I love when poor people bring up boot licking because that's how you know they lost the argument. Here let me make you feel better. It's everyone else's fault you're poor, it's the boomers, it's your parents, it's the governments, it's the corporations.
It has nothing to do with your low intelligence, laziness, lack of discipline, lack of drive, or any personal decision you make. All the people that make 100k are lying, lucky, or bootlickers!
Hope that makes you feel better, enjoy your mom's basement!
I’m not poor lol. I made a $173k as a Union Electrician last year. Then $55k into my pension and $22k into my 401k. I also get a $33k VA pension for life from being wounded in Afghanistan. Then I have one rental property.
However if you compare what my dad to me basically same job a Union Millwright and Veteran. He made less yet he had more buying power than me.
I don’t lose an argument. I’m just telling you that you’re a bootlicker.
Ok let’s add up a salary of $70k for a family of four in an average city in America.
What’s $70k per year after taxes? $54k
Groceries - $12k - $20k/a year. Let’s say $15k ($39k)
Gas - $3k times 2(Husband and Wife) ($33k)
Rent - $22k ($17k)
Electric - $2k ($15k)
Car - $12k ($3k)
Car insurance - $2k ($1k)
Phone $2k (-$1k)
You know I didn’t even get to the kids yet right? So tell me how do you make it off $70k($54k). Please elaborate bootlicker.
He didn't have more buying power he just didn't buy as much. How many TVs did your dad have? How often did he buy a new car? How many flights did he go on? When something broke who fixed it? How much smaller was his house? How many cell phones did he have? How many times did he go out to eat? How often does your wife repair clothes, instead of paying someone to deliver? How often do you throw spoiled groceries out instead of freezing it? How many streaming services did he have? How many vacations did he have? How elaborate was his car? Did it have back up cameras, 12 airbags, loud sound systems, large touch screens?
If you lived hyper Minimalist like they did then you'd have a mucher higher quality of life.
It's much easier to live frugally than it is to earn more money. This is why people come to America barely speaking English and do great here. This is why people risk their lives to come here. They're not delusioned that they can buy a new cell phone, car, and TV every year and still think they deserve more.
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u/Matthewlang1994 12h ago
Because they're bad with money?