Well over $100k in the higher cost of living states, too. And as the article states, that’s typically about double what the median salary is for a single person in most states.
I’d like to point out that AES states - while maybe they didn’t have all the same quality or quantity of consumer goods - were able to able to to provide a comfortable life for everyone without all the predatory that US workers currently have. And don’t take my word for it, take it from the neoliberal queen herself, Angela Merkel. When asked about life in the former GDR, she described it as “almost comfortable”. Now before you mention that “almost” is an important qualifier, note that the context of her quote was her trying to criticize the former GDR but she grudgingly conceded the comment above.
It'd be nice if there was a clear thing on a spec sheet that you can filter by while shopping around for this.
I can easily tell how powerful a microwave is by the wattage, but because microwave manufacturers put deliberately misleading buttons on their units that don't do anything useful, it makes it hard to shop around.
When you buy the cheapest base-model car, the car companies at least have the decency to put blank buttons in for the features that aren't on that model.