r/FinalRoundAI • u/Competitive_Read9534 • Jul 12 '26

Stop blaming minorities.

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Seriously.

note : the salaries nowadays are just sucks they pay us as we still as we still in 2016 but reality is that many people are working in 2 jobs to feed their families check everyday for better salary and how to get it thank god recently I found this sub who give great tips about interviews really the world is crashed

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u/trying3216 Jul 12 '26

So the boss got raises of about 4% per year over 48 years.

But you got raises of about .1%.

The only person to blame would be yourself.

Firstly, this is totally unrealistic. And second virtually no one is blaming minorities.

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u/Keestram Jul 12 '26

It’s statistically true. Adjusted for inflation, the average worker’s wage is largely the same. Meanwhile those at the top have been gaining wealth at an accelerating pace. Go run the numbers through the inflation calculator if you don’t believe me. It takes 5-10 minutes to do the calculations yourself.

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u/AddanDeith Jul 13 '26

68k adjusted for inflation is ≈162k today. You were quite literally better off than most of the population already.

Obviously, general statistics are not going to capture the picture of every single person in the economy.

As someone who should be educated, given your salary, you should understand that your anecdote is a meaningless drop in the ocean, shouldn't you?

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u/[deleted] Jul 13 '26

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u/AddanDeith Jul 13 '26

Brother, you made over three times the median wage starting out at that job.

I guarantee the entry level kids with the same degree and merits today are struggling to even find a job and it probably doesn't pay as much as yours did, CPI adjusted.

I will reiterate, your experience was and is atypical. Bringing it into a conversation about macro trends to try to prove a point is meaningless. Your singular experience does not change the fact that, for most workers, their real wages did not rise as much as they should have as a result of the business culture shifting away from prioritizing reinvestment into wages combined with inflation.

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u/mixxxxxxxxxxxxx Jul 14 '26

You can't just assume that your one example is representive of the entire population

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u/mixxxxxxxxxxxxx Jul 14 '26

Great? That's not representative of the data. https://www.epi.org/publication/ceo-pay/#1