Month: July 2023

It has came upon on me that I have been looking through the news, real life scenario of the uprising food prices going up, living costs going up, and everything else is looking like unaffordable at this point. I am scared that it is getting at the point where everything else b comes unaffordable and minimum wage won't be raised at all to match the inflation of things. People continue to tell us myths of tickle down encomiums when Reagan pretty much fucked it all up, inflation would go down when we handled the Covid-19. It's been two years after we pretty much controlled Covid-19, but I see no reason for things to keep in the inflation prices where it becomes everyone's struggle. Recently, the Supreme Court has fucked us, young people, about striking down on the loan forgiveness, when it's completely okay for people to have their $400k PPP…

I’m not sure my title makes sense – basically the idea would be where everyone who pays on a payroll would have to inform this dept with a census for each employee. What they’d give is a general description of the job so it can be categorized, then have what they pay weighed up against that. So say if you had a “marketing director” if you paid them say 15 dollars an hour, it would find the average pay and see how far off of that it was and if it was “too low” you’d get fined for example. Same would be true for how many employees on the floor that didn’t have a stake in the company – so having yourself working at your own business wouldn’t count against you if you weren’t on payroll for example. I don’t know if any of this makes any sense or if…

This has been the hardest month/week of my life. I (28M) currently live 22hrs from the nearest family. My wife (22F) is a SAHW because I was bringing in a substantial income but she had a medical emergency that drained our savings out in May of this year. My boss called me two weeks ago placing me on paid admin leave and then fired me a week later. (Filed a grievance at the request of my union. Will not disclose those details.) And then my mom called me Tuesday last week stating my 100yr old grandfather is dead back in Texas. I am mentally and emotionally drained. I can't even comprehend how to make ends meet and because of the medical emergency we don't have any savings. I have filed for unemployment and I have updated my resume. I'm praying for a miracle that I hear something very soon. I…

Am Indian and must admit, there was a time in my life when I wanted to move to the US, thought that there were better wages, living conditions and I can live a comfortable life there. But for some reason, I chose to postpone the studies/work plan and I never actually got around to it…these days after reading posts from this sub, I realise….both India and US are shit and it's a good thing I didn't move…at least here I have a comfortable life and can afford things….in US , I will surely be homeless….i feel really bad for all of us, am not talking down about the US, what we go through is a global problem, some of the issues faced by the US are also prevalent in India, I just feel we as people must collaborate and organise sans borders. just a thought.