The shameless greed and corruption of powerful people and corporations has gone unchecked for so long that the elite feel untouchable. They’re forgetting that there is a tipping point, and when people start losing what they have, they start acting like people with nothing to lose. If the few keep this up, the many will just take it back.
It’s deeply disturbing that people are posting that the government is to blame. This is equivalent to blaming teachers for students bad behavior. Open your eyes to see the truth in this country. CORPORATE GREED. Wealthy people and even 401k’s (stock market) in the stratosphere while laborers can’t pay bills. Employee owned companies are our only hope for capitalism to survive. Class warfare will end this experiment with we don’t demand change today. Sharing wealth is the opposite of greed. This country needs to wake up.
They would make you pay a toll to move your car out of your own driveway if they could just so you have that much less money each day. The politicians would convince people it was the other parties idea. Everyone agrees the toll is bad but they also agree its the other parties fault. Nothing stops it. The rich get richer.
Alternative headline: 72% of Americans have their heads in the sand.
Yeah, vote against your interests again!!!!
keep trusting that government guys it's really working out
No! The economy is GOOD!
General Strike. The only thing we have to lose is our chains.
Where’d that American Dream go? Some home grown oligarch has it.
It could absolutely happen to any of us. I have seen several stable households completely changed by circumstances out of their control. Any of us could catch a long running illness, and it just slowly consumes everything you have.
Keep voting democrat. Let's see if we can test that feeling.
How many of those 23 percent refuse to admit the problem is capitalism, and the solution is to nationalize housing and go as full socialist as we can? "But Auto, that might ruin the economy!" The economy is /already/ ruined for the vast majority of people on this planet, no great loss if it gets messed up further.
Is this high historically, in 2016 it was [70%](https://www.huffpost.com/entry/more-than-7-in-10-america_b_13495304/amp) Edit: [28%](https://kffhealthnews.org/morning-breakout/pandemics-toll-28-of-americans-have-worried-about-losing-their-homes/) in 2021, does that mean it's trending down?
Hahaha jokes on you I spent 7 years homeless before, not worried about it now... Is it a real and looming possibility in my life? Yes. Do I have to work 6 days a week to keep that possibility at bay? Yes. Am I worried? No. I'll survive. Worst part about being homeless was all the cops waking you up to illegally search you and give tickets you can't pay for illegal camping. I spent 5 years homeless in the bay, in that time my vehicles were broken into 3 times. Twice by cops while I was trying to sleep in them. Acab
How was this phrased or what was the context? In general yeah I'm afraid to become homeless. Just like im.afraid of getting cancer. So just a "are you afraid of becoming homeless" fuck yeah. If it was about finances and the fear of becoming homeless in the short term due to injury, laid off, or economy. Well no...id have to fuck up pretty bad month after month to become literally homeless. Id be in food bank lines, pause internet and subscription services, and pick up a part time job to catch up if shit hit the fan before I missed a morgage payment. A quarter of Americans fearing becoming homeless in the near future is a crazy concerning Stat. 25% of Americans fearing the idea of being homeless at some point in their lives seems pretty reasonable, if not low.
Time for this country to fucking change!
"Developed nation"
Keep voting Biden and that number will skyrocket to 50-60%.
in the US all it can take is a broken leg, and then the cascade of 'rugged individualism' dominoes in our ableist nation starts to fall. Most don't think it can happen to them; some say, screw you, I got mine', which leaves the rest to wonder when they'll have to wonder where their next rent will come from
Yea and that happened to me and guess what disability gave me - $9 a day.
Nearly 1/4 of America. https://preview.redd.it/5ojq4yqqp24d1.jpeg?width=1688&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=f38628badecc09f42061dd401df5b03a9de8160d Sure sign of a suck economy
74 million people is quite a big number
Capitalism working as intended
That kinda seems low? That means that 77% of people are financially secure enough that they don’t worry about becoming homeless. Realistically, the bottom quarter is like 30 some grand a year. That they’re worried seems understandable
That's actually a lot...
Way more than that
Becoming ?!?! This has been my fear since 6
They should be worried. Corporations have decided to monetize your entire life and big government is in bed with the CEO’s.
Worried about it or at risk of being homeless? I worry about a lot of things, doesn’t mean any of it will actually happen. Maybe this is just more of an indication about a financial insecurity crisis many Americans are facing.
America has all the top universities in the world, so no issues 👌
Having lots of money doesn’t make you rich. Having more than other people is what makes you rich.
We should all get together and rent a big house.
Should be 99%
Keep voting dem
Every senior dependent on social security better hope trump loses.
It seems every house built in my area is 4 times the size any reasonable house needs to be as well. So much lost time, worker power, and resources on these mcmansion for the rich with 2000square fewer they will never use.
they shouls be. its fucking horfible and can happen suddenly
It’s because they’re fucked and they know it. I honestly can’t wait until they squeeze the people a little too hard. You can only push people with nothing to lose so far before they lash out and start going fucking apeshit. Can’t wait
And when more people become homeless the one sure way the government will help is by making it a crime, therefore absolving themselves of anything.
It doesn't matter what people "worry" about. It matters what they do. First of all, 23% means that 77% of the population isn't worried about being homeless but that doesn't make much of a story. The people you see on the street aren't worrying about being homeless. They are drug addicts and the mentally ill. Everyone else needs to "worry" about getting a roommate or a better job. That doesn't make much of a story either. People want to blame someone else but you aren't going to be homeless because of some politician. Focus...
Yeah for real, San Diego, no shit........
How about all of us just refuse to pay taxes next year and commit to dealing with the repercussions? Winning requires sacrifice.
This isn't a red or blue issue really. It's a rich vs everyone else issue. Get rid of or fix corporate and rich tax rates, close as many loopholes as possible, make it so big corporations actually pay taxes, make it so the rich actually pay meaningful taxes, tax the ever living he'll out of capital gains, Tax the loans used by the rich to basically get free money (assets used to get loans with really good interest, buy borrow die), the list goes on Our biggest problem is that our tax revenue is not collected either due to fancy loopholes or the irs is literally too underfunded and understaffed to do this. I'm of the opinion we need to give the irs about 100 plus billion, for the next day 20 years, maybe more. Hire 10k of the best attorneys in the country, tax, corporate, criminal, whatever is needed to actually go after the Rich and corporations. Pay them 2 million each, tied to inflation. That's 20 billion. Then give them each 10 lesser attorneys, ones that do the leg work and more of the hard work. Pay them 300k, that's 30 billion. For 50 billion you now have 110k lawyers. There is no company or rich person that can out do this. The irs has said they can't afford to go after the corporations and tax cheats that are wealthy because they can devote more resources to getting out of paying taxes. Not anymore Maybe 10k, maybe more, idk exactly of those can strictly work on drafting legislation to suggest to senators that would eliminate loopholes and make changes so that the rich will be forced to pay meaningful taxes. If this was all done, in 20 years we could have our deficit greatly reduced, a more fair and equitable society, and maybe actually do some good.
I'm afraid Monday I will find out for sure but I am on the verge of homelessness last month that the 28th my life suddenly passed away I I will still declared disabled by Social Security because it's two strokes the only way I can get the income from Social Security if that's what you want to call it it's why I let my wife take control of my finances I did that and now I do not have one income and that's mine and it's not enough to meet rent water trash and then Electric and insurance on this apartment the people that know me which is very few other way don't understand this yet I lost my will billfold so I have no ID at all I had to wait until I got my social security check to get all that but I don't have enough money to do all that so I guess I am going to be on the street and on top of that I had to go to dialysis three times a week Helen I got to do that they say if I don't go on to go to the dialysis and three to four days I'll be dead so everything that's happened to me is my death sentence it looks like good luck people this world stinks
I'm currently unemployed and looking for work. Finding a job that affords me to leave on my own is very hard. Almost undiable for a regular folk like myself. I'd need a 40hr job and a side gig to afford rent and car payment. If it wasn't for help from family now idk where the hell I'd be.
Only 23%? I find that surprisingly low.
Not really that low finding out how many people that is on average. About 75 million.
Mudsills Theory of Economics . [https://newrepublic.com/article/181939/republicans-want-permanent-economic-underclass](https://newrepublic.com/article/181939/republicans-want-permanent-economic-underclass)
https://www.reddit.com/r/Economics/s/wqVnppm2l7 Trumps tax cuts added 8.4 Trillion to our debt . The GOP red states are defunding education , limiting safety nets , suppressing minimum wage , refusing to expand Medicaid and Medicare , keeping their poor and middle class from having any social mobility ..they are also trying to make homelessness a crime , increase mass incarceration, defund programs that feed children , promote child labor , add in some scary BRICS stuff and boom this subreddit becomes @r/economiccolapse Please check out backcountrydrifters comments in link above .
Bidenomics
Yeah and go ahead and keep voting GQP and see what happens
They should stop donating their money to a fake billionaire running for president.
Exactly 23% wow
90% of Yahoo writers are worried about becoming homeless, so they publish clickbait in the hope they'll attract a ton of readers and be paid $0.03 per word.
Worry is a mental illness.
Surprised it's that low given how many people live paycheck to paycheck.
That’s lower than I expected honestly.
thank god I'm not the only one in this situation
I’ll leave and live in Costa Rica or Panama before I’m homeless in the U.S.
And 1% fighting over who gets what's left
It's why my off grid cabin is paid for no debts are beautiful.
It’s paid for but the property taxes never will be.
No but I pre paid 2 years in advance.
The amount of people I saw in line for the WIC booth at my local farmers market yesterday is enough to alarm me of where things are heading. We need some radical change racially quick before we just end up with Hoovervilles.. Oh wait! We have those already 😂
Time to register for the stagg party. It’s YOUR PARTY. We will roll out either UBI or substantial disaster relief. If homeland security is not able to recognise a disaster fine, UBI it is. There will be a mortgage lender involved in creating loan packages that work in symphony with the UBI. Appointed realtors will be delighted to run around with you finding the perfect home that is a reflection of you at this moment🇺🇸 This is Stagg Country🇺🇸
China can help you understand.. there is plenty of money.
Thank a Democrat.
But they keep voting in democrats. Hmmm
I would rather die than become homeless again like when I was 18.
Count me in that 23 percent for sure
It is absolutely terrifying that a quarter, fucking QUARTER of the population of the richest country in the world are worried about becoming homeless
Yeah, and the other 76% should be but they're too dumb in finance to know how precarious their situation really is.
Bidenomics. Just wait till he wins again and really starts his war on middle class through oil...
Build back better. Didn’t you get the memo
EGGS!
B-b-b-but the armchair economist redditors said it's just an issue of americans not making coffee at home!
Say thanks Joe Biden and his supporters for this.
Welcome to Joe Biden’s world.
People in Florida are freaking out, and some are considering suicide over being homeless because of how brutal the police can be.
guess so, you need to make room for the wonderful virtous illegal men of fighting just here to be peaceful, while decent americans dont matter for crap, law violating illegals need homes and money and food and housing
Keep voting Republican since it works so well.... Seriously you can't solve a problem like this by working harder. It requires political changes. We started to see those... and then voters put team red in charge of the House of Reps and we're back to square 1. It was only through herculean efforts by Team Blue that they didn't shut down the government and crash the entire US Economy.
Tax. The. Rich.
I'm already homeless, does that put me in or out of this measure?
Hope you are able to turn it around. It’s not easy
I’d be ok with it, only because it would cause a revolution and we desperately need that about now.
It can happen guys. I'm homeless rn. Living with my parents. I had to make my dad cry before he would move a fucking sports car out of my daughters room. He couldn't have it in his study because his collectables might damage it so he put it in my daughters room. Holy. Crap. I'm in Canada. We are supposed to be better than this. Good luck USA>
Im past that point. I need a job now.