Combine that with the obscene cost of housing, healthcare, lack of social services, transportation, the dehumanizing nature of most low wage jobs and the abuse workers are forced to endure (and most jobs in general), along with massive prison populations and prison labor, and just who is trapped in the worst of those material conditions, it is not hyperbolic to say that slavery never really went away, and for a lot of people they cannot even see their chains.
Is $3000 enough to live on there? My rent is $1700/month and food is about $150/week. Transportation is all personal so $4.25/gallon for gas on a commute that's usually 30-45 minutes. Health insurance is around $500/month per person, childcare is $1200-$2000/month until they reach 5.
$31,000 is the median wage, so a lot of people make like than that and have to deal with the same expenses I just listed. It's insane how little money is actually worth in America
It depends on where you live. It's pretty bad in the cities where the rent eats up a huge chunk of that. I'm in an area where the house was built myself and I'm so far removed from civilization that they don't really bother to make me pay property taxes. Health insurance and food/water is what eats it all up.
Median income in the US is $31,000 or thereabout.
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Combine that with the obscene cost of housing, healthcare, lack of social services, transportation, the dehumanizing nature of most low wage jobs and the abuse workers are forced to endure (and most jobs in general), along with massive prison populations and prison labor, and just who is trapped in the worst of those material conditions, it is not hyperbolic to say that slavery never really went away, and for a lot of people they cannot even see their chains.
Damn. It's around $3,000 in my country.
Is $3000 enough to live on there? My rent is $1700/month and food is about $150/week. Transportation is all personal so $4.25/gallon for gas on a commute that's usually 30-45 minutes. Health insurance is around $500/month per person, childcare is $1200-$2000/month until they reach 5.
$31,000 is the median wage, so a lot of people make like than that and have to deal with the same expenses I just listed. It's insane how little money is actually worth in America
It depends on where you live. It's pretty bad in the cities where the rent eats up a huge chunk of that. I'm in an area where the house was built myself and I'm so far removed from civilization that they don't really bother to make me pay property taxes. Health insurance and food/water is what eats it all up.
I am making that in an area with abkve average cost of lving. Oof