They’re Serfs, trapped in servitude with no escape, just how their Lords like it.
29% of US households have jobs but struggle to cover basic needs: They are 'one emergency from poverty,' one expert says
Submitted 1 month ago by return2ozma@lemmy.world to aboringdystopia@lemmy.world
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obinice@lemmy.world 1 month ago
RememberTheApollo_@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Actual serfs had more free time and ability to work for themselves, but they were far more constrained to their station.
LemmyKnowsBest@lemmy.world 1 month ago
I have a job. For years I’ve been trying to save up for an air conditioner. “Maybe I’ll finally have enough saved up by this summer. No probably by winter I’ll be able to afford one.” is what I’m telling myself now and what I’ve been telling myself for years.
anyway, last summer All I could do exhausted after work everyday was lay here and sweat on a towel and drink water.
pretty sure I did that the summer before also.
return2ozma@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Can you buy it on something like Affirm?
yokonzo@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Hi I’m the 29% 👋 AMA
hanrahan@slrpnk.net 1 month ago
Voters love this so much they keep re-electing the same people.
TokenBoomer@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Me lord likes the precarious.
BoxerDevil@lemmy.world 1 month ago
That percentage seems low
bjoern_tantau@swg-empire.de 1 month ago
The other 70 % are already in poverty.
Sir_Kevin@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 month ago
Life is so much less stressful if you just embrace the poverty.
candybrie@lemmy.world 1 month ago
It doesn’t include the 11% who meet the definition of poverty. Based on the definition on the ALICE page, it’s 29% of households above the poverty line who still can’t afford the basics. It doesn’t include people with inadequate savings who are making ends meet, albeit paycheck to paycheck, but who aren’t trying to choose between rent/food/transportation and racking up credit card debt.
TexasDrunk@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Way low. A fifth of people in the US have no emergency fund at all. A third have something squirreled away but not enough to cover 3 months of expenses. That’s half the country right there that’s living on the edge of ruin.
Sanctus@lemmy.world 1 month ago
I’d save if I could. But yeah this sums it up.