Why A $100,000 Salary Can’t Buy The American Dream

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The simple answer is: its not that my country can't end poverty it simply won't end it because there's too much profit in it.

My professor once stated to our class "No one really cares about poor people" and as I have aged to maturity he was right it's all cap.

People working at charities created to solve the homeless problem in San Francisco make $200k+ yearly. Why would they want to solve the problem and lose their jobs?

My entire adult life I’ve felt like I’m one emergency away from having nothing… living the full American dream here

I wish people would stop calling the US the richest country in the world. We're not the richest country in the world. We're just the country with the richest people. And those rich people live at the expense of everyone else

Bad days are ending and even worse ones are begining

Why do i need $6000 to move into a cardboard apartment.

And then they have the audacity of telling people we need to have kids. Wtf.. How are we supposed to have kids and families if we don't have a stable place to live?

This is what a collapsing society looks like.

Like any real problem in the world, the government won’t actually fix it because it’s too lucrative to keep the problem going.

The apartment we lived in when we moved to Indiana in 2019 is now an air BNB. We're now paying $100 more per month for a rotting 1950's trailer that we paid for that beautiful two bedroom.

The "Mom's house" stigma also need to end. In Asian country, nothing wrong to lived in parent house and family is tight and supportive.

"The world has enough for everyone’s needs, but not enough for everyone’s greed.” — Ghandi

Rent and Housing is so high in California, that there are tens of thousands of “working” people who live in their vehicle(s) because they don’t earn a living wage.

Why sell a house when you can rent it out forever and increase the price every year?

Blackrock, Vanguard, a handful of other private equity firms, and people who can't afford homes are the ones buying homes. Blackrock offered me 250% to buy my home five years ago when I had bought it for 65K. Now my home is worth four times what I paid for it, and it's only climbing, even relative to inflation.

COVID was that final nail in the coffin for the middle class. The cost of living has insanely skyrocket and its not going to get any better on a minimum wage anymore.

It's not just evil rich people. It's also "compassionate" social work bureaucrats whose jobs would cease to exist if they actually ended poverty and homelessness.

There is one thing you misses. How corporations keep a country hostage. A quick summary: Governments main tax income comes from salaries, as they want to incentivize businesses to enter their country/state/province to get jobs and taxes from employees and a boosted economy. There is no nationalism, no group, its just cash, so corporations are happy to leave if their demands aren't met. Imagine if silicon valley decided to pick up and move to Spain instead. That's how they continue to exert their power on regions to force what they want.