And this is why some people are voluntarily living in their cars, you can't save for shit when rent eats 2/3 of your paycheck
this post was submitted on 14 Dec 2025
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"American experiment" I hate that phrase.
America is just an arbitrary area on the ground some of us were born inside. It's not some erudite experiment and it never was. It's five corporations in a trench coat pretending to be a country.
This is what people mean by that:
"Four score and seven years ago our fathers brought forth on this continent, a new nation, conceived in Liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal.
Now we are engaged in a great civil war, testing whether that nation, or any nation so conceived and so dedicated, can long endure."
In its conception is very much was an experiment. "A republic, if you can keep it" so to say.
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The American experiment has succeeded, because the suffering is the point and the system is working as intended.
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The 4channer should just get another part time job so they can work 50 hours a week and not have any time to themselves, that's the new American Dream
How is Obamacare limiting your hours? Are you a truck driver?
It happened to me a decade ago before I switched careers. I did substitute teaching and once I hit 29 hours for the week they’d send me home so I wouldn’t qualify for healthcare. I was regularly told I was one of the good subs, and I loved working with the staff and kids.
I tore my rotator cuff one summer and just had to grin and bear it for a year because I had no coverage and was worried about the bills. Thanks Uncle Sam!
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businesses with over 50 full time employees are required under obamacare to offer minimum health insurance. it doesn't have to be affordable. most full time workers can't afford their company's family insurance, and don't qualify for any subsidies because their employer offers insurance.
some places it is cheaper to hire only part timers. other places they just get the option with the lowest employer cost share.
health insurance in the US is a byzantine maze of combinations that change radically from state to state, town to town, and business to business.
edit: so, aflac offers a supplemental insurance, so your employer can buy a high deductible plan, and aflac steps in to pay enough of the remainder to make it a low deductible plan. you have two insurance cards, and a third party insurance management firm who takes a cut just to manage it all.
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This really puts to heart one of the issues with our current perception of minimum wage.
People will look at that and say... Yeah but they can afford to live and not realize that we have made a slave out of the worker who can neber better themselves or get more.
They have barely enough to have the barest essentials and tell them unironically to just better themselves or figure out how to be more productive and they can be rewarded while the reward just being a nicer endenturement.
The american experiment was to get people to be able to grow and develop more because of the new efficiency giving more spare money amd resources to create more. When you have more spare money you can buy more things at the end of the day.
Now its ablut how long can we keep it chugging along with nothing changing so the same people and same groups can keep everything as it is.
This is no longer a wage that makes us all equal but gives us the right to fail of our own accord but makes it so that you must struggle to keep going at all.
I was born into one of those nowhere low wage "right to work" shitholes and I have some advice for people in them.
Leave. GTFO. Get a passport or move to a state with a high minimum wage. Your family doesn't matter. Your education options don't matter. You will be better off somewhere else, I guarantee it.
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My husband and I are moving from California to Yucatán in April. Hopefully the cost of living there gives us a better quality of life.
you're gonna feel real stupid when that meteor comes for round 2
We'll wear helmets.
Besides fighting the system, a good solution in cases like this is to find roommates. You can easily drop your rent and utilities cost to a third of what you'd normally pay.