The average rent in the U.S. just hit $2,000 a month.
The federal minimum wage net pay is $1,256 a month.
Let that math sink in.
Someone working full time still comes up $744 short of just paying rent.
Before food. Before utilities. Before gas. Before anything.
This isn’t laziness. This isn’t poor budgeting.
You cannot budget your way out of earning less than your rent costs.
The federal minimum wage hasn’t changed since 2009. Rent has nearly doubled in that same time.
The system isn’t broken by accident.
And until wages catch up, which could take decades, generating income outside of one hourly job isn’t optional anymore.
It’s survival.
~Casper Capital~
OK FLORIDA
I LIVE 53 STORIES ABOVE A DATA CENTER, 1 BLOCK AWAY...
Not the airplane taking off...
The rest is data center noise....
DON'T DO MORE OF THIS TO FLORIDA....
BYRON DONALDS CAN NEVER BE GOVERNOR OF FLORIDA....
The government is preparing to seize homes and land using eminent domain for the construction of a Data Center in Coweta County, Georgia
This American’s childhood home is being “taken by force by Georgia Power. Homeowners in this county do not have a choice”
It affects over 330 private properties. Georgia Power says it will negotiate purchases and easements and use eminent domain
Georgia Power claims its to strengthen the grid for the growing energy demand in Georgia (due to many new data centers)
The lines are widely linked to Project Sail, a massive proposed hyperscale data center campus that will span 829 acres
It gets worse when you find out she said this to arts and humanities graduates who are about to enter the workspace while it's facing higher rates of unemployment due to corporate greed using AI to replace them.
Incredibly insensitive and out of touch as a graduation speech.
It’s always wild watching white people find humor in Black pain being murdered by a police officer and begging for air is somehow comedy material. That wasn’t a random accident or harmless joke George Floyd died at the hands of law enforcement while people watched and did nothing. But somehow a white man can turn that into entertainment and everybody around him just laughs and giggle. Kevin sitting there kiking along like a good house slave it is exactly why people keep getting away with this behavior.
China’s trawlers are electrocuting the Persian Gulf to death.
Their industrial scale Pulse fishing kills everything in the water, leaving a dead ocean.
They need to be stopped before the ocean is completely lifeless.
The Trump appointee in charge of grazing policy owns at least 5 cattle operations that will directly benefit from the opening of federal lands to cattle grazing.