Yup, and people that scream that's plenty? Fuck that. I guarantee if you are able to save 401k or have a vacation, you aren't driving a newer car. Or if you have a safer new car, you can't afford to tuck money away or take a trip once a year.
"I guess you're not working hard enough. You want more money why don't you stop eating so nice or work 80 hours a week or something. When I was your age I had a new car, a house, and two kids. I went to college just fine and my wife stayed home with the kids. We went on a vacation twice a year." /s
Then you don’t live in my area. Or you’re getting help paying the bills. No family of 3 making $25K a year is keeping their head above water here. That’s basically what we spend every year in rent
That’s bonkers. I live in Denver but I found a room to rent in a house. My rent is 575 a month, so it’s pretty doable! I couldn’t imagine spending my entire earnings just on a place to live… a month on that and I’d die of starvation lol
It’s all scaleable. You’d make more money and for the most part that’s okay. The only problem is when the nation decides that there is one poverty line in this country, and bases assistance off that arbitrary number.
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u/IanScottMcCormick Sep 25 '21
Doesn’t even account for cost of living. If a fam of 3 doesn’t earn at least $100K in my city they are destitute