'An economic divide that is widening': Almost one third of Americans earning $150,000 a year or more report living paycheck to paycheck — and many rely on credit cards to close the gap
finance.yahoo.com
Some say they won’t be able to pay off their credit cards by the end of the year.
  • oldbaldgrumpy@lemmy.world
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    11 months ago

    If you’re making 150k and are living paycheck to paycheck you either live in a crazy expensive area or are a total fucking idiot when it comes to managing your money.

    • 𝕱𝖎𝖗𝖊𝖜𝖎𝖙𝖈𝖍@lemmy.world
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      11 months ago

      Rent in NYC where I live is insane. My partner and I recently toured a place where they broke up the basement of a building into 4 apartments, none of which had a real bedroom, and were asking for $3k each

      • interceder270@lemmy.world
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        11 months ago

        Good thing there are plenty of places to live outside of major cities.

        The only people who this isn’t a solution for are those who feel they’re entitled to live in places they can’t afford 🤷

        • hex_m_hell@slrpnk.net
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          11 months ago

          A lot of people like not commuting several hours a day, or having access to actual culture, or not being constantly robbed by meth heads, or not being murdered because of their Identity, or about a million other things that are difficult to impossible outside of cities…

          But fuck all the queer and trans people who escaped to the safety of cities. If they can’t afford t, they shouldn’t be there, right? /s