No, I gotta say we are doing pretty well, but our household combined higher education time is about 20 years, and it’s not art history (sorry art history).
I do feel bad though that people are having a hard time and, while I don’t have a second house or a boat, I’m trying to give back wherever and whenever I can.
Yep. They’re boiling frogs.
We’ll be the ones eating the pets.
Yeah, shits tight and every institution is in decay. On the other hand it’s only gonna get worse until it gets better, so theres that.
…and it’s probably going to get a LOT worse.
To put things in perspective, imagine it being way, way worse in 5 years and the point you are at right now is the least struggling you’ve been through that you can remember. You might look fondly at these days, before shit hit the fan.
Try to save whatever you can.
Yeah that’s why I think its important to be a part of a community, if you can.
More than that, we have to be a worldwide community, because those who are receiving the benefits of our hard work act at that level. Left, right, democrat, republican, none matter, the strings are pulled by the same people. We are in this together, we have to see through the bullshit and help each other.
…Why help each other when we can just kill the hoarding puppeteers?! Then everyine will be able to easily help themselves!
Lol dafuq are you on about?
Everyone around me claims they are struggling, but they objectively are not.
FWIW, the income of people I’m talking about typically around 150-300K a year. They are simple angry their money doesn’t go as far as it did and they can’t take multiple vacations per year anymore.
Is it great? No, but I’m above water and not having to cut back. Couldn’t afford kids though
The trick is, if you have them you just have to afford them :/.
I’m unemployed for a entire year , it sucks and I’m sick of being unemployed
Yeah that’s mighty frightening. Last time I was in that situation, I had no dependencies and it was bad enough. Now I have a mortgage, 2 kids in college, and am wondering if ageism would let me get another job of if I had to
I am.
To answer your question, though: no. Some people are doing GREAT. It may not be a majority of people, but anyone who was rich in 2015 is now super rich. The super rich are now obscenely rich. Even a majority of the moderately well-off - e.g. people who own their houses outright or people with >3 times their annual income in investments - are doing pretty damn well. That is part of the reason that Trump, no matter how vile or incompetent, never dips below 30% approval. People will overlook all kinds of evil when their bottom line is improving.
This unfortunately, too real
I somehow continuously managed to live below my means. My wife has an indestructible career and I’m raking in now as I may not be able later. We’re well off, but buying a house in a good area would still be very lucky… but not impossible.
Yes but I have a safety net for now.
Life is about to turn to hell.
For them, right? Rally your neighbors. Make sure everybody knows how shitty this will make everything. Annoy your politicians.
Drive them out!
Everyone seems to have given up already. No one cares, no one is fighting.
I can’t do it on my own. I can file complaint after complaint after complaint but it’s just been accepted.
you could detonate a complaint instead >:3
I’ll save it as a last ditch effort, since I’d rather detonate myself with the data center than die in other ways.
Shit was damn good, but now, I’m a frog boiling in water; it’s no longer easy, and I’m house poor, but I do still own a house and two cars that are getting old enough to vote.
Job got bought up by another company, they’re horrible, but the market is so bad I can’t find a good place to advance. No cost of living increases in 6 years, regular bonuses went to zero, and people who work hard are threatened with being fired every day.
Yep. I moved to rural Japan because my company was fine with remote anywhere in Japan. Started my small farm and my life here. They assured me it wouldn’t be a barrier for advancement as well.
Now, the same company is trying to get everyone fulltime back in the office, over 4 hours each way from my house. They won’t pay the cost of even one day. I will likely lose my job. I don’t think I live through this.
Suicide is on the menu.
Don’t give up yet. We need you for the revolution.
“On your feet, General. This is no place to die!”
— T,Challa, The Black Panther, played by Chadwick Boseman (R.I.P)
My situation isn’t great, but it’s not new enough to really be “right now”.
Some people are doing just fine, but they’re not going to post as much. If you want a representative sample, you need a poll instead.
Not at the moment no, I was unemployed for around 9mo last year after layoffs but I finally found a job and am doing pretty well for myself.
I’m trying to pay off debt from my mom at the moment but decided to splurge on myself for a few months first now that I’m employed again.
Two good jobs and digging out from each of us being single parents before we got together but no, we are ok. Can’t retire or anything like that but not one bad month from homeless anymore.
I was even in a position to help a friend with a (no interest) loan when she had a very bad month, it was tight for us but not impossible, and my husband did not get mad or worried at all that I did that, so I would say we are well off?
The overall economy is made up of a lot of data points - we are a little bit worse off than we were in terms of cash flow, but wealthier because we bought a house before (well at the start of) the bubble.
2018? If we hadn’t bought then I’m not sure we could have bought in.
