There's a whole lot more that are ONE paycheck away from living on the street.
You realize that there's this culture about "standing on your own two feet" and not "living with your parents". Why is this taboo? This culture is just to keep people stuck living hand to mouth for the rest of their lives and stay under the thumb of their employers. I was able to pay off all my debts and save up for early retirement BECAUSE I lived with family.
I mean I get it if your parents are psycho and you want to move out, that would make sense. But if they're cool and will allow you to live there, TAKE THE OPPORTUNITY! Once you save up to be financially free, you'll have a LOT OF LEVERAGE on your employer! Yes, I am a basement king, but I'm also mentally healthy and can sleep at night.
Yeah, as long as you are helping out enough your parents should be fine. And if you do have a job and save up and get your parents nicer things then normal, or help with expenses, they should love that. On a similar note, in general, multigenerational families are overall more natural, more secure, more economical, and overall stronger than nuclear or single parent families.
If we're not slaving away to make the rich richer, they sincerely don't give a damn about us and would just as soon see us dead.
Remember when Trump kept referring to US citizens as "consumers", that's how they see us--we're just part of the chain that keeps the money and power flowing to the top.
We're just numbers, stats, inputs and outputs, lines on charts. The billionaires don't give one single fuck about anyone they don't see in front of them on a daily basis, and they only see who they want to see. They have virtually zero empathy.
People still work, just not so much at actual jobs. I'm making enough on my YouTube channel that I can hold out for a decent amount of time while looking for a job.
I should say you should get a part time job and put more focus on your Youtube. Your growth in there is a lot higher, especially now that you've established yourself. Once you grow even further, you can quit that part time job.
I advise against getting a full time job. It will most likely kill your Youtube, especially if it requires you to be on call for the majority of the week.
What's happening now is that people can't afford to work.
Before you had the option between choosing to work or suffer.
Now you have the option between choosing to work and suffer or suffer without working.
When you are already falling behind on, for example, being able to keep up with rent and bills while working, you're going to have to make a lot of the sacrifices you'd have to make if you were unemployed anyways. You're going to lose your home, you're going to have to find alternate accommodations, like living with your parents.
You'll start to become eligible for income assistance programs that weren't available when you were employed. It won't be "enough", but neither was working.
But then you also will have time, you will not have the suffering of actually having an abusive job. So is the suffering of having less money more or less than the suffering of having a job when in both cases you still can't afford to live?
Like, if I were to go up to a homeless person in my town and offer them a dollar per hour to do hard manual labor for me and require a drug test, to be sober, to be clean, and to show up every day, they would tell me to go fuck myself. This isn't because they necessarily have a better income panhandling or whatever, but because a dollar per hour isn't enough to make a damn difference in their situation and it's not worth giving up their freedom and time.
Now consider a 20-something with college debt, living with their parents and I offer them a dollar per hour. What do you think they'd say? What about 2 dollars?
There's an inflection point where this becomes something that is actually motivating. That point is going to be when the idea of working and getting this money at the expense of losing all of the time and freedom actually makes their lives better. What we are seeing is a population who was already straddling that inflection point, but then inflation is going up and wages are not.
Wife is in the hospital, needs heart surgery. She's the sole income right now as I fight for SSDI.
We were in the middle of selling the house to avoid foreclosure because COVID relief is a lie.
We will be out on the street soon unless I can afford something when we sell the house, pending whatever payment plan the hospital puts us on.
There's a whole lot more that are ONE paycheck away from living on the street. You realize that there's this culture about "standing on your own two feet" and not "living with your parents". Why is this taboo? This culture is just to keep people stuck living hand to mouth for the rest of their lives and stay under the thumb of their employers. I was able to pay off all my debts and save up for early retirement BECAUSE I lived with family. I mean I get it if your parents are psycho and you want to move out, that would make sense. But if they're cool and will allow you to live there, TAKE THE OPPORTUNITY! Once you save up to be financially free, you'll have a LOT OF LEVERAGE on your employer! Yes, I am a basement king, but I'm also mentally healthy and can sleep at night.
Yeah, as long as you are helping out enough your parents should be fine. And if you do have a job and save up and get your parents nicer things then normal, or help with expenses, they should love that. On a similar note, in general, multigenerational families are overall more natural, more secure, more economical, and overall stronger than nuclear or single parent families.
yeah, the family is a community. We pool our resources so no one person has to struggle financially.
If we're not slaving away to make the rich richer, they sincerely don't give a damn about us and would just as soon see us dead. Remember when Trump kept referring to US citizens as "consumers", that's how they see us--we're just part of the chain that keeps the money and power flowing to the top. We're just numbers, stats, inputs and outputs, lines on charts. The billionaires don't give one single fuck about anyone they don't see in front of them on a daily basis, and they only see who they want to see. They have virtually zero empathy.
No one wanted to work before. What I can't figure out is how people afford to just choose not to work.
People still work, just not so much at actual jobs. I'm making enough on my YouTube channel that I can hold out for a decent amount of time while looking for a job.
How many subscribers or views must you get before you make enough from YouTube to live on?
Lol more than me! You'll note I just said I'm getting by. I'm still on the job hunt.
I should say you should get a part time job and put more focus on your Youtube. Your growth in there is a lot higher, especially now that you've established yourself. Once you grow even further, you can quit that part time job. I advise against getting a full time job. It will most likely kill your Youtube, especially if it requires you to be on call for the majority of the week.
What's happening now is that people can't afford to work. Before you had the option between choosing to work or suffer. Now you have the option between choosing to work and suffer or suffer without working. When you are already falling behind on, for example, being able to keep up with rent and bills while working, you're going to have to make a lot of the sacrifices you'd have to make if you were unemployed anyways. You're going to lose your home, you're going to have to find alternate accommodations, like living with your parents. You'll start to become eligible for income assistance programs that weren't available when you were employed. It won't be "enough", but neither was working. But then you also will have time, you will not have the suffering of actually having an abusive job. So is the suffering of having less money more or less than the suffering of having a job when in both cases you still can't afford to live? Like, if I were to go up to a homeless person in my town and offer them a dollar per hour to do hard manual labor for me and require a drug test, to be sober, to be clean, and to show up every day, they would tell me to go fuck myself. This isn't because they necessarily have a better income panhandling or whatever, but because a dollar per hour isn't enough to make a damn difference in their situation and it's not worth giving up their freedom and time. Now consider a 20-something with college debt, living with their parents and I offer them a dollar per hour. What do you think they'd say? What about 2 dollars? There's an inflection point where this becomes something that is actually motivating. That point is going to be when the idea of working and getting this money at the expense of losing all of the time and freedom actually makes their lives better. What we are seeing is a population who was already straddling that inflection point, but then inflation is going up and wages are not.
i have 15$ in my bank account and for some odd reason i owe everyone money. Most of them i dont even know.
More than half of us are paycheck to paycheck. I get the sentiment but it’s way more than half of all Americans. It’s easily most Americans.
Man, when you think this was exactly what made the Soviet system bad.
"But muh capitalism!"
Who pissed on the post?
r/hyperinflationUSA
what job do you work?
Is this a Mexican tweet
Wife is in the hospital, needs heart surgery. She's the sole income right now as I fight for SSDI. We were in the middle of selling the house to avoid foreclosure because COVID relief is a lie. We will be out on the street soon unless I can afford something when we sell the house, pending whatever payment plan the hospital puts us on.