Over half of Americans claim they're nowhere near achieving their definition of financial freedom, with 36% saying they have less than $1,000 in their savings accounts.
It’s hilarious for you to call me wealthy or privileged. In 2018 my income was about $17,000 and I was completely dependent on my partner.
I’ve worked for $6.85 an hour, I’ve been a dishwasher and a janitor and I’ve been unemployed and on welfare for long stretches, living off $600 a month.
I know where I am and where I’ve been. And it doesn’t change the basic framework of the capitalist meatgrinder.
If you have to work for a living because without that income you’d die, you’re a slave.
If you’re unable to pursue your interests and passions at any moment of the day, you’re a slave.
If others dictate or control your destiny because they have power over your employment and therefore your ability to sustain yourself, you’re a slave.
Just because I make more money than you do doesn’t mean we’re not in the same struggle.
This is class warfare. The billionaires want you to envy me. We’re not at war. We’re at war with the billionaires who pit us against one another.
This isn’t class warfare, this is obscene ignorance about slavery born of your immense wealth and privilege.
Also I make 6 figures.
It’s hilarious for you to call me wealthy or privileged. In 2018 my income was about $17,000 and I was completely dependent on my partner.
I’ve worked for $6.85 an hour, I’ve been a dishwasher and a janitor and I’ve been unemployed and on welfare for long stretches, living off $600 a month.
I know where I am and where I’ve been. And it doesn’t change the basic framework of the capitalist meatgrinder.
I once made $9k in a year, and yet I am still wealthy now with my current 6 figure income.
You’re not wealthy but maybe you live in an area that makes such an income very useful.
I am literally in the top 10% of income in the US, which does indeed make me wealthy.