What do you think Lisa that we are all just laying around playing video games all day eating hot pockets expecting someone to support us? Cuz that’s not the case.. half the women I work with have two or three jobs and on top of it are going back for more advanced degrees because their bachelors degree is meaningless - you assholes could get by with just high school. I have a full time job, go to school full time, raise two kids, manage my husbands business and am a partner in yet another business. Everyone I know is HUSTLING in some fashion (not illegally) to try to sustain the bare minimum that your age bracket was able to maintain with one full time job for a whole family.
The only people who are entitled is you and your age group. Your age group felt entitled to tank the economy, destroy the planet and leave your kids a mess with no intention or care to help clean it up so that you could have McMansions and luxury cars.. at the expense of your descendants basic well being.
I’m not blaming my parents dingbat. I’m blaming your generation as a whole - macro, not micro. Your wealth and well being was built with HIGHER TAXES ON THE WEALTHY. You then cut those taxes as you gained wealth. Leaving no middle class left for the people who came behind you.. and now, when faced with this reality refuse to acknowledge that maybe cutting taxes on the wealthy didn’t work. Despite mountains and mountains of evidence proving this - because again, you are more worried about yourselves. If we are entitled to believe that hard work should at minimum translate to bare subsistence levels of wages then you are greedy and selfish to think your investment portfolios are more important then other peoples basic welfare.
The average American now needs to work 53 weeks to afford the $54,441 living costs of a family of four. There are 52 weeks in a year.
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