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Is There No Point in Working anymore?

27 yo single Male, I have lived in New York my whole life and am self-reliant with no support, and I feel hopeless looking at these jobs offering $17-$20/hr in a city where the minimum needs to be $24 for the tri-state area. Corporate jobs are no better; they have high requirements for subsistence pay. Retirement will not exist for my generation; people live paycheck to paycheck, and starting a family looks more like a pipe dream. What is the point of working if you can barely meet your basic needs and can't afford to save a few hundred every month? I feel like I'm destined to die a work -Slave with no children, family, or retirement. living Wage Calc. – if you look at this website and analyze it, most jobs don't pay enough for savings, retirement, or anything outside basic needs. This is despite record profits and unprecedented…


27 yo single Male, I have lived in New York my whole life and am self-reliant with no support, and I feel hopeless looking at these jobs offering $17-$20/hr in a city where the minimum needs to be $24 for the tri-state area. Corporate jobs are no better; they have high requirements for subsistence pay. Retirement will not exist for my generation; people live paycheck to paycheck, and starting a family looks more like a pipe dream. What is the point of working if you can barely meet your basic needs and can't afford to save a few hundred every month? I feel like I'm destined to die a work -Slave with no children, family, or retirement.

living Wage Calc. – if you look at this website and analyze it, most jobs don't pay enough for savings, retirement, or anything outside basic needs. This is despite record profits and unprecedented GDP.

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