InevitableSwing [none/use name]@hexbear.net to chapotraphouse@hexbear.netEnglish · 9 months agoWhat does it take to be "middle class" in America today?hexbear.netimagemessage-square54fedilinkarrow-up1116arrow-down10file-text
arrow-up1116arrow-down1imageWhat does it take to be "middle class" in America today?hexbear.netInevitableSwing [none/use name]@hexbear.net to chapotraphouse@hexbear.netEnglish · 9 months agomessage-square54fedilinkfile-text
archive.today • How Americans define the middle-class and why they can’t reach it - The Washington Post
minus-squareMF_COOM [he/him]@hexbear.netlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up29·9 months agoThat’s bullshit that 35% of Americans have all six. Only 50% Americans even have a job. Mayyybe 35% of Americans have the first one.
minus-squarekeepcarrot [she/her]@hexbear.netlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up25·9 months agoIt’s probably counted by household rather than individuals, to be unreasonably generous to them
minus-squaredavel [he/him]@hexbear.netlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up19arrow-down1·9 months agoYeah that doesn’t even pass the sniff test. How do they even print garbage like that?
That’s bullshit that 35% of Americans have all six. Only 50% Americans even have a job. Mayyybe 35% of Americans have the first one.
It’s probably counted by household rather than individuals, to be unreasonably generous to them
Yeah that doesn’t even pass the sniff test. How do they even print garbage like that?
Sniff test…