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$95,000 a year is the new “middle class”
How America is running out of good paying jobs to support the middle class
We did it to ourselves. We got married, had kids, and wanted to raise a family. I chose a job with good work hours, she wanted to take an active role in our kids lives and is at home. According to most articles, we should be living a satisfying life.
Life is what you make of it — hogwash
You can argue being homeless in the United States is a satisfying life, say, compared to being a slum dwelling in Mumbai. This is the argument used to stifle complaints from the middle/upper middle class. It’s the 90% vs the 9% and somehow the top 1% keeps getting a bigger share of the pie.
We’re not complaining about innovation generating benefits for all. But lately a lot of disruption has been about taking money from people and putting it into the pockets of the investing class, the millionaires and billionaires. Has social media and online news made us connected and informed in the way we envisioned? Surely there was the promise of it, before we lost control of our privacy, the importance of the truth, and the quality of online discourse. These growing pains we’re going through all but decimated thousands of good paying news gathering jobs held by journalists nationwide.
