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I like your focus on middle class. That is if we're viewing h1b as an input we ought to eval based on what's good for the middle class. I don't quite agree tha
by scrubs 1y ago
I like your focus on middle class. That is if we're viewing h1b as an input we ought to eval based on what's good for the middle class.
I don't quite agree that much with causes: high housing, Healthcare & med bankruptcy, and high education costs (correlating with high housing) are bigger factors. However non tech/lawyer/doctors have been adversely effected by the fact they've seen no real income gains in 25 years overall.
Now, the top 5% and corps need to be made to pay more taxes... thats another subject.
A couple elderly people i know are quite concerned Trump will take their snap benefits, or decrease medicaid/care etc while the tax reductions were given on the bb bill. Thats not acceptable.
- lumost 1y ago> However non tech/lawyer/doctors have been adversely effected by the fact they've seen no real income gains in 25 years overall. We may be reaching the breaking point where Americans view any solution to this problem as worth trying. We’re near 2 generations of flat real income for the vast majority of Americans. When your grandparents are the last generation to remember rising living standards, it’s hard to buy that the system is working for you at all.
- SpicyLemonZest 1y ago> We’re near 2 generations of flat real income for the vast majority of Americans. No, we aren't! We have statistics on this (https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/MEPAINUSA672N https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/MEPAINUSA672N). Median real income is up substantially since 40-50 years ago, depending on what you count as a generation. And we have stories and records of what life was like in the 1970s, when 80% of households had to hand wash dishes and 50% had to line-dry clothes. The reason people believe living standards haven't risen since their grandparents' day is that they get false nostalgia bait depictions of how a typical person lived in their grandparents' day. (What is true, and what I'm sure contributes to the power of the nostalgia bait, is that real income stagnated with the dot-com bubble and didn't hit a sustained rise again until the mid-late 2010s.)
- lumost 1y agohttps://wtfhappenedin1971.com/ https://wtfhappenedin1971.com/ While you are correct that real wages are up around 25%, productivity has nearly doubled. While various consumer goods, and technology have seen large improvements - ignoring the measurable and qualitative ways that affording basic aspects of life have become more difficult is not wise.
- henrikschroder 1y ago> and 50% had to line-dry clothes. Sorry for hijacking, but this is quite possibly one of the funniest American poverty markers around.
- nick49488171 1y agoCouldn't afford to throw enormous amounts of heat out the window during winter time! And all the time.
- hallway_monitor 1y agoWashing dishes and hanging clothes out aren’t actually torture.
- garciasn 1y agoVery true statement; but, it’s certainly neither convenient nor the least bit enjoyable, either.
- hyperman1 1y agoI've been handwashing my dishes for a long time and now have a dishwasher. One of the main benefits is having a place to store the dirty dishes until there are enough to make it worth washing. I used to do 3 washes a day, with 2 tiny ones.
- madaxe_again 1y agoI quite like hanging out the clothes to dry - bit of sunshine and birdsong, something to do with my hands while my brain plots and schemes.