I'm in $160k worth of debt before you add on my wife's $30k student loan. 109k is what's left of my house and I've actually managed to get a decent amount of equity in it but if I lost my job tomorrow I'd be broke in a couple months. I'm a union auto worker and after 8 years I've finally hit top pay rate and by all accounts I'm doing pretty good. I'm the only earner for my family of four and we live pretty comfortably and I still hate capitalism. I've worked lots of overtime and put my body through hell over the last 8 years to provide my family with a decent life and right now I'm just terrified of losing it all because of the stupid ass economical system we live in. I'm not saying "woe is me" because I know the vast majority have it way harder than I do. I'm just saying even when you "succeed" in the world of capitalism it still feels like you could have your whole life stripped away at any moment due to dumbasses who will be fine no matter what happens.
Also the success that you describe has nothing to do with capitalism, but rather the small pocket of "socialism" that is unionization. If capitalism had its way your wife and kids would need to work too for your family to eek out an existence.
Solid point. If it weren't for the union I'd be lucky to make half of what I do now and my health insurance would be 10 times more expensive than it is now
I'm in $160k worth of debt before you add on my wife's $30k student loan. 109k is what's left of my house and I've actually managed to get a decent amount of equity in it but if I lost my job tomorrow I'd be broke in a couple months. I'm a union auto worker and after 8 years I've finally hit top pay rate and by all accounts I'm doing pretty good. I'm the only earner for my family of four and we live pretty comfortably and I still hate capitalism. I've worked lots of overtime and put my body through hell over the last 8 years to provide my family with a decent life and right now I'm just terrified of losing it all because of the stupid ass economical system we live in. I'm not saying "woe is me" because I know the vast majority have it way harder than I do. I'm just saying even when you "succeed" in the world of capitalism it still feels like you could have your whole life stripped away at any moment due to dumbasses who will be fine no matter what happens.
Also the success that you describe has nothing to do with capitalism, but rather the small pocket of "socialism" that is unionization. If capitalism had its way your wife and kids would need to work too for your family to eek out an existence.
Solid point. If it weren't for the union I'd be lucky to make half of what I do now and my health insurance would be 10 times more expensive than it is now