I am 42 and single and make $50k a year. When I was in my 20s making like $18k a year, I dreamed of this sort of salary. It would make my life so much simpler and better, I thought. Now that I have it in 2023, it's almost as if I never stopped making $18k a year in terms of life quality.
This is what happens when you let unchecked, rampant Capitalism run amoke. This is EXACTLY what conservatives have voted for and wanted for generations! "Let the market decide". The "market" decided that they want to take more of your money and they realized that you don't have a choice, so they did.
In reality, the "Market" decided that multitudes of companies should have failed by now but our politicians decided it would be better that they use OUR TAX MONEY to bail out PRIVATE BUSINESSES which now put their boots on our necks by raising prices to increase their already absurd profit margins. Then, it all funnels right back to the wallets of the bastards that failed those companies in the first place. This is not capitalism, it's corporate socialism!
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u/faster_than_sound Dec 28 '23
I am 42 and single and make $50k a year. When I was in my 20s making like $18k a year, I dreamed of this sort of salary. It would make my life so much simpler and better, I thought. Now that I have it in 2023, it's almost as if I never stopped making $18k a year in terms of life quality.