If we team up we could afford a fleet of bulldozers. Just sayin.
Half of America Makes Less Than 35k
Submitted 7 months ago by alphanerd4@lemmy.world to aboringdystopia@lemmy.world
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EdibleFriend@lemmy.world 7 months ago
dependencyinjection@discuss.tchncs.de 7 months ago
Bruh there is enough of us we could topple buildings without bulldozers. We just can’t agree on anything in a meaningful way.
EdibleFriend@lemmy.world 7 months ago
But … Killdozers :(
reddig33@lemmy.world 7 months ago
Half of America makes more than that now. Though not by much.
owenfromcanada@lemmy.world 7 months ago
It’s tough because the snopes article moves between individual and household income amounts–which are two very different things. Kinda wish articles were written more clearly, and provided contextual data regarding how many households have multiple earners.
DancingBear@midwest.social 7 months ago
Yes. If you add up mine and all five of my roommates in our one bedroom apartment we make more than 35k lol
Grilipper54@sh.itjust.works 7 months ago
This has been driving me crazy. I try to compare the median income in the twin cities and it always provides the median household income. Why is it so difficult to find indivual median income for regions.
Eheran@lemmy.world 7 months ago
If half is making less, the other half is obviously making more.
ninja@lemmy.world 7 months ago
The article found the numbers the OP image was based on.
For 2019, according to the SSA, the median net compensation for American workers was indeed less than $35,000 — it was $34,248.45, to be precise
The $35k was rounded. Less than half make more.
bitchkat@lemmy.world 7 months ago
My first job out of college paid $28k/year. Of course that was in the mid 80s. Almost 40 years later, half the country is making less than $7k more than that.
dditty@lemm.ee 7 months ago
My first teaching job out of college paid $32K/yr and that was in one of the best states for teacher salaries in the country, and this was in 2015
Filthmontane@lemmy.world 7 months ago
Because there’s not enough unions
BrokenGlepnir@lemmy.world 7 months ago
I know a few people in the 100k range. Only a couple have kids. I think that is more than that. It’s never stopped people in the past. I think a combination of education and poverty may be part of this.
cumskin_genocide@lemm.ee 7 months ago
Have you tried voting
FJT@lemmy.world 7 months ago
Nothing is stopping any of them from applying themselves and bettering their employment except their laziness and stupidity.
TronnaRaps@lemmy.ca 7 months ago
This guy is shitty, but I don’t disagree with the lazy comment. Alot of problems can be solved by not being lazy.
FJT@lemmy.world 7 months ago
And illegal immigrants get that for free! Thanks tax payers!
deania@lemmy.world 7 months ago
Illegal immigrants deserve more then 35k. Those people are getting away from the worst places imaginable with nothing to their names
The_Picard_Maneuver@lemmy.world 7 months ago
Major life experiences have been stolen from a large % of the population, all to make a handful of people richer. It’s tragic.
some_designer_dude@lemmy.world 7 months ago
On the bright-ish side, there’s an even more tragic fate waiting for those handful of people in the coming years…
The_Picard_Maneuver@lemmy.world 7 months ago
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dependencyinjection@discuss.tchncs.de 7 months ago
Which is?