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My salary has gone up, but my purchasing power has gone considerably down

submitted by HelloDarknessMyOldFriend to Rants 1.6 yearsSep 14, 2023 13:56:32 ago (+49/-0)     (Rants)

I managed to increase my income by close to 75% in the past 10 years. It was great at first, but looking back, I made more money as a ratio of purchasing power back then than i do now. Sure I make more on paper now, but gas used to be much cheaper, taxes were cheaper, stuff was overall cheaper. Even if i wanted to buy something now, like a house, its horribly overpriced, and not worth it, usually made of lower tier builder grade shit. Cars arent much better, as its a race to the bottom to see who can make it for cheaper. I was looking on Zillow, and some of these houses are commanding insane prices. One of them was bought for 40,000 not even 2 years ago, and they want 200,000 for it now ... Cars that used to cost maybe 10,000, cost 35,000 or more. Not that i need a new car anyway.

You have pensions so broke and bankrupt they've resorted to suing companies for lost earnings (NYC Pension fund entered the chat), most criminals get away with it since the justice system either doesn't care or is in on the take, everything is just complete crap now


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[ - ] Belfuro 5 points 1.6 yearsSep 14, 2023 19:18:57 ago (+5/-0)

Same boat here.

I should be extremely well off

I earn 3* the ave income.

But raising three girls and yeah. It's tough.

Makes me weep thinking about others.

I get unlimited home kill meat.

I own a home.

How badly must most people be right now?

They fucked us Johnny.

[ - ] Trope 5 points 1.6 yearsSep 14, 2023 19:08:05 ago (+5/-0)

Before I was in my career, i could get by on McDoubles and the occasional McChicken. The Dollar Menu was the only saving grace for McDonalds.

Now in my career, that same meal is well over $20.

RIP Fast Food

[ - ] FuckShitJesus 2 points 1.6 yearsSep 14, 2023 20:08:17 ago (+2/-0)

The (cold hard) reality is that a 75% increase in salary in 10 years is not an accomplishment. It's a slightly above average standard of living increase.

The OP, and most like him who think similarly, do not have either skills to justify more or comprehension of the way the world works enough to demand more.

It's unfortunate, but most of the sheep are this way. It's one of many problems with FreeDUMB USA.

[ - ] NaturalSelectionistWorker 10 points 1.6 yearsSep 14, 2023 22:02:52 ago (+10/-0)

The cold hard reality is that jews have stolen a metric fuckton of our nation's wealth through inflationary central banking. https://odysee.com/@TheNaturalOrder:5/Federalreserve:4f

[ - ] PotatoWhisperer2 2 points 1.6 yearsSep 14, 2023 23:06:49 ago (+2/-0)

The OP, and most like him who think similarly, do not have either skills to justify more or comprehension of the way the world works enough to demand more.

That or he's a he, and he's White.

[ - ] Allienonymus 1 point 1.6 yearsSep 15, 2023 08:35:53 ago (+1/-0)

Yeah I'm up 500% in that same period. They're destroying the world but I'm not going to starve until jews convince the idiot masses to blame me

[ - ] FuckShitJesus 1 point 1.6 yearsSep 15, 2023 09:26:01 ago (+1/-0)

Even marginal self improvement sees 50-100% gains, year over year.

You cannot save the sheep.

[ - ] Trope 1 point 1.6 yearsSep 15, 2023 22:17:19 ago (+1/-0)

I agree. I see where my career path leads and want nothing to do with it. The moment I started making decent money, I started building a scalable business.

Successful doctors and lawyers are business owners. You don’t find wealth in a job but you can use it to start something great.

[ - ] DestroyerofSquirrels 2 points 1.6 yearsSep 14, 2023 21:51:01 ago (+2/-0)

Yeah fuck McDonald's

[ - ] NaturalSelectionistWorker 3 points 1.6 yearsSep 14, 2023 22:02:10 ago (+3/-0)

Just inflation from the Fed alone has robbed over 1/3 of what we should be making. https://odysee.com/@TheNaturalOrder:5/Federalreserve:4f

And that's assuming that the inflation measures that dataset is using are correct - if inflation is actually much higher (as it seems to be for most consumers), then we've been screwed out of a lot more of what we should be earning.

[ - ] big_fat_dangus 3 points 1.6 yearsSep 14, 2023 17:56:37 ago (+4/-1)

Yeah, shit blows. I feel like I'm back in the 10's when I was making 30k less.

[ - ] Trumpman1488 -2 points 1.6 yearsSep 14, 2023 20:33:14 ago (+0/-2)

GET A SECOND JOB THEN YOU LAZY BUMB!!!!!

[ - ] TheGreatWar 3 points 1.6 yearsSep 14, 2023 17:53:23 ago (+3/-0)

Bro a 12 pack of coke is $8. It was $3 in 2000. That's about 4.36% annualized. And don't even get me started on my Jew numbers. My income/hour has increased by more than a factor of 6 since then and yet an hour of work now buys the same number of index funds shares as it did then. Looking forward to retirement, if it exists, a 16 year old gas station clerk is doing as much for his future by saving x% of his income as a 50 year old medical doctor saving the same x%, in actual dollars too. You can't ignore the Jew value of money.

[ - ] Belfuro 1 point 1.6 yearsSep 15, 2023 03:23:29 ago (+1/-0)

Don't forget shrinkflation too.

Like making coke cans much smaller

[ - ] HeyJames 3 points 1.6 yearsSep 14, 2023 17:20:34 ago (+3/-0)

I bought a starter home built in the 1960s before the pandemic. Been thinking about upgrading but the prices people are asking is just crazy. To have someone come out and build you a custom home is like 500k minimum now. Will just have to wait until the crash or suck it up and get in debt.

[ - ] DestroyerofSquirrels 2 points 1.6 yearsSep 14, 2023 21:48:31 ago (+2/-0)

I feel you there man. When I was a teen minimum wage was ok, now I'm making like 4-6 times as much but it feels like I'm only making 40% more

[ - ] CoronaHoax 2 points 1.6 yearsSep 14, 2023 21:17:27 ago (+2/-0)

As of right now my salary went to almost 60% and purchasing power somewhere similar

[ - ] MoronSaint 2 points 1.6 yearsSep 14, 2023 20:04:58 ago (+2/-0)

Be glad your salary has gone up. I'm kidding but I'm just saying, some of us, our purchasing power has gone down and our salary has remained stagnant.

[ - ] HelloDarknessMyOldFriend [op] -1 points 1.6 yearsSep 15, 2023 09:23:13 ago (+1/-2)

I went from making 50$/hr and feeling super poor to making 120$/hr and still feeling poor ... I know in my mind its supposed to be an amazing salary, but its not really. Part of me wonders if that @FuckShitJesus is right and i need to ask for more, but i cant comprehend where or how would even reach beyond that level. Sure, I could go down the LLC world, but the paperwork and legalese will destroy you in a short time. You make more money up front, to have a bunch of bullshit fees thrown your way.

[ - ] FuckShitJesus 2 points 1.6 yearsSep 15, 2023 09:29:56 ago (+2/-0)

The uplift itself makes the legal cost & expertise a small rounding error.

Think bigger. Your only limitation is your risk aversion. This is why the average sheep is comfortable being given a (what they think is actually beneficial to them..) "benefits" package, hand picked for the best outcome for their employer and simply deducted from the total compensation they would otherwise get if they bought their own benefits private. Sheep are sheep, because they trade a bit of (perceived) safety & security for someone else making the most from their labor.

You merely need to recapture your labor for yourself, and you will swiftly see that if you are legitimately capable, you've simply been stolen from your entire life. It's a completely freeing experience.

Successful people almost never become successful by working for others. You must work for yourself.

[ - ] deleted 1 point 1.6 yearsSep 14, 2023 14:57:10 ago (+4/-3)

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[ - ] Hand_Of_Node 2 points 1.6 yearsSep 14, 2023 17:02:21 ago (+2/-0)

you can just be negative as humanly possible

It will never be enough. Most people are totally complicit with the regime, which is why those in the knowse refer to them as cattle.

I exchanged comments with someone recently who said "Yes, I'd love to be a pet and be taken care of by my owner." Poor guy was confusing pets with animals raised for consumption. They haven't bred 8 billion of us out of love and compassion. Overbreeding reduces overall quality, but is more than compensated by the massively increased profits and power.

[ - ] HeyJames 2 points 1.6 yearsSep 14, 2023 17:23:17 ago (+3/-1)

In order to be a free animal you must be willing to hunt and kill. Most are unwilling to do that and so will accept their fate.

[ - ] deleted 1 point 1.6 yearsSep 14, 2023 18:10:24 ago (+3/-2)

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[ - ] Love240 3 points 1.6 yearsSep 14, 2023 20:35:41 ago (+3/-0)

Stop giving a fuck when it isnt your turn to give a fuck is what it boils down to.

Arrogance: That's what this boils down too.

We live in one of the most selfish societies that has ever come to exist. It's no surprise, because of this, that we give a fuck about something that isn't even ours to give a fuck about.

We've conflated things in our mind as we arrogantly claim authority over something which we have absolutely no control.

And what results is similarly predictable; what happens when you worry about something you have no control over? Anxiety, which men tend to outlet as anger because it is easier to explain (less embarrassing of an emotion) being mad than being afraid.

[ - ] deleted 1 point 1.6 yearsSep 14, 2023 23:36:20 ago (+3/-2)

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[ - ] Hand_Of_Node 2 points 1.6 yearsSep 14, 2023 21:00:49 ago (+2/-0)

Point by point destruction was deleted after clicking 'post'. Not interested in reconstructing.

[ - ] Tallest_Skil 1 point 1.6 yearsSep 14, 2023 14:16:23 ago (+7/-6)

Oh well, lol.

[ - ] albatrosv15 8 points 1.6 yearsSep 14, 2023 15:31:49 ago (+8/-0)

Tallest_skil is loling? Shit, the world is really ending.

[ - ] Tallest_Skil 5 points 1.6 yearsSep 14, 2023 17:02:32 ago (+6/-1)

What options do we have? Laugh, cry, kill ourselves, or fight back. I’m just about cried out, and we know we’ll never fight back, so what’s left?

Fucking launch the nukes already, man. I’m done.

[ - ] HeyJames 6 points 1.6 yearsSep 14, 2023 17:25:26 ago (+6/-0)

Good. Acceptance is the last step. There's nothing we can do. If you look at the pure numbers, the United States can only be saved by a mass racial cleansing campaign.

We can't even get "based and redpilled" people to agree this is necessary. Convincing normies? Impossible.

Best we can hope for is a good K/D ratio when they come kick down our doors 10 years from now. Until then I'm just going to enjoy life.

[ - ] PeckerwoodPerry 5 points 1.6 yearsSep 14, 2023 17:17:23 ago (+5/-0)

Apathy in the face of destruction. I'm bout there myself. I don't care anymore. I can't do anything other than mind my own business. Best case scenario is I'm not homeless and broke, so I make it my business to not do that. Past that, I'm powerless to effect real change. I'd love RWDS to take the brown and Hebrew off the ledger, but I won't do it alone and all my friends won't do it with me. What am I left with? Two car payments, rent, and an overall feeling of apathy for the shit I can't change.

[ - ] Trumpman1488 -2 points 1.6 yearsSep 14, 2023 20:23:00 ago (+1/-3)

SHUT THE FUCK UP PUSSY!!! SOME OF US REAL MEN ARE STILL FIGHTING BACK!!! I GOT MEMES LINED UP FOR FACEBOOK AND THIS SHITHOLE FOR FUCKING DAYS!!!!

[ - ] Clubberlang 2 points 1.6 yearsSep 14, 2023 21:37:12 ago (+2/-0)

Close your cockhole you stinkin up the room.

[ - ] Trumpman1488 -2 points 1.6 yearsSep 15, 2023 02:27:57 ago (+0/-2)

EAT MY ASSHOLE BITCH!!

[ - ] Clubberlang 1 point 1.6 yearsSep 15, 2023 23:06:10 ago (+1/-0)

Now that you fully transitioned isn't your front hole part of your asshole?

gaypatriot will help you out.

[ - ] Tallest_Skil 1 point 1.6 yearsSep 15, 2023 21:45:05 ago (+1/-0)

Hi, insurgent or whoever you want to be today.

[ - ] BulletStopper 5 points 1.6 yearsSep 14, 2023 19:59:46 ago (+5/-0)

I must admit to taking a certain perverse pleasure, whenever I hear someone down here (south Texas votes heavily democrat) start complaining about inflation, the cost of food, or the price of gas, or how little their pay is worth, etc., etc., in saying:

"Bet you're really starting to regret that vote for Biden now, huh?"

And the look on their face tells me all I need to know.

[ - ] Clubberlang 3 points 1.6 yearsSep 14, 2023 21:37:53 ago (+3/-0)

How can you see their face through the mask?

[ - ] BulletStopper 1 point 1.6 yearsSep 15, 2023 07:55:49 ago (+1/-0)

Mask or no mask, you can see it in their eyes. Like an abused dog.

[ - ] Empire_of_the_Mind -1 points 1.6 yearsSep 14, 2023 14:23:22 ago (+3/-4)

You can still buy an extremely good, functional car for $10k.

Housing is trickier but that's primarily due to overpopulation and refusal to build new housing. In the long term this will be partially resolved by the boomer die-off but that won't help you in the near term. If you didn't buy a house already it's probably wise to put that plan aside for the next 10 years and use those financial resources differently.

You can still fund your life with the things you need at a reasonable cost, you just need to change your behavior.

[ - ] deleted 3 points 1.6 yearsSep 14, 2023 15:45:02 ago (+5/-2)

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[ - ] Hand_Of_Node 4 points 1.6 yearsSep 14, 2023 16:31:47 ago (+6/-2)

Remember what it was like when there were fewer than 3 billion? That was already waaay too many.

[ - ] SecretHitler 3 points 1.6 yearsSep 14, 2023 19:24:38 ago (+3/-0)

Overpopulation from our side just means foreign invaders.

[ - ] deleted 1 point 1.6 yearsSep 14, 2023 18:23:44 ago (+1/-0)

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[ - ] big_fat_dangus -1 points 1.6 yearsSep 14, 2023 17:54:41 ago (+2/-3)

Brainlets like bush cuck don't really understand the actual problem of overpopulation. It isn't that there are too many people in terms of basic needs like food and shelter, you can get those in even the worst slum or favela. The problem is there are too many people in shithole countries who demand and feel entilted to the western first world lifestyle, and the western first world people. There aren't too many Europeans or North Americans. There are too many of everyone else. They ALL want to come here, and are pouring in by the millions. THAT is the true problem of overpopulation.