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August 25, 2016
In the United States of today, clouds gather as the royalty toast each other with expensive wines.
In numbers that a half century ago would have seemed impossible, the American young live with their parents, being unable to find jobs to support themselves.Waitressing in a good bar pays better in tips than a woman with a college degree can otherwise earn, assuming that she can earn anything at all. Employers having learned to hire them as individual contractors, they move into their thirties with no hope of a pension for their old age. Desperation and hatred are close cousins. Paris, 1787: It Reaches Manhattan, Doubtless Due to Continental Drift | Fred On Everything
Posted by gerardvanderleun at August 25, 2016 6:36 PM. This is an entry on the sideblog of American Digest: Check it out.
Your Say
I'm winding up my working career just like I started it- pushing broom nights for the local elementary school. On that salary in 1976 I rented a house in a nice neighborhood, bought a new Volkswagen, and even after car payments and insurance I had plenty of money for the essentials, and the luxuries (surfboards, wetsuits, weed). I even had a nice little savings account. Forty years later, I'm paid more than three times as much for the same job. But today's check would barely cover food, and rent on a shitty apartment in a shitty neighborhood. Even the young, single kids working here have two jobs, and room mates. The day man at my school actually works three jobs to keep a roof over his family's head. Workin' for a livin' just ain't what it used to was.
JWM
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at August 25, 2016 10:15 PM
People on welfare make out far better than you do with no taxes to pay. On the East Coast with the exception of Virginia and Maine, welfare pays more than $40,000/annum. And you have time for golf.
Posted by: Vermont Woodchuck at August 26, 2016 4:26 AM
I knew after the last election that the current malaise would continue for four more years. If nothing changes this November, I'm going to change careers to guillotine repair and maintenance and I suspect that business will be booming.
Posted by: StephenB at August 26, 2016 7:29 PM