0% of Americans are living paycheck to paycheck
12-29-2018, 07:08 PM
Quote: (12-29-2018 06:59 PM)Thot Leader Wrote:
Quote: (12-29-2018 06:32 PM)NoMoreTO Wrote:
Recently visiting friends in Canada, I was amazed at how much parents will spend on their kids high end sports equipment (hockey), who don't actually own their own home yet. The status of the kids is put above the wealth of the family. These are probably the same people who then can't come up with $400. The scary part is these aren't RVF single guys, these are families.
I'm no longer very close with my friends who wound up settling down and raising kids, so I have no idea how they are doing financially. But from what I see on their social media pages they seem to live it up (big houses, nice cars, vacations, sports/hobbies for their kids, etc.). In other words, they're living the way Millennials are known to, which is seemingly beyond their means. If these are tough times for Canadians, you'd never know it from how they live.
Quote: (12-29-2018 06:42 PM)Caduceus Wrote:
Putting women into the workforce was the way companies have essentially stagnated salaries and spending power onto 1970s/1980s levels.
And yet economists act like it's some huge fucking mystery as to why wages have stagnated since that time. Seriously, as if we can't figure it out. I think this may be one of the main pillars of the feminist lie.
Key word bolded. Any "economist" who isn't completely willfully ignorant of societal changes that the West has undergone in the 20th and 21st centuries knows that's exactly why wages have stagnated.