[TheBlueMarvel]

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Originally Posted by kylactus

No, the job market is booming, if you can’t find a job right now it means one of three things, your unwilling to relocate, you think the job is “beneath” you, or your not looking. A lot of people in this country want to be paid top dollar without putting in a lot of effort, when I was a kid we called this laziness. No one under 30 wants to bust there ass in a factory, they want to make millions playing fortnite, or doing makeup on YouTube. By the way most “poor” families in America have smart phones, air conditioned houses, cable TV, internet, and two cars. If you have those things and cry that you can’t afford insurance, or food you have a priority problem, not a money problem. Walmart manager salary is an adverage of 93,000, so pardon me if I don’t shed a tear for them. And VM, as far as my “privilege” I don’t believe you know me well enough to make this personal, but I will tell you that the little buzz words your lib arts professor told you to parrot don’t impress me.

You are entitled to your opinion, but these are not sentiments that align with reality.

1)We've 330 million people in the US and there are roughly 5K Walmarts - hence 5K managers (maybe). That's a drop in the bucket, man. The math is pretty simple.

2)It's hard to bust one's ass in factories that don't exist anymore. From Flint Michigan, to Modesto California, and back to Brockton Massachusetts - factories have long since dried up. You may think this is a liberal take, however, this is a fact of life that industry has been aware of for 30+ years.

3)What do you know about poor families? If you are speaking from your own personal experience, that's one thing (anecdotal and difficult to extrapolate, as it may be). However, I've worked with many marginalized communities in my time here on earth and what you're saying is simply not the reality for the families that I served. Maybe research actual federal poverty statistics? By the way, you can buy a cheap AC unit from Walmart (Hah) for $70 - hardly a 'daddy warbucks' item...edit quick data points - as of 2016, 13% of the US population was living under the poverty line, that's roughly 43 million. Another 100 million live near that same line, meaning that 140 million Americans (almost half of the nation) live near/at/or under the poverty threshold - those are raw numbers, not opinion, nor political spin - straight data that doesn't exactly support a booming economy.

I'm not trying to blast you, dude. I've actually enjoyed the few convos we've had. I suggest that you step out of your political/cultural bubble for a moment and see that the world is a bit more nuanced than your personal experience might have you believe. No offense intended, of course...and, yes, I do routinely challenge myself to try to understand the other side.

...but I'm also not interested in dragging this convo on.