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To add a little perspective, before Covid some 40%ish number of Americans were living paycheck to paycheck.
by jeherr 5y ago
To add a little perspective, before Covid some 40%ish number of Americans were living paycheck to paycheck.
- DoreenMichele 5y agoYeah, some people are very much struggling to survive. They don't have it to spare.
- brianwawok 5y agoHalf or more of the above figure have an iPhone / Samsung smartphone with an unlimited data plan. It’s complicated and not as simple as nothing to spare. Plenty that could spare, including software devs making 100k+ a year, don’t care.
- DoreenMichele 5y agoI used to live in the San Francisco Bay Area. Some people making nominally large salaries don't have a lot of discretionary funds available. I believe a lot of our societal gridlock is currently rooted in the deficiencies of our built environment. I am trying to focus on how we make progress on that. A lot of people are currently in a situation where they need a high paying job to cover "basic expenses" and it's killing them. We need to find a way out of that if we really want to solve the climate stuff.