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> Many people live paycheck to paycheck Roughly half of US salary earners, per BLS: * https://ofdollarsanddata.com/the-biggest-lie-in-personal-finance/ https:
by throw0101a 5y ago
> Many people live paycheck to paycheck
Roughly half of US salary earners, per BLS:
* https://ofdollarsanddata.com/the-biggest-lie-in-personal-finance/ https://ofdollarsanddata.com/the-biggest-lie-in-personal-fin...
(Though that includes students with summer jobs; still a lot though.)
- armagon 5y agoOh my goodness! That's appalling. How is our system so broken?
- imtringued 5y agoPeople want to pretend that it is all about "financial skills". Mostly because they want to blame poorer people who are bad at something because they are good at it and thus get to show off their superiority. It's not about useful skills, it's about the relative difference in skill to support a mental model/world view.
- nr2x 5y agoNo skill can turn $7.25 into a living wage.