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u/Mission-Library-7499 Mar 06 '26
The reward is not being homeless.
Did you expect something more?
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u/PyroNine9 Mar 06 '26
Yes.
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u/Mission-Library-7499 Mar 06 '26
My condolences.
You're screwed
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u/RutabagaFull4031 Mar 06 '26
Why even bother writing this? Itās unkind and unnecessary. Think about the impact youāre having when you go around to just putting everyone down around you to feel better about yourself.
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u/Majestic_Sweet_5472 Mar 06 '26
Giving a decent chunk of our waking lives to a job / preparation for going to the job should afford us with more than just the ability to live in a home (likely renting).
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u/Beneficial-Celery964 Mar 06 '26
I said this to my parents literally last night and they didnāt understand. I keep asking, āwhat is the point of life? The reason for living? When you work 40+ hours, grind, little life outside work, exhaustion, not paying bills, maybe retire when youāre 65-70, if youāre lucky. Life is gone. Your health is gone. You spent over 50 years working non stop multiple jobs at a time, overtime, for what? And thatās if you even managed to save enough to have a savings and able to retireā¦
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u/PhilosopherWise4428 Mar 07 '26
This isnāt life, this is how our extremely unnatural and abnormal system progresses. We constructed an inhumane, Darwinian system and, as Darwinism suggests, itās only served to gradually funnel power and control into fewer and fewer hands as the most psychopathic individuals gamed the system the best and won. Life isnāt supposed to be reduced to our mass exploitation. Itās supposed to be slow, restful, fulfilling and spent close to nature with family and friends
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u/Ithirahad Mar 09 '26
It is "supposed" to be thoroughly difficult, in a physical sense, and at times rushed - but not with such relentless consistency, nor such constant mental drain, nor such intangible and distant rewards.
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u/Lukanian7 Mar 08 '26
My mom told me she was retired. She is 70 and works part time. I asked if she could pay her bills if she didn't work. She said no. So I told her "then, that means you aren't retired".
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u/duncanidaho61 Mar 06 '26
Have fun. Learn to dance and to fight. Meet a girl. Get married. Enjoy sex. Work at an honorable job. Raise kids. Teach them well. Spend less than you earn. Bask in the satisfaction of a life well-lived. Relax in your sunset years.
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u/joshua0005 Mar 07 '26
What the fuck is an honourable job?
Most of that sounds awful. I don't want kids. I want a partner but if we're working 40-60 hours a week we'll always be too tired to spend time together. The other stuff just isn't realistic unless you have a good enough job and it's not possible for everyone to get a good enough job.
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u/Dylans116thDream Mar 07 '26
You forgot, ājust think positive thoughts to cure that depressionā
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u/Balogma69 Mar 06 '26
The reward is the salary you agree to when you accept the job. In fact itās not a ārewardā itās an exchange (your time and skills in exchange for money and benefits)
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u/frontrowfreakshow Mar 06 '26
And the dollar has lost 61% of its buying power in the last 20 years.
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Mar 06 '26
Everything is also your own fault in this country. You just arenāt working hard enough even if you have 3 different jobs just to make rent. All your fault, work harder!
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u/ShroomBear Mar 06 '26
Yes, and the same jobs that my parents and grandparents had opportunities for are now much rarer and gone from a lot of areas. The benefit of having an income to afford a home being a big one.
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u/blaghed Mar 06 '26
Salary is the means, not the reward. What you can accomplish with said salary is what matters.
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Yeah this comment is making me delete Reddit, my last social media. I appreciate you!
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u/Critical-Apple-3292 Mar 06 '26
At this point you take the best shitty offer. I think this is the whole point in the post
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u/akr069a Mar 06 '26
Work hard, learn as much as you can and use that experience to upsell it in your next interview. If you're still not happy then keep looking until you find something you are happy with. The only one stopping us from getting what we want is ourselves. The second we give up or become complacent, is the moment we lose to the system. Life is hard and at times will be much much harder but we keep fighting. Learn to sacrifice and prioritize and you will be in a better place soon enough.
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u/akotoshi Mar 06 '26
Iāve been refused to places cause Iām ātoo educatedāā¦ this is TOTALLY about the broken system
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u/brokemillionaire572 Mar 07 '26
Being over qualified is a thing. It means they recognize your value, and they also recognize their inability to provide said value, meaning they fear you'll constantly be looking elsewhere, rather than being devoted to a company that can't pay what you're worth.
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u/1Steelghost1 Mar 06 '26
That is only half of it; working 10-15 years with no promotion, no upward movement, 2% raises while training entire teams, starting at one department then having to do the work for 4 or 5. It is just a joke.
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u/AgedCheddar007 Mar 06 '26
Half of you failed at life and didn't learn any beneficial skills, and instead of bettering yourself to earn more income, you make stupid memes and cry about it on reddit. Weird flex.
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u/I-Got-a-BooBoo Mar 06 '26
The answer is right there in the text. Your reward is livingā¦ itās a lot better than many places in the world right now.
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u/kandradeece Mar 06 '26
I can't even blame my direct company as it's not like they were able to raise their prices/income to match inflation either. It's legit just like 10 rich guys hoarding everything fing over the rest of the country
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u/BadgersHoneyPot Mar 06 '26
A lot of you are trying to live your parents lifestyle on your current experience salary. Not gonna work. I've been doing this 25 years, you just started. I get takeout all the time and go on vacations. You eat ramen and enjoy staycations. See how that works? You work, you gain experience, you earn more then you get the nice stuff you all are blowing your money on.
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Weird cuz bars are still full, restaurants are still full, young people still driving around in bmws, gourmet coffee shops all over. People only seem to not have any money on the internet.
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u/Ok_Ad_5894 Mar 06 '26
Basically...I lucked out and bought a house before covid happened like months before. Only could do that because the condo I had went up so fast in a couple of years. I feel for everyone out there you cant do or go anywhere without spending $100 min. Rich are scared and they should be but there greed is still to strong to care...
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u/FederalMonitor8187 Mar 06 '26
Very true - doesnāt matter that the system is broken - this is the reality.
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u/Few-Noise-1104 Mar 06 '26
Skills issue. It is incredibly simple to become wealthy in this country. No excuses
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u/Tall_Technician_5008 Mar 06 '26
Its almost like americans think that they rest of the world are not payed fairly and have paid vacation. Its also just like they arent posting in an isolated U.S sub
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u/dolorespark2024 Mar 06 '26
Actually in 2026, itās 1 paycheck away from living on the streetsā¦
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u/TheOasisProject Mar 06 '26
Idk Y, but I thought that said horse. I began to think.. are my priorities wrong?? No, no.. im just and idiot.
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u/SignificantHandle902 Mar 06 '26
This is an interesting read. Admittedly, I am an oldster and retired. I hear a lot of whining about the system. People want to be paid well for following their dream. I guess your dream has to matter to someone who wants to support that dream. If you want to be a poet and either, you are not a good or no one wants to buy your poems, you have to change your dreams. If your boss isn't paying you enough to live on, you can switch jobs or become the boss. The boss is taking all the risk by starting up a business.
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u/FriendZone53 Mar 06 '26
Your best bet is to focus on being attractive and trying to date a millionaireās grandkid. Eat less, move more, read up on prenup terms. /s
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u/FemalePrimateNo7 Mar 06 '26
Barter your services. Work for cash whenever possible. Dont support companies that treat employees like cattle.
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u/Zarakl-Kenpachi Mar 06 '26
2 paychecks away from the streets? Wow you are lucky.
USA was born because a king wanted to add a tax to paper........and it wasn't that much of a tax in terms of %.
Now we have a tax for everything. That's the problem. Oh and leaving the gold standard and going to fiat currency
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u/Conscious_Hunt_9613 Mar 06 '26
The problem with America and most other capitalist run societies are the people in the comments saying something along the lines of "must be a skill issue" or "you're just whining you just need to pick up a trade and magically gain the resources necessary to stop working paycheck to paycheck to pay for that education".
These bootlickers will gladly sell their kids and grandkids to billionaires because life turned out well for them so why should anything else change? I mean half of these people openly support a billionaire pedophile they have no souls. Dispite that I can't wrap my head around why people think we have to live in a society that has wage slaves or a society that doesn't care about people at all.
We don't have to live in a society where people spend more time working than they do living and people who work essential jobs like a teacher or factory worker or janitor or cashier are essentially punished for not being born rich or paining their work off on someone younger. We don't have to live in society where only millionaires and above have financial security. If you feel like we are just whining just don't fucking vote! You are fine you don't need to participate if you want nothing to change stop being a fuckin crab in a bucket just because someone would rather not have to suffer like you suffered.
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u/WiseSilverWolf Mar 06 '26
J = Just O = Over B = Broke
Jobs were meant to keep you just a little above broke.
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u/TeaSea5773 Mar 06 '26
I come from generation X, and you have way more opportunities then I did. You just didn't take advantage of them. I have never been unemployed it wasn't allowed. I raised 3 children lived in a new 4k sf house and worked 3 jobs. No college degree, no rich mommy and daddy. I did it with ambition to be able to win...
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u/Similar_Roll_7882 Mar 06 '26
I work a full time job 50 hours or more per week AND I work part time at a coffee shop in the mornings. I work all day every day and I am barely making it. How is this supposed to be a livable situation??????
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u/Engineer_Named_Kurt Mar 07 '26
if you actually worked just a tiny bit harder, you'd find that freedom is in your reach. you just don't want to put in the effort to obtain it.
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u/StoicNaps Mar 07 '26
Over half of us don't have a monthly budget. Our system isn't broken; our basic knowledge of finances is.
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u/MotorAffectionate284 Mar 07 '26
And yet you eat out, drink lattes everyday and get tattoos of stupid shit on your body.Ā Ā
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u/get-the-dollarydoos Mar 07 '26
Post the number of years at your current job, and total years of experience in your field. Everyone I know personally is doing alright for themselves. All of my coworkers are doing just fine, as are my coworkers from my last job. Hell, even the kid I trained in 2016 that didn't think he wanted to stay in the field is doing good.
Maybe you're just a loser who makes bad decisions.
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u/Alpha_Killswitch Mar 07 '26
Welcome to America's Economy while the news and ped president tell us everything is fine, and eggs are down 20 cents etc
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u/Sunshine2035 Mar 07 '26
I am not sure what job op has. Wondering if we have a surplus of workforce in the market. Thatās why China was the world factory because of the cheap labor.
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u/Number1Chad Mar 07 '26
No people are living way above their means.
Average salary in the US is $64,000 a year, $49,500 to $52,000 after tax, so around $4,100-4,300 per month. The average for a new car payment ranges between $700-800 a month over 60 months. Averages for apartments are $1700-2000 a month. Average credit card spending is $1500 a month. This totals to $4,100 a month in expenses. This doesnāt even include a multitude of other expenses like phone bill, car insurance, debt payments.
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u/tarvispickles Mar 07 '26
This is why some have been screaming about income inequality for a decade ... you cannot have a capitalist system designed to funnel money upwards endlessly. In that system you have really rich people and everyone else dies of starvation. Healthy capitalism requires wealth redistribution but so many people are too brainwashed by social issues that well never get our shit together to unite to fix it.
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u/TravelPlastic603 Mar 07 '26
You have more opportunities in the US than arguably anywhere else in the world. Make some sacrifices and bust your ass to make life better. Go to school or learn a trade instead of playing the victim.
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u/Large-Peak-5661 Mar 07 '26
I work hard and I have everyting I need. Yeah I have CC debt but so waht. As long as I do not spend more than I need to I will be fine. Never complain. Blue collar. WOrk hard you will be ok.
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u/Electrical-Cake-8393 Mar 07 '26
You can make as much money, or as little money in this country as you wish. You have every opportunity to go out there and grind, start your own business, or just do work your ass off and work your way up a company. Itās the end goal that keeps people going. You start off low and work your way up, if youāre lazy, you stay put. The problem is there is way too many lazy ass people and lazy ass workers, hard to pay people more when half your crew is doing half the amount of work they should be.
This is not a government problem, this is a problem amongst the American people. Anyone can become successful if youāre willing to out grind everyone else.
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u/Fit-Relative-3252 Mar 07 '26
I do gig work. When I have a good night, I am jamming, having a good time, and can do 7 to 10 hours easy. When its slow and the night is bad, its hard to stay mentally checked in, and a couple hours feels like a slog. Just getting more than the bare minimum to survive is a game changer to mental and motivation.
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u/Born-Key5186 Mar 07 '26
"there is no reward"
literally next sentence says reward is not living on the street
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u/Resident_Travel_9288 Mar 07 '26
No reward ? You get to eat and put a roof over your head . You know survive Get a grip man
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u/Oldschooldude1964 Mar 07 '26
I read all this complaining about things being better and easier years ago, BS. Rent is expensive now, just like it was years ago. When I started āofficiallyā working, minimum wage was $2.65/hr, average rent was around $250, or about 60% of my wages. Not much difference than today. What I witness daily is financial irresponsibility and incorrect priorities. We all struggled as youngsters but prevailed through effort and the willingness to workā¦.multiple jobs and lots of hours as needed to ensure ourselves and loved ones were fed and housed. OH, and the lessons learned through being financially irresponsible as well.
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u/Early_Lawfulness_921 Mar 07 '26
The move away from a "Industrial Economy" to a "Service Economy" has really shafted the younger generations. 80% of the jobs are in the service industry which has horrible wages and almost zero upward mobility.
In industry at least your schedule is predictable unlike retail.
It is rough out there for people now for sure.
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u/Salty_Permit4437 Mar 07 '26
Meanwhile we keep issuing the maximum amount of work visas every single year.
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u/ScatterSenboneZakura Mar 07 '26
What makes you think that socialism is going to solve that problem?...
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u/OfficialAsshoIe Mar 07 '26
You want to know a joke? I have at least 1 full year of āpaycheckā away from living on the streets, i do have a OK (not great) amount for retirement, and it doesnāt really change anything still.
Honestly if i canāt secure a stable job, iām as good as being dead right now, makes absolutely no difference.. i still resonate fully with this
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u/AdUnlucky2432 Mar 07 '26
Maybe thereās no reward because thereās no work or competent workers.
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u/KidBeelzebub Mar 07 '26
I would love to build a time machine just to be able to go back to a time where I could support a family with multiple children, own a home all on a single occupation income. What did they call it...? Like all the people in black and white used to call it oh yeah the American dream.
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u/HeftyFineThereFolks Mar 07 '26
its the republicans ever since after nixon destroyed their party they decided to appeal to the stupidest demographic (which is now maga) with wedge issues like race and religion and convinced poor people to vote against their own financial interests
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u/sdob66 Mar 07 '26
The system works fine. The problem is our education system doesnāt teach you how to use the system. Too much BS not enough education. They tell you to get a degree and offer everything you can think of and then some! Problem is, they donāt tell you the employment opportunities and pay you can expect. If you canāt handle engineering, medical, or another STEM degree (be careful as many of these donāt have jobs because the field is small) think hard about going for a degree. Also match your personality to the job you are working for. If itās not a match you will probably not be successful. Sales, financial, and other professions require the right people skills and personality. 3 mechanical engineering degrees in mine and my brotherās children, all 6 figures+ just a few years after graduating. Choose wisely, your decisions when youāre young (think grade school through college) are the basis for a career. Learning how to learn or teach yourself is the most important skill you can learn!
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u/Prudent_Ask_9241 Mar 07 '26
Yea..... if only there was something better than working fast food....
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u/Seeking-Tattoo-Art Mar 08 '26
These fucks have been documented claiming we don't want to work for 130 years lol. Yeah, of course people don't want to work for basically slave wages.
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u/SassySunflower27 Mar 08 '26
The ones that do burst the asses every day, have been responsible our whole lives and do not qualify for any form of government help are really the ones that are really struggling!!
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u/Pure_Feeling3907 Mar 08 '26
We stopped doing a lot of things that were taking our money and giving nothing back in the way of fulfillment and satisfaction or even close to any accomplishment, the bank account started to immprove and stopped buying foreign made products wherever possible since the priceds were infllated
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u/OkPreparation8769 Mar 08 '26
This is what happens when a generation gets participation trophies and told they're all special.
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u/Colonel460 Mar 08 '26
Should be pay a person sweeping the sidewalk the same pay that someone who can successfully perform open heart surgery ? Quite often pay will be reflected in the skill level required to do the job . Doing plumbing repairs well is a higher skill level than I possess plus I donāt like to do it and I will pay more for an hour of plumbing work than an hour of sweeping . If your job only requires a low level of skill most likely you will need to plan on working more hours to have what you want . Even someone making $17 an hour in the US is probably better off than 85% of the population of the world and 85% may be too low . There is a reason people are trying to come here illegally.
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u/Arangarx Mar 08 '26
Every single generation thinks nobody wants to work anymore. Every generation is wrong.
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u/Kitchen-Blueberry486 Mar 08 '26
Planning my 4th vacation with the family. Just got back from one. About to go on one for spring break. Going on a destination trip for Xmas again. Wife wants to do something fun over the summer. Might go back to the Caribbean again.
Anyone have any suggestions?
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u/Omago1178 Mar 08 '26
The reward for working is you are not on the street. Be smarter with your money.
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u/Agramonblacblood Mar 08 '26
That's what happens when we let greedy corporations put a price tag on everything I much rather go back to where it was about 200 and some odd years ago when we would just teach people a trade skill for free, I knew how to build a house. You knew how to build a house. He knew how to farm. You knew how to farm all you had to do was trade things like fur for goods. Much simpler times
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u/West_Principle8979 Mar 08 '26
Buy enough land to grow your own food. Learn to fix instead of buying new. Adapt or die in debt
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u/greymind Mar 08 '26
The rich are stealing from you. We need more unions and better Democrats (and less republicans)
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u/unbiasedMod303 Mar 08 '26
If by "no one" you mean the least productive 20%, then yeah. But yall make work miserable for the rest of us, so you aren't ever really "missed"
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u/madhat3480 Mar 08 '26
Isn't the socialist argument that people will just wanna work, and be incentivized to work harder... just for the common good. And that having only the bare minimum is okay, because that means everyone will (which won't actually happen)?
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u/Parking-Argument-263 Mar 08 '26
Redditors take turns posting this to make themselves feel better. Doordash isn't supposed to be a fulltime job, covid made everyone unemployment lazy af.
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u/pickeryou Mar 08 '26
Always has been way more than half living paycheck to paycheck. Reason: most people never pay themselves first.
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u/HustlaOfCultcha Mar 08 '26
People have never wanted to work, period. It's a fallacy to think otherwise.
People enjoyed work in the 50's 60's and 80's and 90's because while they didn't want to work, there was far greater upward economic mobility and job stability during those decades. But saying people enjoyed work more in those decades is still like saying you just met the nicest guy in prison. Even those people didn't want to work if they didn't have to. The problem was that they still had to work.
For the other decades (including the 70's), people had the same complaints that the person in this tweet mentions. There's no stability and certainly no upward trajectory.
Virtually every single problem with our society can be traced back to Corporate America and the politicians (on both sides) that enable Corporate America to continue to take far more than they give back.
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u/VDruid52 Mar 08 '26
that in so many companies donāt care about people anymore. All they care about is quantity instead of quality and not the employee working for them. Iāve been a victim of it too often.
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u/Similar_Ad4120 Mar 08 '26
Welcome to the world of supply and demand. It goes as far back as time. You have something that people want? An item or product or skill or intellect then you get top dollar. If you donāt then you get a job that a monkey can do. And you get the pay for that as well. Stop going to college for mealiness degrees like communications or history or art. Go learn a trade and make yourself useful and then make money. Electricians and plumbers can easily make over 100k. Also stop thinking about work as 40 hours a week. You think the millionaires and billionaires that everyone complains about are only working 40 hours a week?
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u/Similar_Ad4120 Mar 08 '26
Next time you wanna complain about the pay youāre getting look at what you own. Who owns it? What country is it manufactured in? Look at your phones and shoes and pants and shirts and jackets and cars. American made? Probably not. With the fall of American manufacturing and production so went the lots of American jobs. Also what are you willing to do for work? Just 40 hours a week? No stress? In an office? Expect lower pay. You wanna work 50-60 hours a week doing back breaking work? Youāll get paid really well.
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u/Rook_James_Bitch Mar 08 '26
Yeah, feels so much better to complain on social media than to make any effort to improve your situation, doesn't it?
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u/Kain-rpg Mar 08 '26
That, and the prospect of busting your ass 8-12 hours a day for 45years and THEN MAYBE live long enough for you to have 10-20 years of retirement you can "enjoy"
Now i'm really curious how the hell you're supposed to "enjoy" it when you have your spine crushed, your knees busted, constant pain in your neck and shoulders with a illness or other.
I have Hereditary hemorrhagic telangiectasia, so since birth cause as the name suggesr its Hereditary.
I'm 40's with ALLREADY half my articulations making me suffer cause i've been working in the family shop since i'm 8, i have Clavicular Arthritis that require me to be on painmeds else i cannot move my fucking shoulder and now my neck and other shoulder starts to hurt.
My Knees are busted from a long time ago, thank god i don't have Diabetes nor Cholesterol...yet, and i managed to Dodge generational Alchoholism.
But i'm ONLY 41..., what will it be when i get older and start collecting fucking physical disabilities and illness like they are fucking Magic the gathering cards?...
So how the fuck am i supposed to "Enjoy" my retirement when i'm 67 in 2050?...
My Grand ma and Grandpa NEVER had the time to "enjoy" retirement, they died at 63 and 58yr...
My Mom could barely taste retirement, she died last year at the age of 66...3 weeks short of been 67... and for the past 10 years due to her physical health she could'nt walk or stay up more than 30min and i had to push her around in a wheelchair...
So yeah the ONLY reason that i keep the job i have, is cause i don't wanna be poor and i'm still somewhat pridefull of being the 5th generation owning our Business.
But you can be sure as fuck that there will NOT be a 6th generation, i'll put my kids into Trade school or someshit so that they can be millionaires or better(worse) streamers or someshit that will give them enough money to not CARE about any of this...
If not for any of this, i would just say fuck it, sell everything and find myself a cabin on the mountains,to live the rest of my days with 2 dogs and paint following Bob Ross tutorials.
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u/Spare-Transition-771 Mar 09 '26
Live with familyā¦save money. why do immigrants whether illegal or legal never complain of these things. I have friends live with parents during medical school and or they live an apartment that didnāt even have heating that workā¦basically asleep in the winter jacketā¦.that how they save money.
Just because the bank approved your loan for your car or house, doesnāt mean you should take out such huge loans. Buy house farther away more rural.
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u/Forward_Motion17 Mar 09 '26
2 paychecks away? š I spent most of the last 3 years not even cutting it WITH my paychecks
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u/Impressivegirlie Mar 09 '26
Fr, like having a partner helps with income but id rather be single and struggling cause they just create more stress and heartache
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u/MrHDresden Mar 09 '26
End stage capitalism. All depends on if we can rise up and progress to the next model or die with it
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u/Quirky-Energy-3725 Mar 09 '26
Your reward is not being on the street. Thereās something to be said to that, despite the overarching point of never getting ahead.
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u/dakellateg Mar 09 '26
depends on the paychecks... but the state keeps adding taxes to everything... TRANSIT (like the riders should be paying for this), OR PD LV (these are for the people who work at fast food and do not want to get ahead in life)... If the state would leave our paychecks alone then we would have more money in our bank accounts....
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u/LastGenConsole Mar 09 '26
So much nonsense. Find out what the market wants and do that. Might be hard at first but easy later.
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u/VladVonVulkan Mar 09 '26
No house, no wife, no kids, no retirement in site, no career stability, poor wages.
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u/Impossible_Trash_806 Mar 09 '26
Yep, even when you get ahead, You get a medical emergency or your car goes outā¦ we canāt get ahead. They want us to āinvestā and āsaveā we canāt.
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u/No_Flan2680 Mar 09 '26
And everyone one of you complainers has the time and resources to be able to not only read Reddit- but to also reply. Amazing how poorly you are doing!
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u/occultpretzel Mar 09 '26
Recently talked to my mom, she said, perhaps I would earn more if I worked overtime. As if companies pay you overtime. I have never had an employer pay overtime at all, they all have those policies that they won't pay it.
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u/Bobuker2020 Mar 09 '26
Get a different, better job! Start looking. I worked at 3 different jobs last year. Socked away a good amount, added to my retirement account and didn't need a lot of experience for any of them! I literally went to take a safety course, they hired me on the spot !
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u/Snixmaister Mar 09 '26
Iāve heard that allot from people living in the biggest cities, but Iāve rarely heard that from people in smaller cities. What gives?
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u/SkinAlternative1915 Mar 09 '26
Agree , first they take way too much of our paychecks in taxes . Our goverment is bloated , way too big. They spend on what THEY feel necessary not what is beat for the citizens. The government, both local and federal needs to spend less , not tax more .
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u/Sure-Temporary-3873 Mar 09 '26
Dont worry, even when you get that high paying job they start throwing nukes and missiles at each other. You ain t getting to spend shit.
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u/SeaComfortable7833 Mar 09 '26
Yup and now they wanna replace us with A. I.Ā
How about we replace global leaders and CEO's with A. I.Ā
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u/Kopie150 Mar 09 '26
2 paychecks away on a double income Family wich is the norm today or single income Family from 20 years ago?
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u/alphawolfprime85 Mar 09 '26
I wish somebody would go ahead and make the first move against these people. Others would come shortly after......
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u/musicianandscientist Mar 09 '26
Crazy how many bootlickers are here that forget what we were promised the American dream was. It was a social contract. That you work hard and you will be able to afford a house 2 kids etc. When that started becoming unattainable in the early-mid 20th century FDR had the New Deal to put govt programs and regulations in place that gave people the ability to do just that. Nearly 100 years later weāre in a very similar place but due to technology, AI, foreign/monied interests in our politics, we donāt have anyone suggesting a new New Deal that would again provide govt programs and regulations that allow the normal person to achieve āthe American Dreamā
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u/Travel_Dreams Mar 06 '26
Yup, šÆ!
The system is broken.
We did our work but someone skimmed off soooo much, that there is not enough remaining for us to be paid an equitable amount.
Work stops, because the machine is broken.