Hey, if you want to be me in 1995, just say it, although the home was 100k.
Comment on USA: The Minimum Wage Should Be $24 per Hour Not $7.25
Melkath@kbin.social 4 months ago
Mininimum wage should be 7.26.
A 3 bed 2 bath home should be 80k.
A week of groceries should be 60 dollars.
A semester of university should be 2500 dollars.
Most jobs should not be minimum wage.
Employers should be giving profit share bonuses.
Millionaires and billionaires should be paying a higher percentage of taxes.
A massive percentage of our public trust should not be going to Israel.
bradorsomething@ttrpg.network 4 months ago
Melkath@kbin.social 4 months ago
Shit, does it make me conservative for me to want to go back to no Citizens United and reinstated Glass–Steagall? Throw Roe v Wade back in there for good measure?
All liberal accomplishments, but it would really just be regaining all we have lost in the past 25 years.
Son_of_dad@lemmy.world 4 months ago
Secondary education is for the wealthy now. All you see at universities is kids whose parents gave them a leg up so they could get in. Nobody makes it on their own anymore, no kid that age should go into debt into the $100k+ just to get an education, and most won’t be eligible unless their parents are wealthy.
Melkath@kbin.social 4 months ago
Agreed.
I started out at community College and got an internship at the state. The people I worked for at the state pressured me to transfer to university.
I lived on my own and survived off the 13 bucks an hour 20 hours a week and student loans.
Preparing for my third university semester, my student loans got rejected. They cited "you went from a Junior to a Sophomore" as the reason, didn't accept "I went from a 2 year program to a 4 year program" as an answer, and wouldn't tell me why it took them 2 semesters to come up with this rejection reason.
Never qualified for Pell or FAFSA. My parents were broke, but the house they foreclosed on a couple years later was too much equity for me to qualify for student aid.
Then the state fired me because of budget slashes (I interned for the Department of Education in the late 00s).
So I dropped out and carried the debt with no degree for a little over a decade, the principle actually rising, before I converted the debt to a consolidation loan and paid it off in 3 years.
So ya, I agree. Modern US university is a scam.
Dkarma@lemmy.world 4 months ago
Local state college tuition is around 10k a year for someone living with their parents at home.