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minus-squareBlanketsWithSmallpox@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up7·edit-26 months agoDepends on if you can’t live comfortably or not still. The official poverty rate in the USA was 11.4% in 2020 with 37.2 million people under the poverty line. I’d wager many of them might not hold a job due to having young children as well. https://www.yonkerstribune.com/2021/11/slave-wages-what-are-slave-wages Out of the homes, 38 could be considered low income, 44 middle income and 18 high income. https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2022/07/household-income-distribution-wealth-inequality-united-states/ So nearly 1/3 of Americans would be wage slaves by the latter. Even worse for those under the poverty line.
Depends on if you can’t live comfortably or not still.
The official poverty rate in the USA was 11.4% in 2020 with 37.2 million people under the poverty line. I’d wager many of them might not hold a job due to having young children as well.
https://www.yonkerstribune.com/2021/11/slave-wages-what-are-slave-wages
https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2022/07/household-income-distribution-wealth-inequality-united-states/
So nearly 1/3 of Americans would be wage slaves by the latter. Even worse for those under the poverty line.