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Americans are spending the biggest share of their income on everything. If you haven't noticed, salaries haven't gone up in the past decade but housing prices h

Americans are spending the biggest share of their income on everything. If you haven't noticed, salaries haven't gone up in the past decade but housing prices have doubled. So has everything else. I can't afford my ADHD medication because having somewhere to live is more important, and having something to eat takes up the rest of the family budget. We end each week with $0 in the bank. Looking for a software development job but it definitely isn't easy.

bryanlarsen 3y ago
Wage growth has outpaced inflation for the last 11 months. https://www.statista.com/statistics/1351276/wage-growth-vs-inflation-us/ https://www.statista.com/statistics/1351276/wage-growth-vs-i...
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- underlipton 3y ago
  10 years isn't 11 months. ZIRP and a bunch of other stuff happened in between the two.
  - bryanlarsen 3y ago
    For 9 out of 10 years wage growth out paced inflation.
    - underlipton 3y ago
      1) CPI is busted and understates inflation. 2) Wage growth measures are busted because they a) conflate the massive growth of top quartile incomes with with the stagnation, in real terms, of wages of the median and lower earner, and b) generally start well into the collapse of middle-class real income (and, covering the last decade, show the "growth" of the post-GFC recovery), and so don't capture the size of the hole the majority of America is digging itself out of.
      - LoganDark 3y ago
        More like digging itself deeper into. While the rich get richer.
ptek 3y ago
In NZL I pay $5nzd for 3 months? I’m On 30mg Ritalin instant a day. One doctors check up every 3 months. No health system is over loaded I have to book 2 weeks in advance. As for the food. Pistachio nuts are expensive. These trade restrictions on Iran are annoying as I have to pay $30nzd a kg of pistachio nuts. Angus steak is also expensive
- LoganDark 3y ago
  That's definitely part of America Here it costs me $50 for two weeks. I'm supposed to be on 30mg dexedrine a day.

bryanlarsen 3y ago

Wage growth has outpaced inflation for the last 11 months. https://www.statista.com/statistics/1351276/wage-growth-vs-inflation-us/ https://www.statista.com/statistics/1351276/wage-growth-vs-i...

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underlipton 3y ago
10 years isn't 11 months. ZIRP and a bunch of other stuff happened in between the two.
- bryanlarsen 3y ago
  For 9 out of 10 years wage growth out paced inflation.
  - underlipton 3y ago
    1) CPI is busted and understates inflation. 2) Wage growth measures are busted because they a) conflate the massive growth of top quartile incomes with with the stagnation, in real terms, of wages of the median and lower earner, and b) generally start well into the collapse of middle-class real income (and, covering the last decade, show the "growth" of the post-GFC recovery), and so don't capture the size of the hole the majority of America is digging itself out of.
    - LoganDark 3y ago
      More like digging itself deeper into. While the rich get richer.

ptek 3y ago

In NZL I pay $5nzd for 3 months? I’m On 30mg Ritalin instant a day. One doctors check up every 3 months. No health system is over loaded I have to book 2 weeks in advance. As for the food. Pistachio nuts are expensive. These trade restrictions on Iran are annoying as I have to pay $30nzd a kg of pistachio nuts. Angus steak is also expensive

LoganDark 3y ago
That's definitely part of America Here it costs me $50 for two weeks. I'm supposed to be on 30mg dexedrine a day.