Y'all wanna see something fucked up
Perfect.
'A house, worth $6,000 before the Depression, was worth approximately $3,900 in 1932.'
And if we use this calculator we can see that $6,000 in 1930 had the same purchasing power as $103,533.83 does in 2023. $3,900= $67,000.
And based on the IRS report for calendar year 1930, the average net yearly income of Americans during 1930 was $4,887.
Let's take note here: houses cost less than a single year of income. on average. during the Great Depression 😃
Do you know what $4,887 income translates to in 2023? $84,328.31
As of 2023 the current average yearly income in the U.S. is $56,940.
If houses cost $103k like they did in 1930 it would take about 3 years of income to pay for. Nearly 3x as long as it would've taken someone during the Great depression to pay for the same house.
But housing prices didn't stay stable either. Those went up, too
Today the average price of a home is $416,000. That would have been $24k in 1930. That's nearly 8x the cost, time, and savings required to purchase a home.
What's that mean?
- ✨ It means if you are not making at least $85,000/year right now then you are factually and measurably doing worse than someone during the Great Depression ✨
- The debt isn't our fault. The recession/depression. Your personal debt. It wasn't. Profit driven industries have been bleeding us dry and still expect us to pay our bills? For college? We were supposed to have more.
- It means every single household in the USA has been robbed of about $30k of generational wealth since 1930.
- It means we are currently in a depression even worse than the Great Depression. This isn't just some seasonal recession.
- It means your budgeting skills aren't the reason you're poor.
- In fact, your grandparents who lived thru the depression probably have no idea what it's like to struggle financially as much as you have.
- It means corporations are trying to normalize us living on the absolute bare minimum. But asking for living wages isn't "greedy," I promise. (See bullet point #1)
What else?
Idk but I think it's very important to note that WW2 is credited for having ended the depression in 1939. I call that bullshit military propaganda. Why?
Because in 1938 FDR enacted the Federal Minimum Wage, saying this quote in his address about it (below) and I'm just wondering what's supposed to get us out if this one.
cuz to be frank Biden is too big of a pussy to do this. And his voters are quick to say "well he's doing his best, at least he ain't trump" and be grateful when he spits $10 into their hands.
Yeah we're in the worst economy possible rn, what a fkn blessing. Anyway, this is what FDR said.
"The idea is simply for employers to hire more men to do the existing work by reducing the work-hours of each man's week and at the same time paying a living wage for the shorter week.
[...] I am fully aware that wage increases will eventually raise costs, but I ask that managements give first consideration to the improvement of operating figures by greatly increased sales to be expected from the rising purchasing power of the public. That is good economics and good business. The aim of this whole effort is to restore our rich domestic market by raising its vast consuming capacity. If we now inflate prices as fast and as far as we increase wages, the whole project will be set at naught. We cannot hope for the full effect of this plan unless, in these first critical months, and, even at the expense of full initial profits, we defer price increases as long as possible. If we can thus start a strong, sound, upward spiral of business activity, our industries will have little doubt of black-ink operations in the last quarter of this year. The pent-up demand of this people is very great and if we can release it on so broad a front, we need not fear a lagging recovery. There is greater danger of too much feverish speed."
Anyone trying to enact this today or saying some of this would be called an extremist.
So what do we do?
- Get comfortable with being called an extremist
- It's just something they say to keep you in line. Look where staying in line got us.
- It means join a union and learn what classism is
- Start demanding shit that you were compromising over before. $15/hr? Nope. Its $40/hr now. DEMAND. not ask. Not compromise. The time for compromise has passed and clearly they were not interested.
- A general strike is a strike that applies to all workers across all industries. I believe even a one day general strike would be effective. It would cost the country billions, let alone the shitty corporations and bosses y'all work for.
- I also believe one day is accessible, as in most people can afford to miss a day of work without severe distress.
- General Strike for better wages
- General Strike for shorter days & weeks
- General Strike for better benefits
- General Strike for more protections
General strike
Lol
I cannot stop laughing at the idea that socialism ignores humanity’s highest spiritual ideal: owning yachts.
I also love the idea that prisoners and slaves have perfectly fine lives where they basic needs are met, but they tragically lack yachts 😔
Stories in His Own Hand: The Everyday Wisdom of Ronald Reagan (2001) [https://books.google.com/books?id=9ut8fnmwVkwC&pg=PA91] edited by Kiron K. Skinner, Annelise Graebner Anderson, and Martin Anderson. p. 91 Post-presidency (1989–2004)
If you live in the US and you have a phone you need to keep secret for any reason, make sure that it is turned off at this time.
Yes, I'm doing this months in advance, and yes, my blog has very little reach, but I figure better to post about it more than less.
Please reblog and add better tags than mine, I'm bad at tags.
OCTOBER 4, 2023
TURN OFF YOUR OTHER PHONE AND DO NOT TURN IT ON AGAIN UNTIL YOU ARE ALONE AND SAFE BECAUSE THE ALARM WILL COME THROUGH AS SOON AS THAT PHONE IS POWERED ON.
AGAIN I REPEAT:
OCTOBER 4, 2023
THE ALARM WILL COME THROUGH AS SOON AS THAT PHONE IS POWERED BACK ON.
SO ONLY POWER IT BACK ON WHEN IT IS SAFE TO DO SO.
OCTOBER 4, 2023
If this doesn't make sense, then good news it's not for or about you but still reblog it because you never know who may need to know this.
Reblog and add more tags.
1993.
Beavis and Butthead was blamed for a tragedy in Moraine, Ohio when five-year-old Austin Messner started a fire that burned down his family’s trailer home, killing his little sister in the process.
The local fire chief explained, “The mother says he had never played with matches or lighters prior to witnessing Beavis and Butthead and laughing about fire being fun. The mother told our investigator that Austin watched Beavis and Butthead all the time and became obsessed with playing with fire. We’re going to ask MTV to remove those segments - and if they won’t do it voluntarily, we’ll go through the powers that be and force pressure on them.”
Years later, when he was a grown man, Austin Messner said, “I literally never saw the cartoon. How could I? It was 1993, my mom was a drug addict, and we lived in a trailer park. We couldn’t afford cable! My mom called the news before the fire department.”
Remember how the world lost its fucking mind over this cartoon? Remember how they forced Mike Judge to rewrite and edit every reference to the word “fire” out of the show?
If you do, it’s time to schedule your colonoscopy. And we need to do a bone scan sooner than we think.
I think one of the most profound forms of love is "I'll try that, for you. I may not like it, but I'll try it."
It's a confused middle-aged man in a pottery class, whose daughter is helping him with his clay's plasticity. It's a kid scrunching up their brow while listening to their mom's favorite music, trying to figure out why she likes it. It's a girlfriend who says "Yes, I'll go with you" and her girlfriend cheering and buying a second ticket for a con. It's a friend half dragging another friend through an aquarium, the one being dragged laughing and calling out "Wait, wait, I know we're here for the exhibit, but I haven't been here! Slow down!"
It's being willing to spend some of your time trying something new because it makes someone you love happy.
