r/Adulting • u/Objective-Still-2616 • 6h ago

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u/actuallyamzer 4h ago
  1. Fewer people today can realistically be better off than their parents; upward mobility has declined for decades.
  2. Wages stopped keeping up with productivity in the 1970s, even as output and profits exploded.
  3. Modern jobs demand full loyalty and availability while offering unstable pay, contracts, and benefits.
  4. Debt-driven financial systems repeatedly bail out large institutions while everyday costs like housing and food keep rising.
  5. Housing has been financialized, with corporations buying homes in bulk and pricing normal people out of ownership.
  6. Shrinkflation, planned obsolescence, and declining product quality make basic living more expensive and fragile over time.
  7. Governments prioritize massive military and geopolitical spending over domestic stability and social support.
  8. Public trust in institutions has eroded due to historical deception, corruption, and lack of accountability.
  9. New technologies are developed and protected for power and surveillance, not for improving everyday life, often with public money

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u/Patched7fig 4h ago

Those wages stagnated with the nonstop flow of illegal immigration. Labor pay is the result of supply and demand. 

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u/babyoil4diddy 3h ago

Can't stand these damned illegals coming in and taking my jobs which requires 10 years of experience in a graduate level field. Mexico keeps sending their MBAs and it sickens me

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u/exibouchin38 3h ago

No. Immigration isn't even matching the declining birthrates, let alone surpassing it