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Warpy

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3. I topped out at $39/hour ten years ago

Reply to yeoman6987 (Reply #2)

Wed Sep 24, 2014, 10:56 PM

Sep 2014

I wasn't living paycheck to paycheck and I was starting to rebuild my savings for the next disaster, which turned out to be legal blindness. (I don't fool around when it comes to disasters)

I was single, though, and had cheap housing I'd bought in 1996 as a hedge to rising rents.

I know work mates who were single with kids at home were struggling, especially if they needed to have paid care for those kids.

Wages were allowed to fall too damned far because billionaires are terrified of inflation. Even though now that I'm retired I'll take a big hit, but things have to reverse.

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It's still not enough to live on Warpy Sep 2014 #1

You are right! yeoman6987 Sep 2014 #2

I topped out at $39/hour ten years ago Warpy Sep 2014 #3