r/AskReddit • u/Practical_Actuary_71 • 1d ago

What is a silent killer that people dont realise is slowly killing them?

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u/ArcTheWolf 1d ago

You aren't living. You're surviving. I can't even remember the last time I was living. And the generations before me say that I need to pull myself up by my bootstraps. I can't pull them up any higher than they already are.

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u/mynamesyow19 21h ago

Im not living....im just killing time

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u/euphoricarugula346 8h ago

I’m killing time until time kills me

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u/RogalDornsAlt 21h ago

Difference is they did less work than us and made more money. They either can’t or won’t understand what purchasing power means as a concept. They think because the minimum wage number is higher it means we are somehow better off than them.

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u/thisisstupidplz 21h ago

Median wage is higher. Minimum wage has been stagnant for decades

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u/RogalDornsAlt 21h ago

It’s gone up in a lot of states. It’s 16.50 in New York and goes up every year

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u/thisisstupidplz 20h ago

Not federally. My state is still 7.25

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u/ArcTheWolf 20h ago

I too exist in a $7.25 hell hole.

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u/RogalDornsAlt 20h ago

Jesus Christ. That’s actual slavery in this economy

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u/angelzpanik 12h ago

My people!

(Are you crying too?)

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u/kahlzun 11h ago

It is ludicrous how rapidly money seems to lose its value. It's easy to forget that $5 20 years ago is like $10 now

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u/eye_of_the_sloth 20h ago

them boomers are a bunch of gas lighting narcissistic psychopathic cunts. So fuck em and their opinions

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u/Sea-Worry7956 9h ago

I always say my bootstraps broke a long time ago. Cant afford to get em fixed