US Politics on Sidechat | I was digging into the “2/3 of Americans live paycheck to paycheck” quote I’ve heard Leftists cite 1) it includes discretionary $ 2) as long as you spend all your $ (buying shares of Nvidia… shopping…) - you can self report as “paycheck to paycheck”

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I was digging into the “2/3 of Americans live paycheck to paycheck” quote I’ve heard Leftists cite 1) it includes discretionary $ 2) as long as you spend all your $ (buying shares of Nvidia… shopping…) - you can self report as “paycheck to paycheck”

-4 upvote, 8 comments. Sidechat image post by Anonymous in US Politics. "I was digging into the “2/3 of Americans live paycheck to paycheck” quote I’ve heard Leftists cite

1) it includes discretionary $

2) as long as you spend all your $ (buying shares of Nvidia… shopping…) - you can self report as “paycheck to paycheck”"

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Anonymous 22h

Must be nice to not have kids who need daycare, private school, and college tuition

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Anonymous 22h

Idiotic

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Anonymous 22h

Yeah because cancelling a gym membership is going to lift people out of poverty

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Anonymous 21h

Categorizing retirement and savings as non necessities is crazy work tbh

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Anonymous 22h

An investment banker making $500k who spends $100k on rent, $100k on food, $100k on strippers, $200k on taxes — qualified as “paycheck-to-paycheck” based on the metric lol

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Anonymous

#2 22h

“Actually you guys aren’t struggling cause I said so!”

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Anonymous

#1 22h

post

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Anonymous

OP 22h

if you're poor just cancel the next 40 years of dry cleaning to pay for that unexpected medical bill or car repair bill

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