Part 1: My Life Is a Lie
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How a Broken Benchmark Quietly Broke America

The threshold household income where a family can afford housing, healthcare, childcare, and transportation without relying on means-tested benefits is a lot higher than the official stats suggest.

  • SanctimoniousApe@piefed.socialEnglish
    18·
    11 hours ago

    I’m sure many of my left-leaning readers will say, “This is obvious, we have been talking about it for YEARS!” Yes, many of you have; but you were using language of emotion (“Pay a living wage!”) rather than showing the math. My bad for not paying closer attention; your bad for not showing your work or coming up with workable solutions. Let’s rectify it rather than cast blame.

    Yeah, no. How convenient you wanna do that when there’s no way to avoid the shit that has been given to the other side for-fucking-ever.

    • Pup Biru@aussie.zoneEnglish
      1·
      3 hours ago

      it’s also rather different things:

      pay a living wage is a concept that applies no matter when you say it

      this maths is for this particular point in time and a particular set of circumstances

    • JakenVeina@midwest.social
      4·
      6 hours ago

      Yeah, the idea that no one has been able to put math behind the wealth and wage gaps until now is UTTER horse-shit. You weren’t just “not paying closer attention” dude, you were being WILLFULLY ignorant, and if you really want to be part of the solution now, that deserves a lot more than a “my bad”.