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Bored Panda Author Explains Why So Many Young People Resign From Their Jobs And His Twitter Thread Goes Viral Home Partnership Advertise Success stories Jobs About us Contact 243points User submission 4.8K 192K Social Issues11 months ago
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About 4.3 million Americans left their jobs in August. "Quits", as the Bureau of Labor Statistics calls them, are rising in almost every industry, especially in retail, food services, and hospitality.
Author Explains Why So Many Young People Resign From Their Jobs And His Twitter Thread Goes Viral
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About 4.3 million Americans left their jobs in August. "Quits", as the Bureau of Labor Statistics calls them, are rising in almost every industry, especially in retail, food services, and hospitality.
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We are living in what labor economist Lawrence Katz calls "a once-in-a-generation 'take this job and shove it' moment."
Katz says there's no perfect way of measuring what's driving it but "what we do see is a lot of people asking about getting remote work, for example, and a lot of people questioning low-wage, high-turnover situations, and employers starting to respond, but pretty slowly relative to the expectations of workers."
And while the economist thinks we still can't know if it's temporary or not, New York Times bestselling author, Kurt Eichenwald, believes it's been long in the making.
In August the number of workers who quit their job in a single month broke the all-time U S record
Image credits: supersport1104The Great Resignation is in fact great
Image credits: fightfor15 In a recent Twitter thread, Eichenwald theorized that younger generations no longer have any faith in the idea of "the American dream" because for so many, it's become too far out of reach. The term "American Dream" was coined by writer and historian James Truslow Adams in his 1391 book The Epic of America. According to Adams, it's a promise that "life should be better and richer and fuller for everyone, with opportunity for each according to ability or achievement" regardless of social class or circumstances of birth.
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But the idea of the American Dream has been around for much longer. You could probably even build a case that it's inscribed in the Declaration of Independence, which says: "We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty, and the pursuit of Happiness."
But Eichenwald claimed that Americans no longer have the inspiration of working toward a better future for themselves.
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Because there is none.
And bestselling author Kurt Eichenwald thinks it was long in the making
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Some are also saying they're drawing up policies to help workers recover from burnout, whether it is a sabbatical, closing the business for a week, or shrinking the workweek from five days to four. "Companies have to bend," recruiting consultant Abby Kohut, founder, and president of Staffing Symphony, which focuses on the pharmaceutical industry, told CNBC.
Eichenwald s thread sparked an interesting discussion
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Follow us on Flipboard.com/@boredpanda! 192Kviews Share on Facebook Rokas Laurinavičius Rokas Laurinavičius Author, BoredPanda staff Rokas is a writer at Bored Panda with a BA in Communication.
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After working for a sculptor, he fell in love with visual storytelling and enjoys covering everything from TV shows (any Sopranos fans out there?) to photography. Throughout his years in Bored Panda, over 235 million people have read the posts he's written, which is probably more than he could count to. Read more » Denis Tymulis Follow Unfollow Denis Tymulis Author, Community member Denis is a photo editor at Bored Panda.
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After getting his bachelor's degree in Multimedia and Computer Design, he tried to succeed in digital design, advertising, and branding.
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How can you sit by your pool in your beautiful garden, sip way too expensive booze knowing that you will be on your yacht tomorrow and actually think that others slaving away to make aaaaaall of this possible are lazy? Shame on you. 67 67points reply Elsie Elsie Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 11 months ago Yes I agree.
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Also the rich would never see them selves working at McDonald's or Walmart or any other job in service 26 26points reply Load More Replies... Kylli Anttila Kylli Anttila Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 11 months ago While sipping the booze also declare "I don't buy 4$ coffee!
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I save and invest!" 10 10points reply DC DC Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 11 months ago I hate to have to agree with you, but not doing so would be dishonest to a degree making me physically sick. It's worse enough in europe these days ... but I wouldn't even wanna be better off then I am now in the US!
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"The american dream is called so because ... you have to be asleep to believe it!" (George Carlin).
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He was right about this, and I bet he hated being so. 5 5points reply Daniel Marsh Daniel Marsh Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 11 months ago I recently read that an astonishing proportion of CEOs are on anti-depressants. Think of what's really going on: their bodies are telling them their work habits are unnatural, and they are jamming pennies in the fuse boxes to keep going.
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Survival means the working class isn't driven by anti-depressants (even if they need them too for various reasons -- I don't mean to join in the chorus of idiots who think attack anti-depressant usage). 2 2points reply Lauren Caswell Lauren Caswell Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 11 months ago I think honestly, at least in western countries that have affordable prescriptions (ie so poor can have them too), that some huge amount of us, rich and poor, are on antidepressants.
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And I'm not knocking them either, in my case I take them permanently to correctly a genetic problem. But I'm more meaning the way life has changed, and this feeling of never being able to attain each countries version of 'the American dream', is driving our population into depression at a high rate.
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Not to mention the impending damage coming from the global temperature rise that has yet to be dealt with, as we cantbguarantee we can stop it reaching a 2 degree increase (catastrophic), and we are already ensured a 1.something increase as a minimum. Sorry for the tangent lol 7 7points reply sofacushionfort sofacushionfort Community Member • points posts comments upvotes 11 months ago I worked in a pharmacy on Vashon Island in the 00’s. Some of the big names of Seattle’s tech giants sent their assistants for their stress-related prescriptions.
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If one was vindictive, it would have been satisfying. (I am; it was) 6 6points reply Caro Caro Caro Caro Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 11 months ago hang on .... tell me sofacushionfort.
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TELL 3 3points reply Carol Emory Carol Emory Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 11 months ago They call the poor lazy while they sip wine on their boast and planes...playing rounds of golf and going on 4 week vacations to exotic places never worried about whether or not they will have a job to come back to. Gee...guess those poor people that are putting up with all the Karen's and getting spat on by anti-maskers just have it too damn good.
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(Sarcasm) 1 1point reply Caro Caro Caro Caro Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 11 months ago Carol, it's frustrating. You ok?
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1 1point reply Carol Emory Carol Emory Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 11 months ago Fine..I just get pissed when I'm seeing essential workers being treated like crap by the privileged A**holes of this country. I call them out on it and throw their pettiness right back at them. But I can't help think of how many of these workers have no choice but to be in these sh*tty jobs putting up with the Kens and the Karens of the world.
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2 2points reply Caro Caro Caro Caro Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 11 months ago I'm sending you a hug anyway. 1 1point reply Carol Emory Carol Emory Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 11 months ago Thank you, Caro Caro! Right back at ya!
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0 0points reply Kai Kai Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 11 months ago I work in customer service and discovered having a car was too expensive. I could only afford use, but they constantly needed repairs.
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We are constantly saying we are going to move out of rough neighborhood, buy it always ends up being next year...Working 40 hours leaves me with no sense of personal fulfillment. 32 32points reply Elsie Elsie Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 11 months ago I agree with you. Without hope of a better future the present is not good.
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12 12points reply Load More Replies... Danny Meeks Danny Meeks Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 11 months ago Kai your story is sadly all too common. I don’t understand this humanity that keeps humans down and values wealth over people, animals, and the planet.
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I hope you find a way to personal fulfilment - have you considered some online qualifications? 5 5points reply butthurtAmerican butthurtAmerican Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 11 months ago You only work 40 hours a week? That's your problem right there, prole.
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Get back to work and work 2 jobs you pleb. /s 2 2points reply Harley Lee Harley Lee Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 11 months ago My top number is working 4 jobs at the same time lol.
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One a full time salary, the rest part time ‘survival money’ 2 2points reply Carol Emory Carol Emory Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 11 months ago Hey Kai, I feel you. I worked customer service and it sucks and the pay is horrible. I might suggest taking classes at a community college.
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You can go part time, take all your classes online and get help in paying for it. It's cheaper than Universities and, if you get on a good rapport with your professors, they will often recommend you for jobs once you graduate.
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I struggled for year living paycheck to paycheck. I'm now out of that hole.
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I've also had friends that started side hobbies that took off and made them more money than their regular jobs...like the accountant I knew that took bulk Legos and combined them into sets for collectors and clients that participated in competitions. She did so well, she hired her son to help and he earned enough to pay for college outright.
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0 0points reply Otter Otter Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 11 months ago (edited) He says people are now "...working just for survival...", but he doesn't mean "people", because the vast majority of the world's people work just for survival and have since work was invented... he means "middle-class people are now working just for survival".
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Anyone who has ever been able to take survival for granted and just work to attain personal goals is incredibly fortunate, and if that was taken as the norm for a while... we didn't appreciate how lucky we were.
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26 26points reply Kate Baker Kate Baker Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 11 months ago The U.S. us the wealthiest, most powerful nation. American citizens shouldn't be struggling when billionaires can afford to have a space race.
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45 45points reply Load More Replies... Otter Otter Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 11 months ago Absolutely! The erosion of middle-class lifestyles might be easier to bear if it was done in the interest of equalizing incomes and privileges...
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but the opposite is happening. 14 14points reply Thomas Thomas Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 11 months ago It is powerful only because have been trained to consume stuff they don't need and the resulting budget goes to the military. In practice, it's a modern poor country for most.
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I'm in the EU right now and I ain't coming back 0 0points reply Daniel Marsh Daniel Marsh Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 11 months ago This comment is hidden. Click here to view. Elon Musk's space race isn't a vanity project.
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It's a profitable enterprise with huge growth potential doing what the government used to have to charge taxpayers more to do. -19 -19points reply Becky Samuel Becky Samuel Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 11 months ago A growth market for who exactly? No ordinary person will *ever* be able to afford his ridiculous space jaunts.
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As far as I'm concerned anyone who can afford it should get a one-way ticket - just fire them all off the planet and ve done with the whole rotten lot of the,. 7 7points reply v v Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 11 months ago (edited) A growth market for humanity. Look at what came out of the last great space race across the spectrum of products and services.
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Everything technology driven we have today was either invented, made better or made possible because of the last space race and the technological knowledge that was held primarily by the government made its way into the civilian world. There's so much more to be learned but you and your ilk would be far happier for knowledge to regress and humanity to remain stagnant as long as you could get your equal $610 share of Jeff Bezos' fortune. Yes, that's all you'd get if he was forced to disperse his fortune equally to all U.S.
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citizens. Even if you expanded this to the top 5 wealthiest in the U.S. ($800 billion) you'd still only get $2,500 as an equal share.
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That would surely set you up for life, wouldn't it? -2 -2points reply Shay J Shay J Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 11 months ago This is idiotic.
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Bezos can't even pay and treat his employees right. He doesn't deserve the money he has simply because the ppl who bust ass for him to have it are denied fair share of it.
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2 2points reply Katchen Katchen Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 11 months ago The government still charges taxpayers for this. They hire contractors for space work: Elon Musk is a government contractor. 5 5points reply Aliquid Aliquid Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 11 months ago Historical "working class" people had a much better quality of life than people think.
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It is propaganda that tells us that "things used to be worse". The average American worker takes less vacation time than a medieval peasant 16 16points reply Kylli Anttila Kylli Anttila Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 11 months ago I'd like to offer an observation that I find interesting.
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I come from a poor southeast Asian country. Very big economic inequality, many policies ripping off the poor and middle class alike, welfare almost non-existent, and employers are free to exploit as they please. However, life in my small home town somehow remains far from that extreme.
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People wake up, spend like 30mins - 1 hour on coffee and breakfast, go to work, go home at lunch time to cook and eat and probably nap, come back to work, get off work at 5pm, pick up the kids, go home to cook and eat dinner or conveniently go to an affordable restaurant, then watch some TV or read a book or meet some friends before retreating to bed. A working class (except the ones in extreme poverty who are still a minority) or lower middle class person or family can live like this. Some have left for the American dream and swiftly came back because even though the dollars are a fortune when sent home, they just couldn't bear the pressure in the US.
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More and more people are realizing that despite everything, working just for survival is way too miserable compared to the humble life in my hometown. Large cities are a completely different story though. 16 16points reply Otter Otter Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 11 months ago I agree that a simple life is healthier for humans than the high-pressure "rat race", but there's a reason it's becoming harder to find...
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the capitalist system is against it. People who live simple, independent, balance lives neither generate profit, nor spend enough to generate profit for others.
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I've heard of corporations going to the developing world with the stated intent of getting people off the farm, where they're their own masters, and making them into factory wage slaves, because they can't be having with people not being not being part of the corporate hierarchy. 5 5points reply Abhinc Abhinc Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 11 months ago considering wealth inequality the US is one of the worst nation on earth !!
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the 3 richest american citizens own more than the bottom 50% of the population. the top 10% holds 70% of the nation's wealth.
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14 14points reply Frankenfrog Frankenfrog Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 11 months ago @Daniel - are you competing with yourself in stupidity? 0 0points reply Daniel Marsh Daniel Marsh Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 11 months ago (edited) The first statistics is sorta bogus, but the reality behind it is also pretty shocking: The actual claim is that the three wealthiest Americans have as much net income as the bottom 50% of the population, after you discount government assistance INCLUDING social security and welfare, which is to say that almost half of Americans have no net income. In fact, only 148 million out of 320 million Americans are presently working.
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Why are so few working? For tens of millions, it costs more to work than not to work.
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That's not "laziness." That's a poorly designed economic and fiscal system. -2 -2points reply Daniel Marsh Daniel Marsh Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 11 months ago This comment is hidden.
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Click here to view. The doctrine of the federal reserve had been that a low unemployment rate meant they had to "slow growth" by raising interest rates. Every time, their "soft landing" resulted in a crash.
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By 2007, adjustable-rate mortgages meant that tens of millions of homeowners were far more affected by raising rates than were corporations. Hate him if you want for ten thousand other reasons, but Trump changed the fed's mind.
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(He knew real estate was disproportionately vulnerable to economic cycles.) Instead, Trump argued that robust wage growth could keep people from exiting the workforce. Thus, after the economists' consensus was that employment had peaked in 2016, the U.S.
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continued to add 7 million more jobs despite a shrinking working-age population, until the coronavirus-induced recession. -8 -8points reply Daniel Marsh Daniel Marsh Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 11 months ago (edited) This comment is hidden. Click here to view.
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Median weekly earnings had been just about flat since 1978, despite a significant spurt during the latter Clinton years (for the same reason: unemployment rates dipped below what the federal reserve deemed natural). But they grew 11% in two and a half years under Pres. Trump as wages on the bottom end outperformed those on the high end for the first time in five decades.
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Again, hate Pres. Trump for 10,000 reasons if you will (he was undoubtedly an asshole), even dance on his grave if you want to, but his overturning the doctrine that American economic growth depended preventing working-class wage growth is monumental. Better wages means more workers.
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-9 -9points reply Load More Comments POST Caro Caro Caro Caro Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 11 months ago What really really makes me furious is hearing wealthy people calling the poor lazy. I've seen how others are struggling.
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How can you sit by your pool in your beautiful garden, sip way too expensive booze knowing that you will be on your yacht tomorrow and actually think that others slaving away to make aaaaaall of this possible are lazy? Shame on you.
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67 67points reply Elsie Elsie Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 11 months ago Yes I agree. Also the rich would never see them selves working at McDonald's or Walmart or any other job in service 26 26points reply Load More Replies...
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Kylli Anttila Kylli Anttila Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 11 months ago While sipping the booze also declare "I don't buy 4$ coffee! I save and invest!" 10 10points reply DC DC Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 11 months ago I hate to have to agree with you, but not doing so would be dishonest to a degree making me physically sick. It's worse enough in europe these days ...
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but I wouldn't even wanna be better off then I am now in the US! "The american dream is called so because ... you have to be asleep to believe it!" (George Carlin).
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He was right about this, and I bet he hated being so. 5 5points reply Daniel Marsh Daniel Marsh Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 11 months ago I recently read that an astonishing proportion of CEOs are on anti-depressants.
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Think of what's really going on: their bodies are telling them their work habits are unnatural, and they are jamming pennies in the fuse boxes to keep going. Survival means the working class isn't driven by anti-depressants (even if they need them too for various reasons -- I don't mean to join in the chorus of idiots who think attack anti-depressant usage). 2 2points reply Lauren Caswell Lauren Caswell Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 11 months ago I think honestly, at least in western countries that have affordable prescriptions (ie so poor can have them too), that some huge amount of us, rich and poor, are on antidepressants.
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And I'm not knocking them either, in my case I take them permanently to correctly a genetic problem. But I'm more meaning the way life has changed, and this feeling of never being able to attain each countries version of 'the American dream', is driving our population into depression at a high rate.
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Not to mention the impending damage coming from the global temperature rise that has yet to be dealt with, as we cantbguarantee we can stop it reaching a 2 degree increase (catastrophic), and we are already ensured a 1.something increase as a minimum. Sorry for the tangent lol 7 7points reply sofacushionfort sofacushionfort Community Member • points posts comments upvotes 11 months ago I worked in a pharmacy on Vashon Island in the 00’s.
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Some of the big names of Seattle’s tech giants sent their assistants for their stress-related prescriptions. If one was vindictive, it would have been satisfying. (I am; it was) 6 6points reply Caro Caro Caro Caro Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 11 months ago hang on ....
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tell me sofacushionfort. TELL 3 3points reply Carol Emory Carol Emory Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 11 months ago They call the poor lazy while they sip wine on their boast and planes...playing rounds of golf and going on 4 week vacations to exotic places never worried about whether or not they will have a job to come back to. Gee...guess those poor people that are putting up with all the Karen's and getting spat on by anti-maskers just have it too damn good.
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(Sarcasm) 1 1point reply Caro Caro Caro Caro Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 11 months ago Carol, it's frustrating. You ok? 1 1point reply Carol Emory Carol Emory Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 11 months ago Fine..I just get pissed when I'm seeing essential workers being treated like crap by the privileged A**holes of this country.
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I call them out on it and throw their pettiness right back at them. But I can't help think of how many of these workers have no choice but to be in these sh*tty jobs putting up with the Kens and the Karens of the world.
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2 2points reply Caro Caro Caro Caro Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 11 months ago I'm sending you a hug anyway. 1 1point reply Carol Emory Carol Emory Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 11 months ago Thank you, Caro Caro! Right back at ya!
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0 0points reply Kai Kai Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 11 months ago I work in customer service and discovered having a car was too expensive. I could only afford use, but they constantly needed repairs. We are constantly saying we are going to move out of rough neighborhood, buy it always ends up being next year...Working 40 hours leaves me with no sense of personal fulfillment.
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32 32points reply Elsie Elsie Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 11 months ago I agree with you. Without hope of a better future the present is not good.
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12 12points reply Load More Replies... Danny Meeks Danny Meeks Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 11 months ago Kai your story is sadly all too common. I don’t understand this humanity that keeps humans down and values wealth over people, animals, and the planet.
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I hope you find a way to personal fulfilment - have you considered some online qualifications? 5 5points reply butthurtAmerican butthurtAmerican Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 11 months ago You only work 40 hours a week?
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That's your problem right there, prole. Get back to work and work 2 jobs you pleb. /s 2 2points reply Harley Lee Harley Lee Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 11 months ago My top number is working 4 jobs at the same time lol.
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One a full time salary, the rest part time ‘survival money’ 2 2points reply Carol Emory Carol Emory Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 11 months ago Hey Kai, I feel you. I worked customer service and it sucks and the pay is horrible. I might suggest taking classes at a community college.
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You can go part time, take all your classes online and get help in paying for it. It's cheaper than Universities and, if you get on a good rapport with your professors, they will often recommend you for jobs once you graduate.
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I struggled for year living paycheck to paycheck. I'm now out of that hole.
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I've also had friends that started side hobbies that took off and made them more money than their regular jobs...like the accountant I knew that took bulk Legos and combined them into sets for collectors and clients that participated in competitions. She did so well, she hired her son to help and he earned enough to pay for college outright.
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0 0points reply Otter Otter Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 11 months ago (edited) He says people are now "...working just for survival...", but he doesn't mean "people", because the vast majority of the world's people work just for survival and have since work was invented... he means "middle-class people are now working just for survival". Anyone who has ever been able to take survival for granted and just work to attain personal goals is incredibly fortunate, and if that was taken as the norm for a while...
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we didn't appreciate how lucky we were. 26 26points reply Kate Baker Kate Baker Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 11 months ago The U.S. us the wealthiest, most powerful nation.
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American citizens shouldn't be struggling when billionaires can afford to have a space race. 45 45points reply Load More Replies... Otter Otter Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 11 months ago Absolutely!
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The erosion of middle-class lifestyles might be easier to bear if it was done in the interest of equalizing incomes and privileges... but the opposite is happening.
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14 14points reply Thomas Thomas Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 11 months ago It is powerful only because have been trained to consume stuff they don't need and the resulting budget goes to the military. In practice, it's a modern poor country for most. I'm in the EU right now and I ain't coming back 0 0points reply Daniel Marsh Daniel Marsh Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 11 months ago This comment is hidden.
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Click here to view. Elon Musk's space race isn't a vanity project. It's a profitable enterprise with huge growth potential doing what the government used to have to charge taxpayers more to do.
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-19 -19points reply Becky Samuel Becky Samuel Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 11 months ago A growth market for who exactly? No ordinary person will *ever* be able to afford his ridiculous space jaunts. As far as I'm concerned anyone who can afford it should get a one-way ticket - just fire them all off the planet and ve done with the whole rotten lot of the,.
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7 7points reply v v Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 11 months ago (edited) A growth market for humanity. Look at what came out of the last great space race across the spectrum of products and services.
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Everything technology driven we have today was either invented, made better or made possible because of the last space race and the technological knowledge that was held primarily by the government made its way into the civilian world. There's so much more to be learned but you and your ilk would be far happier for knowledge to regress and humanity to remain stagnant as long as you could get your equal $610 share of Jeff Bezos' fortune.
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Yes, that's all you'd get if he was forced to disperse his fortune equally to all U.S. citizens. Even if you expanded this to the top 5 wealthiest in the U.S.
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($800 billion) you'd still only get $2,500 as an equal share. That would surely set you up for life, wouldn't it? -2 -2points reply Shay J Shay J Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 11 months ago This is idiotic.
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Bezos can't even pay and treat his employees right. He doesn't deserve the money he has simply because the ppl who bust ass for him to have it are denied fair share of it. 2 2points reply Katchen Katchen Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 11 months ago The government still charges taxpayers for this.
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They hire contractors for space work: Elon Musk is a government contractor. 5 5points reply Aliquid Aliquid Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 11 months ago Historical "working class" people had a much better quality of life than people think. It is propaganda that tells us that "things used to be worse".
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The average American worker takes less vacation time than a medieval peasant 16 16points reply Kylli Anttila Kylli Anttila Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 11 months ago I'd like to offer an observation that I find interesting. I come from a poor southeast Asian country. Very big economic inequality, many policies ripping off the poor and middle class alike, welfare almost non-existent, and employers are free to exploit as they please.
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However, life in my small home town somehow remains far from that extreme. People wake up, spend like 30mins - 1 hour on coffee and breakfast, go to work, go home at lunch time to cook and eat and probably nap, come back to work, get off work at 5pm, pick up the kids, go home to cook and eat dinner or conveniently go to an affordable restaurant, then watch some TV or read a book or meet some friends before retreating to bed. A working class (except the ones in extreme poverty who are still a minority) or lower middle class person or family can live like this.
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Some have left for the American dream and swiftly came back because even though the dollars are a fortune when sent home, they just couldn't bear the pressure in the US. More and more people are realizing that despite everything, working just for survival is way too miserable compared to the humble life in my hometown. Large cities are a completely different story though.
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16 16points reply Otter Otter Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 11 months ago I agree that a simple life is healthier for humans than the high-pressure "rat race", but there's a reason it's becoming harder to find... the capitalist system is against it.
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People who live simple, independent, balance lives neither generate profit, nor spend enough to generate profit for others. I've heard of corporations going to the developing world with the stated intent of getting people off the farm, where they're their own masters, and making them into factory wage slaves, because they can't be having with people not being not being part of the corporate hierarchy. 5 5points reply Abhinc Abhinc Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 11 months ago considering wealth inequality the US is one of the worst nation on earth !!
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the 3 richest american citizens own more than the bottom 50% of the population. the top 10% holds 70% of the nation's wealth. 14 14points reply Frankenfrog Frankenfrog Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 11 months ago @Daniel - are you competing with yourself in stupidity?
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0 0points reply Daniel Marsh Daniel Marsh Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 11 months ago (edited) The first statistics is sorta bogus, but the reality behind it is also pretty shocking: The actual claim is that the three wealthiest Americans have as much net income as the bottom 50% of the population, after you discount government assistance INCLUDING social security and welfare, which is to say that almost half of Americans have no net income. In fact, only 148 million out of 320 million Americans are presently working.
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Why are so few working? For tens of millions, it costs more to work than not to work.
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That's not "laziness." That's a poorly designed economic and fiscal system. -2 -2points reply Daniel Marsh Daniel Marsh Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 11 months ago This comment is hidden. Click here to view.
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The doctrine of the federal reserve had been that a low unemployment rate meant they had to "slow growth" by raising interest rates. Every time, their "soft landing" resulted in a crash. By 2007, adjustable-rate mortgages meant that tens of millions of homeowners were far more affected by raising rates than were corporations.
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Hate him if you want for ten thousand other reasons, but Trump changed the fed's mind. (He knew real estate was disproportionately vulnerable to economic cycles.) Instead, Trump argued that robust wage growth could keep people from exiting the workforce. Thus, after the economists' consensus was that employment had peaked in 2016, the U.S.
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continued to add 7 million more jobs despite a shrinking working-age population, until the coronavirus-induced recession. -8 -8points reply Daniel Marsh Daniel Marsh Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 11 months ago (edited) This comment is hidden. Click here to view.
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Median weekly earnings had been just about flat since 1978, despite a significant spurt during the latter Clinton years (for the same reason: unemployment rates dipped below what the federal reserve deemed natural). But they grew 11% in two and a half years under Pres.
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Trump as wages on the bottom end outperformed those on the high end for the first time in five decades. Again, hate Pres.
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Trump for 10,000 reasons if you will (he was undoubtedly an asshole), even dance on his grave if you want to, but his overturning the doctrine that American economic growth depended preventing working-class wage growth is monumental. Better wages means more workers.
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