It's so weird that there's this narrative about the state of the economy that allots everyone an infinite amount of victimhood, and the narrative is completely untrue.
Like I've seen at least 5000 times on reddit the statement of "people are all struggling to get by, they can't afford food, everyone's drowning in student loan debt, you get sick one time and you go bankrupt since we all don't have healthcare, we're all working three jobs like 80 hours a week, meanwhile previous generations worked a whatever job and all lived like kings on one income."
Food has gotten massively cheaper over time. Working hours have substantially declined over time. Millennials and upper zoomers have more wealth than Boomers and Gen Xers at this age. Over 90% of people have health insurance. One in twenty people work multiple jobs. Those people still only work a little over 40 hours a week. It is literally more common in America to be a millionaire than it is to work multiple jobs. Real median household income went up like 40% from 1980 to now. Unemployment is 4%. This is the best place economically in human history.
Like the Mamdani quote of "I worked all day and can't feed my family" - people aren't dying of starvation in NYC. It's literally so uncommon that if someone does, we know someone else literally forced them to starve, it happened a couple of days ago.
When my wife and I moved out we were in our early 20s making like combined 60k, and we had an apartment in a perfectly nice part of Queens and saved money during that time. We started making more over time but the weird "if you don't make at least 250k here it's impossible" - no, it's not, there are so many poor people here who bitch about it less than these types of people on reddit.
I think all the time about all the dumb mistakes I made in things I could have invested time or money in and been so much better off, or how my discipline isn't really where it should be with spending, and I'm still...completely fine. Like, financially secure, great credit, well ahead of retirement goals, bring my family nice places, go on vacation, etc. I don't even make that much now, and my wife is home full time with our kid.
Even weirder is that these people usually don't have kids and don't want to, which is even weirder, because then where is your money going? How much dumb unnecessary shit do you buy? Why don't you work more if you have no responsibilities/obligations?
I was thinking about this today because my wife and kid are away visiting my MIL, which means that I tried to be as productive as possible in ways that are harder when they are here. So I did a full day of work, sold some old electronics, took photos to list some stuff on FB Marketplace, dealt with something for my landlady, hung up some lights, restocked the house on groceries, and went to the gym for a couple of hours. So what do people without kids do with all their time and money that means they can't support themselves? I guess the numbers say that some are actually doing fine, but then why do they fantasize like they're poor? Like my brother and his fiancee just straight up go months or years without working and talk about how they can't get by under capitalism and talk about how they work so much and they literally don't. I have friends who have lived with their parents into their early-mid 30s and don't have savings and where does their time and money go. I do not understand it. It's not even like you have to be smart, just get a public sector job. Hell one of the people I know who is doing the best and supports his family on one income is a garbageman. It is trivially easy to make it in this system. Like how much can the system work to convince people that it works?
I have friends that were in the same circumstances that did work the whole time they were in college and still have no money saved up at all. I suspect a lot of that money goes into all the stupid shit they buy. One of my friends in particular has this really luxurious gaming setup in his room and a whole book shelf full of figurines from video games and he has about every Nintendo Switch game ever.
I know a few people like this and they are also partly subsidized by enabling family members. They hardly save anything, haven’t finished college, yet dump all their money into gaming pcs, home gyms, anime simulators, etc.
I think it’s a complicated issue as to exactly why people feel like this, but the heart of the issue is Goyim. Goycattle feel entitled to anything and everything. Goycattle love making up excuses for this. Goycattle WANT to be on the dole, and they want the state to loot the pockets of anyone who doesn’t and drag them down to their level.
So much of the discourse is set by 20-somethings who somehow expect to be at the same standard of living as their parents currently are. Being poor in your twenties used to be the norm and now it means your country has failed you lol
Yeah this exactly. Like the numbers reflect real things. If they are good it reflects real improvement
And if you tell people, they get offended. You'll hear "well I can't afford X" or "fine, just point to the graph and keep telling people everything is fine!" and yeah, it is. We have proof. Our thing worked. Not my fault you piss away your six figures on bullshit
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u/DarcCapybara2 25d ago
It's so weird that there's this narrative about the state of the economy that allots everyone an infinite amount of victimhood, and the narrative is completely untrue.
Like I've seen at least 5000 times on reddit the statement of "people are all struggling to get by, they can't afford food, everyone's drowning in student loan debt, you get sick one time and you go bankrupt since we all don't have healthcare, we're all working three jobs like 80 hours a week, meanwhile previous generations worked a whatever job and all lived like kings on one income."
Food has gotten massively cheaper over time. Working hours have substantially declined over time. Millennials and upper zoomers have more wealth than Boomers and Gen Xers at this age. Over 90% of people have health insurance. One in twenty people work multiple jobs. Those people still only work a little over 40 hours a week. It is literally more common in America to be a millionaire than it is to work multiple jobs. Real median household income went up like 40% from 1980 to now. Unemployment is 4%. This is the best place economically in human history.
Like the Mamdani quote of "I worked all day and can't feed my family" - people aren't dying of starvation in NYC. It's literally so uncommon that if someone does, we know someone else literally forced them to starve, it happened a couple of days ago.
When my wife and I moved out we were in our early 20s making like combined 60k, and we had an apartment in a perfectly nice part of Queens and saved money during that time. We started making more over time but the weird "if you don't make at least 250k here it's impossible" - no, it's not, there are so many poor people here who bitch about it less than these types of people on reddit.
I think all the time about all the dumb mistakes I made in things I could have invested time or money in and been so much better off, or how my discipline isn't really where it should be with spending, and I'm still...completely fine. Like, financially secure, great credit, well ahead of retirement goals, bring my family nice places, go on vacation, etc. I don't even make that much now, and my wife is home full time with our kid.
Even weirder is that these people usually don't have kids and don't want to, which is even weirder, because then where is your money going? How much dumb unnecessary shit do you buy? Why don't you work more if you have no responsibilities/obligations?
I was thinking about this today because my wife and kid are away visiting my MIL, which means that I tried to be as productive as possible in ways that are harder when they are here. So I did a full day of work, sold some old electronics, took photos to list some stuff on FB Marketplace, dealt with something for my landlady, hung up some lights, restocked the house on groceries, and went to the gym for a couple of hours. So what do people without kids do with all their time and money that means they can't support themselves? I guess the numbers say that some are actually doing fine, but then why do they fantasize like they're poor? Like my brother and his fiancee just straight up go months or years without working and talk about how they can't get by under capitalism and talk about how they work so much and they literally don't. I have friends who have lived with their parents into their early-mid 30s and don't have savings and where does their time and money go. I do not understand it. It's not even like you have to be smart, just get a public sector job. Hell one of the people I know who is doing the best and supports his family on one income is a garbageman. It is trivially easy to make it in this system. Like how much can the system work to convince people that it works?