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There's been a huge trend on social media (particularly on Instagram, Twitter, and Tik Tok) recently with normies making fun of people for being unemployed, and I'm just so tired of it. Some people are unemployed for certain reasons that are outside of their control (for example taking care of one of their loved one's or other stuff), these normies don't just completely ignore that but they also ignore how the vast majority of the unemployed peoppe would love to have themselves a job, but when they (the unemployed) take a look at the job market and see people not even getting paid the minimum wage while inflation gets worse and rent gets higher, why would they dive into the stage of being employed?
Just read this, why should an unemployed person take a step in the job market when thing's have become this bad?
This figure shows that the stakes of rising inequality for the broad American middle class are enormous. The figure compares the income growth of the middle three-fifths of American households since 1979 to their income growth had there been no growth in inequality. In 2007, the last year before the Great Recession, the average income of the middle 60 percent of American households was $76,443. It would have been $94,310, roughly 23 percent (nearly $18,000) higher had inequality not widened (i.e., had their incomes grown at the overall average rate—an overall average buoyed by stratospheric growth at the very top). The temporary dip in top incomes during the Great Recession did little to shrink that inequality tax, which stood at 16 percent (nearly $12,000) in 2011.
Or this.
According to the 2024 guidelines, a full-time employee earning the federal minimum wage of $15,080 per year makes just $20 more than the poverty guideline for a one-person household. And minimum-wage workers who have kids or care for other family members fall well below poverty levels, as guidelines increase with household size. (see Table 1) For example, a full-time $7.25 hourly wage meets slightly less than three-quarters of the income needed for a two-person household to stay out of poverty. A worker would need an hourly wage of $9.83 just to meet this bare-minimum threshold.
Nobody wants to be unemployed, but when you put context into play, it makes sense why certain people would rather be at home trying to take care of their families instead of dealing with this bullshit.
Just read this, why should an unemployed person take a step in the job market when thing's have become this bad?
This figure shows that the stakes of rising inequality for the broad American middle class are enormous. The figure compares the income growth of the middle three-fifths of American households since 1979 to their income growth had there been no growth in inequality. In 2007, the last year before the Great Recession, the average income of the middle 60 percent of American households was $76,443. It would have been $94,310, roughly 23 percent (nearly $18,000) higher had inequality not widened (i.e., had their incomes grown at the overall average rate—an overall average buoyed by stratospheric growth at the very top). The temporary dip in top incomes during the Great Recession did little to shrink that inequality tax, which stood at 16 percent (nearly $12,000) in 2011.
Or this.
According to the 2024 guidelines, a full-time employee earning the federal minimum wage of $15,080 per year makes just $20 more than the poverty guideline for a one-person household. And minimum-wage workers who have kids or care for other family members fall well below poverty levels, as guidelines increase with household size. (see Table 1) For example, a full-time $7.25 hourly wage meets slightly less than three-quarters of the income needed for a two-person household to stay out of poverty. A worker would need an hourly wage of $9.83 just to meet this bare-minimum threshold.
Nobody wants to be unemployed, but when you put context into play, it makes sense why certain people would rather be at home trying to take care of their families instead of dealing with this bullshit.
