- cross-posted to:
- aboringdystopia@lemmy.world
- cross-posted to:
- aboringdystopia@lemmy.world
Crossposted from https://lemmy.world/post/38855479
You must log in or # to comment.
the american dream
About a third to a quarter of Americans are fine with this and stand to profit from it (or they think they do). The rest, while the majority, has no political power to affect meaningful change.
Outside of your local elections, at least.
In a national context, you’re right.
The Ratchet Effect, baby.
Dig it.
I make 50k+ a year more than my peers coding in the EU 🤷♂️
🤣 sure let’s compress a highly multidimensional issue into your income without comparing anything else. You guys don’t even have sidewalks in most areas 🤣
You’re right, they have “pavements”
It’s amazing that you can say all that without realizing it directly applies to the tweet 🤣.
I also make a much higher salary than my SWE friends in the EU. But:
- I’ve been at this for 25 years
- grinding - my work-life balance is garbage compared to my European friends in SWE
- regularly dealing with a fuckton of uncertainty
- had my retirement completely gutted by my partner’s cancer treatment
- got my stock portfolio screwed up because of my significant ESPP; my theretofore trustworthy, reliable employer decided to sell to a private equity firm
- get to travel very little and have to work when I do because of paltry PTO policies; and I get “generous” PTO compared to most of my US SWE peers; my PTO is decadent compared to most US proletariat
I could really go on. That great, yuuuuge, beautiful salary difference is deeply undercut to the point of collapse by everything all of the other costs (not just financial) that are co-requisite to working in the US.
Yeah the actual numbers don’t mean anything.
If you make $10k/month and have a hard time while somebody makes €2.5k/month and has a comfortable life, who is the richest?
You put it way more succinctly than I!
But under communism you have no dreams
Other countries are communist?
It is a joke. I always see the comments “but under communism you have nothing”
You are being fucked by the dominant class and the majority of you are ok with it!
So far.
