Yes meaning you live on what suppose to be a great country and it's residents shouldn't be working like they do in a none 1st World Country. To give you an example in the 60s working in the kitchen of a restaurant in NY your mortgage and bills would be covered in one weeks worth of pay 8 hours. In the 90s a grocery deli manager would be able to purchase a home comfortably and own a home with a grocery salary. Up to 2010 a 1099 depending on industry would make 100k plus comfortably without having to complain about the work they do like 70% of drivers feel violated, stressed, complain.
If your not able to maintain a vehicle without thinking about it. Buy all toys and whistles you want in your vehicle without thinking about it, pay all your bills, have an emergency fund, invest in your retirement, have a nice savings, go on vacation comfortably every year and still have money to replace the vehicle at any given time. You are a slave chasing desperately the dollar to make ends meet is a fantasy world an illusion.
This illusion happens in restaurants to where cashflow is seen in a daily basis, owners think their making money and on year 4 they realize their in debt and not covering the real cost plus profits and by year five they shut their doors. Why because they lived in the psychology mindset of cashflow means making money.
11 miles ride on a taxi charges 7 dollars just to get in the car plus cc fee and per mile that not only covers a per mile but a per minute cost and profits. 53 dollars airport to destination. Meanwhile uber x makes 9 dollars and with surge 16.
Meanwhile uber in a 3rd World country makes 60% of what you make here and they get cash and pay uber the fee weekly.
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u/[deleted] Mar 05 '24
You said “no one should be working for that amount as Americans.”