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I'm all for fighting inequalities but the way you frame this argument is frankly obscene to me. The average salary in the US is about $60k/year. Worldwide avera
by simias 7y ago
I'm all for fighting inequalities but the way you frame this argument is frankly obscene to me. The average salary in the US is about $60k/year. Worldwide average is hard to establish precisely due to the many factors to consider but it must be around $10k to $20k.
Saying that you're part of "poor working class people" when you earn in a year what a significant number of your compatriots wouldn't earn in a decade is a ridiculous thing to say.
I commend you for being outraged at the insane inequalities in our civilization and I largely share your concerns but you really need to work on framing that better IMO.
- carapace 7y agoA well-paid peasant is still a peasant. Remember when the big tech co's were conspiring together against their own employees? "Apple and Google's wage-fixing cartel involved dozens more companies, over one million employees" https://pando.com/2014/03/22/revealed-apple-and-googles-wage-fixing-cartel-involved-dozens-more-companies-over-one-million-employees/ https://pando.com/2014/03/22/revealed-apple-and-googles-wage... You're just buying into "The Man"'s propaganda to keep the working class divided, yo. (It reminds me of a joke from Futurama. Leela gets a bunch of valuable stock and says, "Wow! I suddenly have an opinion about the capital gains tax!")
- thatfrenchguy 7y agoYou need to spent a year of two being really middle class in the US.
- carapace 7y agoI wasn't completely serious just then, eh? Anyway, I am "really middle class". Heck, I was homeless for about four or five years. When poor serfs complain about less-poor serfs I like to point out that it's the lords they should be grumbling about, if anyone.