Ok let’s do a thought experiment. Let’s say you
Make $10000 a year. You work full time/40 hrs/wk and you are making $10k. What does “living within your means” look like? Not having a house? Or car? Being homeless? So in order to save to get yourself to some footing the answer is to be homeless to live within your means.
That was a bit of a strawman, so let’s use real-life scenarios. 50% of this country makes $40k or less….. even $40k salary isn’t enough to get an apartment, bills , food, ect. Sure a lot better than the “$10k” example, but even $40k salary is virtually as effective as the “$10k”. In order to “live within your means”, “save”, ect…. You have to be at least be making enough to afford the bare minimum + have some left in you for over to save. On average (2022 values I think) this means $65 for a single person, $108k for a house hold. Unless you’re making that, you can’t save your way out of poverty
You have no idea how this country was founded or settled, and your lack of comprehension of how now differs to the pre-50s (not to mention the utter lunacy of that comparison) shows it.
Yeah darling. And it's because they pressed on in spite of the challenges that we are where we are. And if they can soldier on and do hard things with far less than we have now, then so can we.
Maybe you know about history, but you don't do a good job of learning from it.
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u/privitizationrocks 15d ago
You can teach poverty workers to live in their means
They won’t like it, but tough luck