TL;DR: Americans now need to make $120K a year to afford a typical middle-class life and qualify to purchase a home. Minimum.

  • Flying Squid@lemmy.world
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    10 months ago

    Especially when we have a society with a huge number of people who think that if you’re poor, you deserve it.

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      10 months ago

      What gets me is, a lot of the POOR people say that about POOR people.

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        10 months ago

        We live in the most effectively propagandized society ever created. It hasn’t been until more recently that it’s started to slip. A lot of folks still believe in the old lies and believe that everything would work if we just got rid of the immigrants, Jews, and corrupt politicians. Still I think more people are waking up to the reality that this system is broken not the people in it.

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        10 months ago

        And that’s because they are stupid. They are not educated becasause the education they received was garbage. All by design from your “trickle down” bringing republikkkans. Working as planned.