Breaking news: in one of the most productive countries / economies in the entire history of humanity, the majority of people creating that productivity do not get to enjoy the rewards of that productivity.

same as it ever was.

  • BraveSirZaphod@kbin.social
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    11 months ago

    You’re spot on here. Plenty of people count maxing out their 401k and IRA as “living paycheck to paycheck”, because their budgets would go upside if they missed a paycheck and did literally nothing to cover it.

    Combine that with the general bias all people have to view themselves as generally normal and you get a pretty meaningless metric.