InevitableSwing [none/use name]@hexbear.net to chapotraphouse@hexbear.netEnglish · 9 months agoWhat does it take to be "middle class" in America today?hexbear.netimagemessage-square52fedilinkarrow-up1106arrow-down10file-text
arrow-up1106arrow-down1imageWhat does it take to be "middle class" in America today?hexbear.netInevitableSwing [none/use name]@hexbear.net to chapotraphouse@hexbear.netEnglish · 9 months agomessage-square52fedilinkfile-text
archive.today • How Americans define the middle-class and why they can’t reach it - The Washington Post
minus-squareCyborgMarx [any, any]@hexbear.netlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up14·9 months agoThey are, I lost 300 dollars last week from my “retirement savings” lmao
minus-squareElon_Musk [none/use name]@hexbear.netlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up10·9 months agoYea, but real talk: barring the collapse of the US empire, you will make money in the long run.
minus-squareaaaaaaadjsf [he/him, comrade/them]@hexbear.netlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up7·9 months agoThat’s some clown world type shit.
minus-squareCyborgMarx [any, any]@hexbear.netlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up6·9 months agoAin’t that the truth
minus-squareaaaaaaadjsf [he/him, comrade/them]@hexbear.netlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up7·9 months agoWhat happened to pensions? Did Reagan mess that up too?
minus-squareGalaxyBrain [they/them]@hexbear.netlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up8·9 months agoYes, indirectly but yes.
They are, I lost 300 dollars last week from my “retirement savings” lmao
Yea, but real talk: barring the collapse of the US empire, you will make money in the long run.
That’s some clown world type shit.
Ain’t that the truth
What happened to pensions? Did Reagan mess that up too?
Yes, indirectly but yes.