Crystal Lake Hoffy wrote:
In my neighborhood I know two families who are in the process of losing their homes. One of them is selling everything they can on Facebook, including their couch cushions. Yet, when I see them at activities, the parents and the jr. high kids they trudge around with all have the latest iPhones. To be honest, I think this is the type of people he is targeting with this statement.
I got into a discussion with an older gentlemen when I first entered the workforce after finishing my undergrad work. It was the mid-90's, and he said people are just losing ground every day. I went home and thought about it. And even back then you could see all the money people were spending that wasn't being spent in the 1960's:
Cable bills
Eating out regularly
Multiple tvs
Computers
Expensive gas and long commutes
Nearly everyone owns two cars
Houses that are much larger
Fast forward to today, and we've added things like:
High speed internet
Cell phones bills with the accompanying phone costs
Silly levels of medical costs. Just the sheer numbers of meds being consumed and the advancement in procedures
College tuition is both more expensive and widely used
Toll roads?
So while it is a shame that the middle class has stagnated and even regressed, many of the reasons are obvious. The average middle class person has more material wealth, while clearly being in a more precarious financial position. It doesn't mean we shouldn't try to solve declining social mobility and the massive wealth gap. But it's not as simple as, "things are worse today."
Fuck yeah I love me that Ayn Rand Paul Ryan shite. Epi Pen jack's up the price of a life saving drug and thats smart. Poor people get sick and its' like stop taking your kids out for a meal at McDonalds you no value adding disgusting leeches, and buy cheeper winter coats while your at it. You cant afford that used nautica shit.
Essentially what needs to happen is if you cant cut it here then you need to go. If your not adding value then your draining resources from value adding innovators so your time here is done. While learning about self reliance at the college my parents sent me to I came up with this idea to sell suicide kits to poor people so the rest of us could just get on with our value adding lives without the inconvenience of dealing with fucking leeches. Since theres so many poor fuckers I thought id jack the price up to really profit of this shit but for some reason I cant get a bite.
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