Okay but the people living in poverty have more kids than the people making above median income.
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On another note, when the dude that makes your kids isn’t the one that writes your paychecks… I’m not saying that some women have it easier in terms of advancing their career, but when they’re family, or they have made themselves family, they have job security over the ones who didn’t. That’s just the way I see it. Then again, my resume is over two pages from trying to piece together part time jobs, and having left jobs where I was having great success in my jobs duties, but “wasn’t a good fit”. That’s code for “didn’t put out”, I guess.
And ASK CAPITALISM why they are screwing the whole world and losing freedom.
35k I assume of dollars per year? Which is roughly 2900000 roubles month. I have another question: why the fuck everything is so expensive?
It's the policies. Not enough stopping prices rising and not enough keeping the money from continuously flowing up. Taxes on large companies and the extremely rich keep going down. Politicians distract voters by making them angry about other issues so they don't realize they are voting against bringing the money back down and building the middle class back up and supporting the lower class.
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Because prices for goods and services are all relative to the amount of money circulating in an economy.
The US has been operating at a deficit for over 30 years now, in addition to ~15 years of near-0% interest rates. The amount of ’new’ money flooding in is obscene, and is largely to blame for the massive rate of inflation seen across the board.
In an ideal scenario, deficit alternating would be directed towards the lower income brackets, as those funds would circulate through the economy multiple times before winding up in the back accounts of the Uber-wealthy eventually.
Unfortunately what has been happening since the 80’s in the US (and the west more broadly), is that the vast majority this ‘new’ money is issued directly to the most wealthy portion of society, who then use it to buy up essential goods and services (eg. Housing) as an investment vehicle; lifting the prices across the board without any means for the remainder of society to be able to continue to afford necessities like shelter.
Circling back around to my first sentence, imagine that the amount of roubles in the economy doubled overnight, and all of that new wealth was given to the richest 100 oligarchs.
They would likely buy out the majority of apartments in and around Moscow, skyrocketing their value due to the increased demand, jack up rent as high as possible and squeeze every last rouble out of the general population who won’t have seen any increase in their wages.
Damn, I am sad again.
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Is this actually true? Independent, self-supporting people? Or is this skewed by all the people living with their parents still?
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Yeah but I'd also start start asking why you're still voting Trump and believing he can be anyhow beneficial to your cause, or is that the other half making >35k a year who evidently then must have subconsciously self-organized like a swarm to unanimously vote for him?
I am no from the US, I don't understand US, but probably you people vote for Trump because he promises something new
It's not new anymore. Totally get the first time through, but not this time.
True, but something tells me his base are the "talk louder and slower to the foreigner" kind of people. Or in this case: "do it again, but harder."
This can’t be right. How does anyone survive on that?
I looked around and the average salary Q4 last year was over $59k.. I don’t know what the meme used for the “half” metric, but if they used the entire population of the US that would certainly drive the average down by including people of non-working age. The average I cited probably doesn’t account for unemployment, but that’s only 3.7% so that’s not going to push the cited average much lower.
If half the working-age, non-disabled adults in this country were literally only making the meme wage or less it would be incredibly dire.
The average won't tell you the halfway point if the data isn't evenly distributed. The average of 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 500 is 50.9. The median is what you want for the halfway point of a set. This meme looks like it is a couple years out of date, most recent measured median from 2020 is 40,480. But the meme was accurate as of 2018.
9 people make 20k a year, 1 person makes 1,000,000 a year. Average salary is 118K, but 90% of people make less than 30k.
Not real numbers, but just to show that average does not mean "half of".
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From what I have seen, having a lot of roomates, eating very boring food and praying to a god you don't believe in that your car doesn't break down.
Because it's wrong
https://www.bls.gov/news.release/wkyeng.t02.htm
$1,145 a week is the median, do the math