I'm tired of paying so much to exist when I am not even living

100k a year is the new 50k a year.

What are the political implications of everything being shitty post covid? What happened, was it some mass ritual? I feel like the world isn't living anymore we are just existing waiting for it all to end. Life sucks.

where are you making 100k/yr? the avg salary in the US is 66k

I am sure you will place no blame on the government and corporations

I want to quit my job, cash in my 401k, sell my house and fuck off to Thailand or something

I can't even get to 40k. I'd probably just rope myself, but my family would be devastated.

Could always sell everything and buy a sailboat just sailing around the tropics. Might even be based

It was over the day FDR devalued the dollar to pay for socialism. The dollar is now a debt based Ponzi scheme which will impoverish us until it hyper inflates to 0.

just become a full time criminal with an alibi and rock that shit.

get a life insurance that covers suicide so they get some money

Won’t be long before anon runs out of money and dies from starvation on his boat.

I hate posts like these.

You earn $100k usd each year and you want me to feel sorry for you? SHUT THE FUCK UP

Everything was just as shit before covid though so I'm not really sure what you mean by that

leaf on america thread

Get out retard this doesn't concern you.

they'd get over it and soon they'd only remember you at Christmas and after a while not even then, before long no one would even remember you'd been here at all.

What's the median salary?

I have no idea how people go through life working 9-5, I'm only 32 and I already can't take it anymore. Waking up every morning, driving to work, being trapped there for 8-10 hours, driving home, forcing yourself to eat, then going to sleep to do it all over again the next day. You have no time for friends and family and no time for yourself, because what little free time you have is used for preparing to go back to work. It's such an awful soul sucking way to live, I can't stand it.

Anon, stop paying, just go underground and live off grid, problem solved

100k a year is the new 50k a year.

Try 20-25k

factor in cost of owning a home, ya, i believe it. i will forever continue to pay the rent jew for the next 40 years alive. i hope i dont live past 50.

Seriously. I could get fat on 25k a month if I didn't care about my health and fitness.

50k is 4k a month, I can rent an apartment here for 700/mo and a 3bd house for about 1k/mo.

You guys have jobs? kek

its almost to the tipping point, where i work all day and have no life just to pay bills and afford to work. life is pointless and praying doesnt help. meanwhile some people have life on easy mode with money. life is not worth living if you have to work.

Damn, thanks a lot Anon Babble
Buncha' pricks.

Are you white? Thailand is horrible. Pick a different place.

anywhere is better than this sinking shithole.

Agreed. I hit the grocery stores today and felt like I went to Africa.

yep, i work a STEM career, and i can only afford walmart groceries sadly full of niggers, mudslimes and spics.

if you're not making $300k combined you're having to pinch pennies, use coupons and search apps for the cheapest gas around before you fill up
Its hard out here for a pimp

I don't blame you for wanting to leave. I would if I didn't have family here.

The powers that be have a new system that has been in the development for decades now, ready to be rolled out in the coming years. It will operate in parallel starting sometime this year and by the next decade it will be fully operational as the Agenda 2030 goals are slowly being implemented.
There will be no collapse, no violence, no uprising, no world war, no revolution, no killing of jews or politicians or other such fantasies. Instead there will be law & order, compliance and total surveillance until the very end. AI will be at the center of it all.

The Great Reset is inevitable.

move nigger
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Here's a more detailed look at some top contenders:
Scottsdale, Arizona:
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Austin, Texas:
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Austin is another hot spot for job seekers, with a thriving tech scene and a strong economy. It's known for its high job growth rate and relatively low unemployment rate, according to WalletHub.
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It's 47,000, but that's including part-time positions. If you count only full-time positions, it's 66,000

imagine thinking moving will save you from a life of 9-5 misery in this shithole country.

learn wisdom from the local homeless join them and support their cause

Thanks for the no effort AI copy paste

50k is 4k a month, I can rent an apartment here for 700/mo and a 3bd house for about 1k/mo

Where? Even the nigger infested parts of Texas or the bumfuck nowhere 40 minutes from the nearest "town"(a gas station and a post office) they want 1100 a month for fucking loft or "studio" apartments.

If you're a millennial (most people here are), $100k is only 75th percentile. One in four people in their mid-thirties make at least $100k.

$200k is the new "six figures," but it's still less buying power than $100k had just over a decade ago.

I know what you mean, anon. And try having a kid nowadays. Children are HELLA expensive. I'm paying over 300 dollars a week for my kid's preschool. Not to mention her life insurance and college.

I capped my deductible ($12k) having a kid. The biggest hospital bill, AFTER INSURANCE, was $9,500.

The problem isn't just devaluation of the dollar. It's that over half this country ride for free (less than 50% of Americans pay Federal income tax now).

The problem isn't just devaluation of the dollar. It's that over half this country ride for free (less than 50% of Americans pay Federal income tax now).

They have to endlessly devalue the dollar to pay for the gibs, anon.

hes full of fucking shit. im paying 2k a month for a POS townhose on a SLAB in BUMFUCK MIDDLE AMERICA.

There is no point to work anymore if you make less than 100k a year. I will never own a home working full time.

1970

Average yearly wage: $9,870

Average house price: $17,000

House cost about 1.72 times your annual (single income) salary.

2024

Average US yearly wage: $44,490

Average house price: $412k

House cost about 10 times your annual (single income) salary.

then factor in increased taxes, insurance, car cost, food prices, utilities, education, etc

Could you imagine how fucking easy life would be if you were able to buy a home in CASH after 2 years of savings?

All my friends' parents had multiple homes or lake houses back in the day. They weren't rich. Just normal middle class folk who "are doing well for themselves", as they'd say.
Lake houses with boats, fully furnished with nice old furniture. I don't know where you find nice furniture anymore. It's not something they make now I guess.
I'd stop at the neighbors' and there'd be some guy sanding his 28' sailboat getting it ready for a paint job. Some dude who didn't have to work that day apparently. I can't even imagine myself having free time to sand a fucking boat off on some lake property in Michigan. Yet the boomers did it.
I remember going to my dad's buddy's house on the river that he supervised the building for himself (who has the time and money for this?) and sitting in his project car (an old VW van he was refurbishing). His son had a 2x86 computer that he'd play text-based adventures on, or play simple games on with 5 1/2 floppies, and he had the Robbie the robot for nintendo and a bunch of accessories and stuff, and his mom didn't work. They just had this lovely home with a great big fireplace that spanned two floors and a kitchen that overlooked the river and looked beautiful and cozy on a cold winter day.
He was a mailman. A MAILMAN.
His son had Space Camp pictures on the wall, and his daughter had a CD player like two fucking years before I ever saw one in the wild again.
And I'd go visit other friends and their dads would buy them waverunners for their birthdays, and everyone was cozy and perfect.
I don't know what happened. This was something I personally witnessed. Everyone around me had a second house. And the houses they had were fucking NICE, and everyone's dad was just kinda a dude who maybe worked at the local car dealership, or was a foreman at the factory.
Now I can barely feed my fucking family while paying a mortgage and insurance costs.
I'd immediately sell any second home because I don't even have time to go to visit a friend.

How do you spend so much money? I used to live on 2,400 a year for over a decade. How is it even possible you are so financially irresponsible that 50k isn’t enough for you. Do you have a serious drug problem or do you gamble?

Reminder of how easy boomers had it:

In 1971, the minimum wage was $1.60 and one ounce of gold is $40.80.
That's 0.0392156862745098 ounces of gold for one hour of minimum wage work.
If you jumped forward to today, you'd sell that same amount of gold for $87.36.
Yes, that literally means boomers in 1971 mopped floors for $90/hr equivalent purchasing power in today's money.

On top higher quality women, less non-Whites, less surveillance state, less taxes, easier to open business, cheap education, etc.

Did you live in a tent or a tree house somewhere with your $200/month total?

I think Anon meant you need $100k/yr to have the same buying power, but the time frame matters in this context. For example, if a product cost a dollar in 2000, and now it is $3, then in that time frame $150k would be the same as $50k in 2000.

Capitalism is a jewish scam which runs on perpetual geometric expansion of the fiat currency supply and inevitably periodically fails through either hyperinflation or massive depression and cancellation of large swaths of the fiat currency supply, where the working class have their fiat savings cancelled in bank "failures" or "bail-ins", like in the Cyprus banking crisis.
Capitalism cannot afford to purchase its own aggregate internal production at a price which it is profitable to produce that output at, unless the money needed to constitute the profits is continually added to the system, such as by creating fiat currency (or more of it than is already in existence) or allowing counterfeiting or debasing of sound money such as silver coins, such as by reducing the purity or the weight of the coins.
However, the fiat creation needs to be continuous to enable continued capitalist production and the rate at which new fiat is created needs to accelerate (the growth needs to be geometric) or the rate of expansion of the fiat currency supply gradually approaches 0% of the already existing amount over time, as the supply grows, and so does the average possible rate of profit. Expanding the fiat supply from $10 trillion to $11 trillion within a year is a yearly growth of 10% but expanding it further, from $11 trillion to $12 trillion in the subsequent year is only a growth of 9.(09)%. For the fiat supply to grow another 10% in the second year, it needs to grow from $11 trillion to $12.1 trillion instead of just $12 trillion.
GDP is not economic activity but the estimated and inferred rate of spending of fiat per year.
Inflation, including due to scarcity - which forces people to spend their fiat savings into circulation, inflates the GDP. Deflation, including due to abundance, contracts the GDP.
Fiat currency is not wealth but merely claims on wealth.
Wealth is what you spend fiat currency on, not fiat currency itself.
Capitalism is not a closed loop or system.

Further increasing the pressure to print more and ever faster is the propensity of a large part of the population and also some corporations and businesses to NOT spend all the fiat currency they receive as wages, dividends, rents, royalties or payments for goods sold or services rendered as soon as they receive said fiat currency. And instead electing to sit on part of their income as fiat currency savings in a bank. Which parks that fiat currency out of circulation, at least for a while, and thus contracts the circulating supply of fiat currency by expanding the parked supply of fiat currency. Which, in turn, makes it necessary for new fiat currency to be created and injected into circulation (by giving it to people and businesses who don't have fiat currency they would nevertheless like to spend and are willing to borrow it from a bank in order to spend it) to replace, in circulation, the fiat currency which has been parked, out of circulation, by people and business who keep at least part of their savings as fiat currency in a bank.
Yet another intrinsic, fundamental, systemic problem of the capitalist model is that fiat currency flows within it are uneven and asymmetric. For example, people pay more to businesses as payment for their goods or services than people receive back from businesses as wages, dividends, rent or royalties. This is because ALL businesses have at least expenses towards other businesses, such as suppliers and subcontractors, utilities companies. This means that people, as a whole and as a class of economic agent, pay more, on average, to businesses, as a whole and as a class of economic agent, than businesses pay back to people as wages, dividends, rent or royalties. The difference has to be perpetually made up from and through consumer credit. Which is people constantly borrowing money to make up the shortfall/discrepancy between what they need to pay for goods and services they need or want and what they themselves are paid.

There are 2 types of fiat currency:
1. Physical cash and coins printed, minted or coined by the central banks (or for them by private businesses under exclusivity contracts with the central banks).
2. Money of account. This is fictional cash and coins which don't exist physically and are just promises to pay cash or coins, in the same nominal amount, to the holder, on demand. They exist on the ledgers of the banking system.
Banks have been granted the right to "legally" deceive the entirety of society that the second type of fiat currency is the same as the first or that it doesn't exist, with the implication being that the second type of fiat currency is actually the first type when it really isn't. The proof that these two are not the same type of fiat currency, and also the proof that there is *A LOT* more of the second type in existence than the first, is that banks can run out of the first type of fiat currency to honour "withdrawal" requests against the second type, by depositors who think they're the same thing, and to avoid that happening, there are laws on the books in every country to force private individuals and businesses to store their physical fiat currency notes and coins, above a meagre amount, in banks and thus only use the second type of fiat currency for their larger transactions. In addition to this, convenience and online purchases ensure that most people prefer the second type of fiat currency.
While only central banks control the creation and issuance into circulation in the economy of the first type of fiat currency, any non-central bank anywhere can issue more of the second type of fiat currency into circulation. They do this by pretending to "lend" the first type of fiat currency to willing borrowers. But in actual fact, they just create more of the second type of fiat currency when they approve the "loan" (which is actually credit and not a loan) and issue it to the borrower. Or a credit card holder pays for something with it.

When you go to the bank or the ATM to withdraw cash, you're actually asking to have your fictional cash and coins, which only exist as digits on the digital ledger of your bank, exchanged for physical cash and coins.
Regardless of your opinion on central banks, all non-central banking is legalised fraud because non-central banks issue (create and introduce into circulation) fictional cash and coins by pretending to "lend" it to willing borrowers, who then spend it into the economy, and lying to everyone in society that that fictional cash and coins actually physically exists or is backed by existing physical cash and coins in the same actual amount. Not the case. And this is all somehow ((("legal"))) because jews lying to non-jews and deceiving them and robbing them is perfectly fine as far as jews are concerned.
However, although most banks, in most places, will allow you to exchange your fictional fiat currency notes and coins for physical fiat currency notes and coins, they will put a daily limit on how much of the first type of fiat currency you can exchange for the latter. Or, if you want to exchange large amounts, they'll make you schedule the withdrawal days to weeks in advance. And in some of the most pozzed and jewed jew world order shitholes, which are the 5 eyes countries, banks are starting to outright refuse to allow you to withdraw your cash (actually exchange your fictional cash and coins for physical ones) as steps are being taken to get rid of cash altogether there.
Without cash, bank runs aren't possible because there is no physical cash and coins you can request to have your fictional cash and coins exchanged for when you try and "withdraw" some of your cash you think exists in the bank vault. With bank runs being impossible, every non-central bank becomes its own central bank, with no limit on digital fiat currency creation. Especially combined with de facto or (in the case of the US, de jure since 2020) zero reserve requirements.

be teen in 2010

"Can't wait to make 100k and be rich"

finally make a little over 100k by 2019

can't afford shit but think I can still make it

2020-2022

prices skyrocket and never stop to this day

already up to $130k

still can't afford shit

It's over

yup. we got so fucking screwed man.pains me every single day of my waking. whats even the point of anything?

"pick yourself up by the bootstraps" meme is why boomers are the most hated generation of all time.

and then blames the unborn for not working hard enough.

theres nothing anyone can do to recapture the opportunity that comes with colonizing an entire emptied out continent

theres nothing anyone can do to recapture the economic domination of the US coming unscathed out of a world were every other major economy was literally reduced to rubble by war

it doesn't matter who you vote for. it doesn't matter if you put hitler 2.0 or lenin 2.0 in power

the conditions that precipitated these eras of economic opportunity and prosperity are gone and they are not coming back. no one can bring them back.

and boomers squandered it all away on vacation homes, boats, cars and shiny gadgets. and then maybe worst of all... they made their children bail them out when their risky insane investments went belly up so they could continue to retire wealthy. has there every been a more selfish worthless generation?

It is what it is, you can never change it. Even if there were earth shaking reforms tomorrow (there won't be), it still wouldn't change your life until you're well into middle age. All you can do now is adapt. I'm sure by the time I'm making $200k I still won't be able to afford shit kek

do you at least like what you do?

If you make $100k, you're upper class

society gets bad for everyone through devaluation

"hurrr I earn even less fuck you my situation is even worse"

how about we fix things for everyone in that context you fucking MONG

maybe if it was 1998 you cuck

My family owns the condo I stay in. Why didn’t your family love you enough to give you a home?

fag

Lessons learned, to not post too quick

For maybe you forgot to add something

US Individual Income Distribution (2024)

2024

HURRR

And have to add it in a sententence in another post

Things are so shit right now I don't even care if I lose my job, my life will be exactly the same (garbage)

i dont get how people are happy or have the energy on the weekends to do anything. they have to be miserable on the inside and in massive debtmaxxing.

I feel that anon, I landed a 100k job not in NY/CA and I can't find a apartment without roommates for less than 40% of my annual income post taxes.

yup... we're so fucked.