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The people who hang out here are the lucky 90th percentile of our society that are just barely able to tread water at this point. Everyone else is drowning.

Try to imagine living on $60k, then think about the fact that that’s a good salary to a majority of US workers.




If everyone was truly drowning, there would be massive civil unrest. As usual, people in general seem to be finding a way.




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