• Mamertine@lemmy.world
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    8 months ago

    This is the problem with consumerism. Most American households do live with very little savings. Even people with really high income do this. It’s culturally normal and encouraged with all the advertising to buy more stuff.

    A doctor earning over $300,000 a year in the Midwest should but under any circumstances be considered the working poor simply because they don’t have any savings.