Nearly 40% of Americans can't cover a surprise $400 expense

[Uitomy]

Having a good family structure is vital
I couldn't get a job for shyt in Jacksonville after I got out of ucf so I moved with my step dad and mom up in pg county, worked 2 shyt jobs till I got a nice one at Best buy, grinded for a year contemplating on what to do, in the mean time I put my money into Bitcoin (at .39 trying to get to at least .5), invested more into my photography, and then decided to be an electrician
Got into the program in Jax and now I'm here on a better path. It was only 2 years but I turned it around just like that. But I had a good support system that kept me sheltered and fed, I'd still do what I did without them but it'd probably feel like hell.

 

[aXiom]

Nah, they're just not good with money. Just budget and you should be able to make $12 an hour at 30 hours a week stretch pretty far with enough left over for a comfortable savings.

Did you forget to add the /s for sarcasm?

 

[Uitomy]

If everyone was a doctor it would be the equivalent of flipping burgers. The fact remains that everyone can't make it to the top. Some people are gonna be at Walmart and flip burgers or whatever. Still doesn't change the fact that the rich get richer and the poor don't get a fukking thing. Society is rigged against the many in favor of the few and hard work and elbow greese won't change that.

To be honest that's how it's going to be until the day we go extinct. That's how life is for every group of animals on the planet, you're either on top, or on the bottom. Society has been this way for humans since the begining of our species. Best you can do is strive to do the best you possibly can and stay at a comfortable level.

 

[winb83]

To be honest that's how it's going to be until the day we go extinct. That's how life is for every group of animals on the planet, you're either on top, or on the bottom. Society has been this way for humans since the begining of our species. Best you can do is strive to do the best you possibly can and stay at a comfortable level.

It doesn't have to be this way. The top 1% in America have more wealth than the bottom 90%. There is no excuse for that because 1% of the population doesn't need to hoard that much wealth. There's something immoral about that and yet we gotta listen to people in that bottom 90% (because let's be honest here nobody posting is in that top 1%) lecture other people in the bottom 90% about not going out to eat or buying a phone like the math of 1% of the population having more wealth than 90% of it is justifiable.

 

[RisingSon]

It's a dog eat dog world

 

[Uitomy]

It doesn't have to be this way. The top 1% in America have more wealth than the bottom 90%. There is no excuse for that because 1% of the population doesn't need to hoard that much wealth. There's something immoral about that and yet we gotta listen to people in that bottom 90% (because let's be honest here nobody posting is in that top 1%) lecture other people in the bottom 90% about not going out to eat or buying a phone like the math of 1% of the population having more wealth than 90% of it is justifiable.

Yeah but you and me are also like the top 1-5% of the planet ourselves too (it's hundreds of millions upon millions of poor people, I personally believe at least a billion) , so whenever we earn money and save it for ourselves (and use products from many of those countries for applicable gain) were doing that on a very very small scale ourselves. (Well assuming you live in one of the first world countries)

That 1% got it how they got it though breh, shyt has been hundreds of years in the making for a lot of thsm, it's how nature works, the strong conquer and maintain their stake, if you want to change that you must usurp their power which means conflict, it must be taken.........which probably means we'd have to kill them because they're willing to kill us, just keeping it real.

 

[Silkk]

It doesn't have to be this way. The top 1% in America have more wealth than the bottom 90%. There is no excuse for that because 1% of the population doesn't need to hoard that much wealth. There's something immoral about that and yet we gotta listen to people in that bottom 90% (because let's be honest here nobody posting is in that top 1%) lecture other people in the bottom 90% about not going out to eat or buying a phone like the math of 1% of the population having more wealth than 90% of it is justifiable.

“Immoral?”

Ain’t no morals to the shyt. Everybody knows that life is hard. But if you want to sit around crying about the 1% instead of emulating their blueprint to try to get to where they are, It says a lot about how bad you actually want it.

 

[Jahbarri]

I can believe it. Alot of Americans are basically indentured servants some just have nicer stuff . Most of our money is accounted for before we even earn it. This check I have to pay my rent/mortgage, utilities, grocery shopping,credit cards/student loans etc.. Next check I have to pay my life insurance, health insurance, car insurance, car note, etc.
And we basically live trapped in this cycle till we die

Well the average and those who live dormant definitely not the case for upper echelon high income folk . I’m talking 250k minimum

 

[DaHNIC82]

The more I read.. The more Im convinced alot of these cats talking that "Its your own fault, Lace your bootstraps" talk are either peckerwoods, Trustfund babies or cats whom never experienced any hardship.

Life is very fragile and it could take a turn at any minute. Yes you have reckless spenders but you also have to look at the equations that can eat up your savings
.
Your Car might breakdown
You might get sick, wife might sick or kid sick
Loss of a job
Car Accident
Death or Death of a family member
Natural Disaster

Those circumstances can automatically turn your savings/bank account into a loop hole

 

[Noriega]

When 1/3 of jobs get automated by 2030


Y’all better come get this check before it’s too late


UBI 2020

Another fear mongering robot takeover myth

 

[LurkMoar]

Another fear mongering robot takeover myth

They were saying the same in 2002, look at em now


Even got robots answering your calls Keep playing yourself

 

[HabitualChiller]

I travel all over the world so yes, have you? Theres mile long stretches in usa with homeless people, you have places in usa without clean running water, and you have people dying because they cant cant a medication. What developed country is like this?

A 3rd world country would take that situation in a heartbeat lol.

And the situation in America is nowhere near that bad.

Edit: Most 3rd world countries are war-torn and famine-striken. You don't know wtf you're talking about.

 

[Kuwka_Atcha_Ratcha]

A 3rd world country would take that situation in a heartbeat lol.

And the situation in America is nowhere near that bad.

Edit: Most 3rd world countries are war-torn and famine-striken. You don't know wtf you're talking about.

What third world countries have you spent considerable time in?

At best its a devloping country, no way usa should be compared to real first world countries like japan, england, france, belgium, uae, noooo way

 

[Strapped]

https://www.thecoli.com/threads/maj...ive-is-something-major-on-the-horizon.727988/

These guys will fix it

 

[ThaRealness]

*Gets Lyft So He Can Bypass the 12 Hour Driving Cap*


"Its an Auto Expense"

*Finds Come Up*