Amazon Is Knowingly Selling Suicide Kits To Kids
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Unfortunately, this is not the case. To enjoy even a lower, middle-class lifestyle often requires multiple jobs. There is a breaking point where you can work less and get benefits and do ok or if you make a bit more, you have to foot the bill for the outrageous cost of insuring a family in America.
My brother's job offers insurance that would cost 80% of his take home pay if they were to cover him and the kids.
I pay what my beat up old vehicle is worth annually in insurance because the state requires it.
If you aren't handy and willing to put in the elbow-grease to make shitty products at least livable, you pay a premium to keep up with house/vehicle maintenance. The choice sometimes is between being Money rich and Time poor or being Money poor and Time poor
This.
It is well documented that actual purchasing power has been declining since the 1970's. Inflation hides it because salaries keep rising, but the middle class has taken a huge pay cut because their money doesn't go as far.
At the same time, I see armies of brand new RVs towing trailers with ATVs every summer, and I wonder how the hell people are affording those. I'm pretty well off and I wouldn't even consider such extravagance. Either I'm just seeing the most well-off people on the highway or their in debt to the gills buying all that crap on credit.
I read something that said that wages have doubled since the 70s but the cost of living has gone up six-fold.