Does simply having any job, regardless of hours worked or wages earned translate to a healthy economy for all?
Is income keeping pace with inflation?
Is personal income going down even as people rush to find work?
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I dont personally care about income. However, I care about being forced to do too much work.
Employers these days expect you to do 30 different tasks in one job, plus to work over 40 hours a week, plus to know perfectly how everything works as soon as you are given the task.
If I have to work 8 hours, plus time needed to prepare, get to work and come back, it usually amounts to 9 or 10 hours a day. Add to that 8-9 hours of sleep, and I only get like 6 hours of free time per day. Deduct from that meal time and resting from work, it really falls down to just 4 hours of free time.
Now, if I have to work 10 hours a day plus time needed to prepare, get to work and come back from work, it really ends up in me having almost no free time at all.
However, most employers expect you to work overtime.
Then I have to deduct from my sleep and sleep like 5-6 hours during working days.
Plus, you have to endure other workers, their comments and attacks.
The average worker has 90 IQ, and being forced to talk with them is mentally painful.
Their idea of life doesnt go further from boring jokes, junk food and degenerate music taste.
Plus, they actually expect you to like what they like and act like they do, as if I have some kind of obligation to do so, as if they are some kind of role-models for proper behavior.
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@Best.Korea
True. The American South had high employment during the period of high cotton. It didn't mean they could fund a Civil War.
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@Greyparrot
The cost of living is higher.
Because social and material aspiration, demands that we demand more.
$1.1 Million: Cost to Raise a Child, from Birth through College
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@Best.Korea
If you had a higher IQ or higher whatever else you would be less likely to be stuck enduring them as peers.
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@FishChaser
If you had a higher IQ or higher whatever else you would be less likely to be stuck enduring them as peers.
Well stated.
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@Greyparrot
Nope, it does not. The cost of living is absurd. Even 100k gets you nowhere in some places.
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@Dr.Franklin
Depends upon how much one chooses to waste on stuff one doesn't actually need.
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@zedvictor4
Like taxes to fund WW3 and corporate welfare?
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@Greyparrot
You're talking National spending.
I'm talking personal spending.
Though the U.S. plays a key role in World affairs....So it doesn't matter who is in control......Expect to spend big,
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@zedvictor4
Here comes zed the boomer reminding everyone about their starbucks.
Ugh, you don't get it and never will
In the US everything has been getting worse since the 80s. The 80s was the true american dream, today it's the american nightmare.
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@Dr.Franklin
Top of the morning to ya Doc.
Starbucks is just an exercise in getting gullible people to think that they are buying something of vital necessity.
Baaaaaa said the sheep.
Low earner, high earner.
Both will waste money of stuff they don't actually need.
That's their call.
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@Greyparrot
Does simply having any job, regardless of hours worked or wages earned translate to a healthy economy for all?Is income keeping pace with inflation?
Are you suggesting that political buzz terms like "job growth" and "low unemployment" often lack context and scarcely take into consideration inflation and underemployment?
How dare you disrespect the Biden Adminstration!
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@IlDiavolo
Why the 80's?
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@Dr.Franklin
Why the 80's?
I really don't know. I think I heard it in a Youtube video, something related to the economic situation at that time. I mean, the american lifestyle of the 80s were depicted in several world famous tv series, so many latinos expected to find many opportunities to improve their lives if they migrated to the US, and they did, specially mexicans.
Now the landscape is completely different, zombies walking in the streets, kids killing their mates, hookers waiting their clients in broad daylight, high criminal rates. I remember that a friend of mine used to say that in the US a maildude can leave a package in your stepdoor and nobody would even touch it, now you have to put a dog to keep a watch on your property. Jesus, what went wrong, americans?
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@IlDiavolo
The high crime rates and hookers were certainly there in the 80's
But beyond that, the 80's was the true formation of the neoliberal nightmare of an economy thanks to Reagen. So from an economic standpoint it could be reasoned that American peaked then.
And socially it has only gotten more liberal, but that has been a trend since really the beginning of the nation
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@Dr.Franklin
Hookers have always been there Doc.
And crime.
Crime and hookers.......Two inevitable components of a thriving society.
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@zedvictor4
nah
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@Greyparrot
According to the World Economic Forum, real* hourly earnings for production and non-supervisory employees in the USA were:
$23.24 in Feb., 1973
$23.24 in Mar., 2019
That is, zero growth in 46 years.
*in 2019 dollars, adjusted for inflation
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@Dr.Franklin
You know it's true Doc.