if you weren't so lazy and just worked a little harder you'd have as much money as them.
It's the free market. Everyone can create wealth.
if you weren't so lazy and just worked a little harder you'd have as much money as them.
Haha! Coming from folks who make WAY more money than many of us!!
Haha 1980 for me too! I’m 1 month and 6 days shy of being a 70’s baby and NOT a millennial.Yea I'm 1980 so I say I'm a millennial when it serves me and say I'm not when it doesn't
Low six figures with the student loans I racked up to get there has managed to get me a one bedroom apartment in the valley, so.. Yay?Yes, with good education and opportunity, anyone can become successful.
And that's part of the problem. Education has become too expensive to sustain, and the pay scaling between your entry level and middle and even low upper management employees is at an obscene level. Toss in an affordable housing crisis and many local governments being crushed by the weight of Boomer pensions and you have a recipe for future disaster.
Even those who are doing well and making low 6 figures? They're two steps away from CEOs making 8 figures. This is absolutely obscene and is not sustainable.
Shouldn't that tell you something?Haha! Coming from folks who make WAY more money than many of us!!
Low six figures with the student loans I racked up to get there has managed to get me a one bedroom apartment in the valley, so.. Yay?
Low six figures with the student loans I racked up to get there has managed to get me a one bedroom apartment in the valley, so.. Yay?
I missed his post the first time, about all of us having more money than middle America.Stop you’re going to make gzus cry
My sister doesn't make nearly as much as I do, but she's educated, lives in the Midwest and went to public college. She has her own house, three kids (who are in all kinds of activities) and two cars. There's a HUGE range of what having money really means.
Oh hello there, my life.On a purely financial level, many people live in areas where they do not need to live. They could have way better lives moving to a lower cost area. For example, 2 married teachers do not need to live where an average house costs $1.6M, their professions are totally mobile.
But there are lots of people tied to jobs that are less mobile. Both my husband and I are very specialized professionals and nobody needs us in a small town. Then you also have people who depend on family for support (like watching their kids, etc) who are stuck in high cost areas.
I missed his post the first time, about all of us having more money than middle America.
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My sister doesn't make nearly as much as I do, but she's educated, lives in the Midwest and went to public college. She has her own house, three kids (who are in all kinds of activities) and two cars. There's a HUGE range of what having money really means.
yeah i'm pretty much stuck in toronto (or new york, maybe) if i want to stay with my career long-term because i work for a fintech company and we need to be physically close to the financial industry. which means owning a house and a car is completely out of the question as there's no space to park a car in my building or on the street, and even just saving up for a downpayment for a shoebox 1-br condo (which would be a major downgrade to our quality of living) is a completely unrealistic goal unless we get some sort of lucky financial windfall.
kristin and i want to have a kid eventually but there's no chance in hell we'll ever be able to have one in toronto - daycare alone costs more here per month for one kid than our rent on a nice apartment just west of downtown (our friends recently booked a daycare spot for their daughter - $2300/month). we'd also need to find a larger apartment if we had a child, which means that just to provide the basics for one kid we'd need to be making more than double what we make now, and we're already both earning almost 50% more than the average salary in toronto. i refuse to be one of those people that moves out to a subdivision in oakville and spends three hours every single day on a train. that's not the kind of life i want and i would be absolutely miserable.
so for now things are pretty great, but eventually i know a reckoning is coming. either we'll have to move away from toronto and probably back to the east coast (and i'll have to find a whole new career) if we want a kid, or we decide not to have children and live as DINKs in the city we really want to be in. i have no idea what we're going to do but unless we get really really lucky we'll likely never be able to have a family here, which really sucks because we would both love to raise a kid in the big city.
Haha! Coming from folks who make WAY more money than many of us!!
RFK: A Raging Spirit - Chris Mathews is a quite an amazing book. Shows how what was his defined "ruthlessness" was not always what it seemed/ came from a different place. How he re-revealed his empathy, and gentleness which he hid as he understood how much his father hated - after JFK's assassination.It’s not a broad generalization. Bobby Kennedy was pretty much great. The rest of them all have big asterisks.
JFK literally brought us all to the brink of nuclear annihilation, but hey don't call him shitty thats mean
I am going to vote for the Democrat in the general election. I'm also going to fight like hell in the primary against all of the Democrats except Sanders and Warren, because they all really fucking suck. No politician is good, but Sanders and Warren are the only two who seem to understand that the problems are much bigger than just Trump.
Right wing policies are the true danger, not simply Donald Trump. Joe Biden is going to allow many of the things that led us to this crisis continue unabated. That he will right a few of the wrongs of the GOP is no consolation to me. Will I vote for him? Against someone to his right, sure. But I'll sure be holding my fucking nose while I do, and to avoid that, I'm going to call him and the rest of the lot out on their terrible, terrible stances.
curtis lemay was even worse than hermann goering and we'd literally all be dead/never born today if he had gotten his way. one of the most evil people who ever lived.
Swing and a miss if you read the text, Jesus told YOU (and me) to feed the poor, not give money to the Romans to do it for them. I'm all for having the government give more of my money back to me so I can follow the Lord's command to give and serve even more than I do. Great idea for us all to give of our own time and resources to those who really need it. Nothing to do with taxes or the government.
To follow up on that as i have mentioned before, studies show that more conservatives give more to charity than liberals by a fairly wide margin. So let's all step up and give and serve out of our OWN resources, not just try to spend someone else's money. That's not compassion, that's virtue signaling