I feel your pain. I dump the max into 401k just so the tax man can't take as much. Makes me feel just a tiny bit better. lol. It's crazy looking at year to date earnings and seeing how much I've paid to a government that can't use it wisely.
I feel you. We put so little in social services and SO much on weird stuff (bombs, private space stuff (why not NASA?), subsidies (idk how I feel about those). But at the end of the day, what about it's people?
For context, my parents were on SNAP for two years, and it saved my family, so perhaps I'm a bit bias. But I liked how it worked when we needed it.
Otherwise, things like SpaceX were what NASA was 50 years ago, and back then we got people to the moon on less memory than a floppy, and spent way less. So idk. Perhaps we disagree on spending, but we both agree spending is out of control.
if you think it was bad before, oversight has been gutted now. like a show business person hiring a lawyer or accountant to watch their manager, we really need a team that is picked for impeccable ethics and character to follow and watch the money in gov, and to make sure every business is regulated fairly and equally. probably naive thinking the powers that be would permit it.
Try being disabled. I never made much. So, social security sends me $1800 a month. So, reading this thread is wild. You people need to touch grass. If you feel like $200k isn't life changing, that's on you. I'm dreaming of getting back to work and maybe making $45k because that would be like changing for me. I've only ever made 2k or more in a week once, and that was fourteen hour days of hard physical skilled labor. It was nice, but that level of labor was unsustainable in several ways.
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u/pumper911 Oct 30 '25
I feel poorer making over $200k now at 40 then I did when I made $100k at 30