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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    1 year 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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      1 year ago

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

      • pearable@lemmy.ml
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        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.