$133k doesn't buy nearly as much as it used to. And it depends on where you live.

"upper class" never meant a relative income percentage. It has always meant a lifestyle. "Upper middle class " means you can afford a three or four bedroom house in a safe location with good schools, that you can absorb a series of financial shocks like dead appliances and car accidents without trouble, that your whole family has decent health insurance, that you can choose to go on vacation every year to a foreign country and still save for retirement. And so on. Wealth capture to the very rich has made us all poorer.

Are you seriously claiming the economy has improved in the past few years?

> It isn't anyone's fault but your own if you accept a too-low offer.

If the alternative is starvation and the offer is too low because of a manipulated economy it absolutely is someone else's fault.

This not the highest fuel prices have been. They're doing this now because they know you'll blame Trump instead of them. And they get to do it because the FTC has been totally defanged. It has nothing to do with Trump or oil. Sheeple indeed.

I kind of believed it the first, second, and third time the anti-Musk crowd called him a fraud. Then I saw him pull off serial miracles and learned the Epstein group had Gates short Tesla stock for a billion at its most vulnerable.

It's not about smoking. It's about what the government is allowed to tell you what and what not to do.

>I don't approve of x, so I'm happy that my liberties are being restricted You may not regret this, but your children will hate you for it.

If your face is being transmitted, the fact that it's being translated into "tokens" first is no more relevant than that it's being translated into bits first. Your image is being sent to a company that sells the information one way or another.

There isn't unlimited time to debate every point while our oligarchy rapes kids and starves the poor.

Rest in peace MJ Rathbun

I had a Visio monitor. It was very well designed.

This is from the Kurtzman school of film. Virtue signal, create woke garbage, and anyone who doesn't like it is ist. The purpose is demoralization, not money-making.

You sound like a naive, teamism-consumed person.

If your children do not grow up free, they will not grow up safe.