105 points

Major life experiences have been stolen from a large % of the population, all to make a handful of people richer. It’s tragic.

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38 points

On the bright-ish side, there’s an even more tragic fate waiting for those handful of people in the coming years…

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41 points

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13 points

We’d only have to eat one billionaire and the rest would fall in line

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14 points

Doesn’t matter. Billionaires are food. Gotta eat them all

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8 points

Which is?

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2 points

Still an optimist I see

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1 point

I would like to point that bunch of people tried to overthrow the US Government on January 6, 2020 cause they were angry.

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2 points

What does this mean?

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4 points

Violent revolution is inevitable, if not imminent.

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51 points

If we team up we could afford a fleet of bulldozers. Just sayin.

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28 points

Bruh there is enough of us we could topple buildings without bulldozers. We just can’t agree on anything in a meaningful way.

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25 points

But … Killdozers :(

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-1 points

That killdozer guy was a huge jerk, independent of his attempt to kill people and level the town.

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23 points

Half of America makes more than that now. Though not by much.

https://www.snopes.com/news/2023/05/17/half-americans-make-less-35000/

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44 points

It’s tough because the snopes article moves between individual and household income amounts–which are two very different things. Kinda wish articles were written more clearly, and provided contextual data regarding how many households have multiple earners.

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28 points

Yes. If you add up mine and all five of my roommates in our one bedroom apartment we make more than 35k lol

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And yet you still complain. God damn millennials. Back in my day I worked hard and made 600 bajillion dollars just by moxie. You just need a nice suit and a firm handshake and you’ll easily find a better job

EDIT: also, living with other people is communism

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7 points

The landlord: and I took that personally

The rent: goes even higher for bullshit reasons

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3 points

This has been driving me crazy. I try to compare the median income in the twin cities and it always provides the median household income. Why is it so difficult to find indivual median income for regions.

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15 points

If half is making less, the other half is obviously making more.

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10 points

Big if true.

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4 points

Large if factual

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5 points

The article found the numbers the OP image was based on.

For 2019, according to the SSA, the median net compensation for American workers was indeed less than $35,000 — it was $34,248.45, to be precise

The $35k was rounded. Less than half make more.

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Come on, it can’t be half and half. Won’t somebody think about the poor bastards making EXACTLY 35k?

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2 points

True dat

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15 points

The latest (2022) “median net compensation” from SSA is $40,847.18

https://www.ssa.gov/oact/cola/central.html

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1 point

Ah there’s the evidence

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20 points

Ugh, I’m sick and tired of these whiny employees not thinking about the real hardworking heroes of America. Shareholders.

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10 points

My first job out of college paid $28k/year. Of course that was in the mid 80s. Almost 40 years later, half the country is making less than $7k more than that.

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My first teaching job out of college paid $32K/yr and that was in one of the best states for teacher salaries in the country, and this was in 2015

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