@KenjiCapital@donkeyDdevelops Wow. I worked with the fiber company who put in connection to all these “apartments” and no one was renting them out. Interesting to see them being sold as condos now. That area had a lot of potential but with the sports teams gone, everything went to shit
This viral Sears story is sparking debate about today’s economy
He says full time retail workers could afford a comfortable middle class life back then, sparking a debate about when a steady job stopped being enough to get ahead.
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I'll say what a lot of people in finance won't say out loud.
Plenty of jobs out there still pay $16 to $22 an hour. Full-time, that's roughly $2,770 to $3,810 a month before taxes.
Now go find rent under $1,600. Add a car payment, insurance, gas, groceries, utilities, your phone bill.
That's before health insurance comes out of your check. Before student loans. Before a kid gets sick and you're out $300 at urgent care. Before your car needs new brakes you didn't budget for.
I've worked in personal finance for over a decade, so believe me, I'm not anti-budget. Budgets matter.
But there's a point where telling someone making $19 an hour to "cut back more" stops being useful advice.
You cannot budget your way out of $3,600 in unavoidable monthly costs on a $2,900 paycheck. The math isn't a discipline problem.
Sometimes the spreadsheet isn't broken. The income is just too low to cover what it costs to be alive right now.
I hope people are starting to realize how bad of an idea turf is. Bad for the environment, our health, the ecosystem. How people don’t realize installing plastic flooring in their yard isn’t a terrible idea is beyond me.
It's getting progressively easier to attain cheap, short-lived dopamine hits, but it's getting harder to achieve and maintain some important human milestones.
Easier than ever to survive but arguably getting tougher to thrive.
These signs get quiet when they’re done. That’s your warning:
• Cancer
• Pisces
• Scorpio
These signs don’t get revenge. They upgrade:
• Capricorn
• Virgo
• Taurus