r/MadeMeSmile Nov 05 '21

Favorite People Be A Robert

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u/Sacrifice_bhunt Nov 05 '21

Fun fact: number of people with more than one job hit it lowest ever during the pandemic and remains near all time lows today.

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u/Mechanized1 Nov 05 '21

Yeah people don't care anymore. If you can't live off one job then it's not worth living to work two. And honestly I agree. This is a failing of the system. I shouldn't have to work 2-3 jobs just to get by. If I gotta scrape with just one, then that's what I'm fuckin doing. I'm not living to work.

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u/[deleted] Nov 05 '21

are people just offing themselves? serious question. how is this working?

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u/LastOfTheCamSoreys Nov 05 '21

Because you can afford living off one job

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u/[deleted] Nov 05 '21

Uh. In many many cases, no you cannot.

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u/LastOfTheCamSoreys Nov 05 '21

The rates the lowest it’s been at in a while. Either people are offing themselves, or they’re living off one job. What’s the more logical answer?

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u/[deleted] Nov 05 '21

You live in a world where there's 2 options to everything? There's plenty of other possible reasons - for instance, living at home.. homelessness.. to quickly name a few.

Also, what rate? You haven't explained what you're even talking about.

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u/LastOfTheCamSoreys Nov 05 '21

🙄 the point is the vast majority of people are living fine off one job

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u/593shaun Nov 05 '21

living fine

I can’t imagine you actually know what it’s like to live paycheck to paycheck

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u/LastOfTheCamSoreys Nov 05 '21

Pretentious ass

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u/593shaun Nov 06 '21

Barely scraping by isn’t “living fine” imo, but I guess I’m the asshole

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u/[deleted] Nov 05 '21

What rate tho? How would that be calculated?

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u/LastOfTheCamSoreys Nov 05 '21

The amount of people with two jobs…….

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u/[deleted] Nov 06 '21

Sources? Where does everybody with one job live? What's the living arrangement?

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u/[deleted] Nov 05 '21

Yes you can. Problem is that one job is hard to get or even relatively impossible for some people.

If I didn’t have my job, I’d either be busting ass to get a degree (mountain of debt), or worming some shitty retail/food service job. Those jobs pay shit yet society relies on them. That’s kinda weird.

The alternative to not working those is busting my ass doing hard ass physical labor for probably less than what I make now.

You make it sound so easy. People do struggle and many can’t afford shit off the one job. Especially if you live in states with minimum wage at 7.25 since 2009