Working Families Party

This isn’t inspiring. It’s a snapshot of how broken our system is. This is what it takes for an average person to save what Jeff Bezos makes in one minute of staring at his shoelaces.

Resources shouldn't be hoarded at the top while the rest of us struggle to get by.

May 15, 2024 at 11:00pmBuffer
Show threadUrzlMay 16, 2024

@WorkingFamilies "Millennial" is someone born between 1981 and 1996. The youngest of the cohort is 28 and the oldest are 43. They're not children.

So an adult who spent maybe a third to a half of their "productive years" working their ass off has saved almost a third of a house whose payments they couldn't then keep up with; they've saved a portion of a college education, depending on their major; they've saved maybe 1/20th of a retirement.

In what universe is that a huge success story?

Show threadhardkorebobMay 16, 2024
@WorkingFamilies Not successful. Hard working and praise worthy as an example of someone working like a donkey for very little reward is what I mean. Asses work for a morsel of grass. Very banal and vane existence if the purpose is money only. Now I dont know this person and maybe she or he gets off on doing this and then saying Hello World look at me what I do and stuff. Everyone is unique and yet very similar so maybe its a good thing for those who want to spend every waking moment as busybodies. Nothing wrong with any of it. Not an example to follow is my opinion. Not an example to be admired for. Nor any wisdom could be gained from it. Everyone has their own trajectory. The business of the world governments is to assist us not to walk to hell and yet we have the opposite today. Every leader is interested in only that we actually are busy so we cant think about how hard we are getting raped by them. ;)
Show threadThomas Guyot-SionnestMay 17, 2024
@WorkingFamilies Woohoo! She might even be able to afford a home before retirement!