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I'm not asking to be rich.
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this post was submitted on 10 Nov 2023
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A place to discuss positive changes that can make work more equitable, and to vent about current practices. We are NOT against work; we just want the fruits of our labor to be recognized better.
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- All workers must be paid a living wage for their labor.
- Income inequality is the main cause of lower living standards.
- Workers must join together and fight back for what is rightfully theirs.
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- Higher wages for underpaid workers.
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- Better and fewer working hours.
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Oh. Just over the median income in America. So literally half the population of the most powerful country in the world is insulated from the problem.
EDIT: okay, looks like I was looking at median household income and not median personal income. Meaning my math is off.
I mean, cost of living is higher than america than other parts of the world and other parts of the world have state-funded security programs that take some of the anxiety away from living.
Here in (western) europe I'd wager at half of people (including me) are insulated from "poverty induced misery". There are an awful lot of stupidly big and expensive cars on the road.
Am I glad that ~400 million (200 mill in north america, 100 mill in europe, 100 mill everywhere else) people now live in that state of relative freedom? absolutely, but it is depressing to think about what a minority of humanity it really is.
Yeah... It's a tiny sliver of the species.
I feel like the mean is rather skewed in the US. It's almost certainly less than half that are insulated.
You're right, I was off on a weird thing. Was thinking about the skew between mean and median indicating this or that, but starting in median keeps us in population counting territory. I was just wrong. Derp.