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Re:The Surprising Power of the Long Game by mattkrause on Monday October 29, 2018 @01:29PM (#18329287)
People certainly live on $25,000/year--ask a grad student. Actually, the median household income is a bit over $50k (~$57k, I think), but many households include more than one earner, so there are a lot of people getting by on about that.

It would not be particularly pleasant, but as I said, it would be hard (possibly hard enough to merit a newspaper article), but not impossible.

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Re:The Surprising Power of the Long Game by kazen44 on Monday October 29, 2018 @04:13PM (#18330919)
this still comes down to the reasoning if suffering "for the long game" is worth it in such a case, especially with growing inequality?

Why would i skim off all money in the first 10 years of my working life if i know the pie gets bigger, but my share as a working class person is getting smaller and smaller?

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