this post was submitted on 27 Jul 2024
192 points (97.5% liked)
A Boring Dystopia
13571 readers
605 users here now
Pictures, Videos, Articles showing just how boring it is to live in a dystopic society, or with signs of a dystopic society.
Rules (Subject to Change)
--Be a Decent Human Being
--Posting news articles: include the source name and exact title from article in your post title
--If a picture is just a screenshot of an article, link the article
--If a video's content isn't clear from title, write a short summary so people know what it's about.
--Posts must have something to do with the topic
--Zero tolerance for Racism/Sexism/Ableism/etc.
--No NSFW content
--Abide by the rules of lemmy.world
founded 2 years ago
MODERATORS
you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
view the rest of the comments
Salaries in the US are a bit mad though, so it's mostly inflation surely?
No. Wages have remained stagnant and actually have gone down. The median salary is $74k, and remember that half of people in the US make less than that. 62% of Americans can't afford to buy the cheapest house in the cheapest state for housing.
If you live in the cheapest state, your salary is probably correspondingly low
That's the beauty of the system, it does not matter if everybody makes more money, the orphan crushing machine will extract everything they can from bottom 60% and the government enables it.
30% between the two is the mythical middle class and the most notorious of the bootlickers.