“Why don’t you just save for a mortgage, it’s cheaper than renting” Okay, here we go… As a single person in the US this is the situation for a lot of people. Lets say your take home pay is $3,000 Rent: $1,200 (the very low end), Utilities: $250, Electric included. $1,550 left. Just to live somewhere. Food: $350 a month and that’s being generous. $1,200 left. Car insurance and fuel for getting to work: probably another $400. $800 left. Phone bill: $80. $720 left. WiFi - $60. $660 left. This is the best case scenario, you have no unexpected bills or things to pay out. But let’s face it. That $660 will end up getting spent here and there. There’s going to be nothing left to save. Apparently we’ve got it easy though, says a generation who could buy a house and raise a family from a one income minimum wage job. We live in a country where wages are barely covering minimum living requirements.

BOOMER: “Nobody wants to work anymore.” ME: “The warehouse down the road pays $18 an hour.” BOOMER: “That’s good money.” ME: “Average rent is $2,200.” BOOMER: “Get roommates. Work overtime. Stop complaining.” Funny how every “solution” demands workers lower their standards, kill their free time, and live like broke college students forever. But nobody ever tells corporations to pay enough to survive.

My apartment in 2004 was $500 a month. Adjusted for inflation, it should be around $900 today. I looked it up... it's now $2,700. And they still want to blame young people for buying coffee and avocado toast? No. What's crushing this generation is greed, skyrocketing rent, and a system that keeps making survival more expensive.

I need business owners to stop misclassifying employees as independent contractors. If you have set hours they have to work, give them specific intructions to follow, make them report to a supervisor, give them an ongoing role in your company (not a project), restrict who else they can work with, and set their pay rate and pay dates...they are an employee.

Tomorrow, Elon will become the world’s first trillionaire. On paper of course. That number looks like this: $1,000,000,000,000. Elon is currently 54 years old. Assuming he will be a centenarian, or someone who lives to 100, and assuming his $1T never grows a penny more after tomorrow (ha ya right), he will need to spend $21.74B a year until death to draw the $1T down to $0. Or $59.56M a day. Or $2.481M an hr. Or $41,360 a minute. Imagine that…

This man stole a tank from the military and took it on a 23 ton joyride through San Diego. In 1995, Shawn Nelson climbed a fence at a California National Guard armory and found an M60 tank. To everyone’s surprise, he managed to start it. Then he drove straight into the city. Cars were crushed. Traffic signs were flattened. Police cars chased him while news helicopters broadcast the entire thing live. Millions of Americans watched the spectacle unfold in real time. For nearly an hour, one man in a stolen military tank brought a major city to a standstill. The incident became one of the strangest police chases in American history. Most people steal cars. Shawn Nelson stole a tank.

The American Dream in 2026: Work all month. Get paid. Feel relieved. Pay rent. Pay bills. Do a food shop. Fill the car up. Back to being broke. Repeat until retirement. Apparently this is what success looks like now.

Minimum wage in 2005 was $5.15 and a Snickers bar was 75 cents. One hour of work got you 6 of them. Fast forward to 2025, federal minimum wage is $7.25 and that same Snickers is $2.00. Now one hour of work gets you 3. That’s a 41% rise in pay but a 167% rise in a candy bar. If wages had kept up with the price of Snickers, minimum wage would be $13.75 an hour. The economy’s cooked and yes I’m measuring it in candy bars. But this post is about more than that. Too many people are working full time and can’t afford to live because absolutely everything is increasing faster than wages. Something needs to change.

5% of your food bill is profits for billionaires. 40% of your Energy and Fuel bills are profits for billionaires. 60% of your Rent is profit. 20% of your Mortgage is profit for billionaires. 40% of your wage is taken as profit for billionaires. This is what they are costing YOU

If working full time actually paid the bills, most of us would be chilled. You can work your absolute hardest and still end up broke a week after payday. You can't win. Food costs a fortune, rent is ridiculous, and wages haven't moved since dial up internet. Full time workers shouldn't be living paycheck to paycheck but here we are, living in a country where you work nonstop and have nothing to show for it.

Crazy how in 2026 it takes two full time incomes to barely keep up with what one income used to provide. Our grandparents bought homes, raised families, took vacations, and still had time to sit down together for dinner. Now people are stressed out over groceries, childcare costs that feel like a second mortgage, and bills that never stop coming. At some point we all just accepted this as normal.

This man won $31,000,000 because his wife told him to return orange juice. In 2018, Tayeb Souami bought a bottle of orange juice. His wife wasn’t happy. The same juice was cheaper at another store and she told him to return it. While making the return, Souami noticed a Powerball sign. On a whim, he bought two tickets. The next day he stopped at a convenience store to check them. One of those tickets was worth $315 million before taxes. The entire chain of events started because someone wanted to save a few dollars on orange juice. A refund turned into one of the most profitable errands in American history.

My wife is a Registered Nurse. She’s been a nurse for damn near 20 years. Probably the best nurse I know. And I know a lot of nurses because my mom was a nurse. My sister was a nurse. When I tell you I’m middle class, this is what the f*ck I mean. My wife has been taking care of people for almost two decades and she still doesn’t make $100,000 a year. And before somebody starts clutching their pearls, $100,000 ain’t shit anymore. Not with these grocery prices, insurance prices, housing prices….and everything else. To make it even better, she has to pay every year to renew her license. She literally has to pay for permission to keep doing a job she’s already proven she’s qualified to do…and makes bs pay. And then politicians like Ashley Moody helped strip nurses of their professional status in Florida. What the f*ck. Nurses can’t catch a break. Pay nurses more. Pay teachers more. Pay the people who actually keep this country running. If you’re not making $100,000 a year these days, you’re barely scraping by… Pay nurses $100,000. Pay teachers $100,000. Quit f*cking around.

1995: Dads worked one job, averaged 40-45 hours a week, bought a home for 3x their Salary, and still had weekends with their kids, dinner at the table, and time to breathe. 2026: Dads are working 50-60 hours. homes cost 8x their salary, friendships are almost nonexistent, and daycares are raising the kids. We lost the balance God intended for family.

"Why don't Millenials do-" Money. "Why isn't Gen-Z." MONEY. "Why" MONEY. NO ONE HAS ANY MONEY. THAT’S WHY INDUSTRIES ARE DYING, WHY “KIDS” AREN’T DOING ANYTHING, AND WHY NO ONE OWN’S SH*T ANYMORE, WE’RE BROKE AS F*CK AND TIRED OF THESE GOD DAMN “ARTICLES” ACTING LIKE WE’RE DOING THIS ON PURPOSE. AS IF WE WANT TO LIVE THIS WAY.

The job market right now: 500 applicants, 1 role. - AI screens you out in 4 seconds. - a recruiter glances for 6. - a hiring manager interviews for 30 minutes and forgets your name by Friday. And we wonder why people are burnt out before they even start working.

Just an opinion but: I DONT CARE IF YOU'RE FLIPPING BURGERS, I DONT CARE IF YOU'RE FIXING CARS, I DON'T CARE IF YOU'RE PICKING UP TRASH... IF YOU WORK 40 HOURS A WEEK DOING ANYTHING THATS CONSUMING YOUR TIME FOR MONEY YOU DESERVE TO BE PAID A LIVABLE WAGE. You're a human being and your time is valuable regardless of what you're doing to make endsmeat. Personally I dont even know why this has to be a serious topic of discussion...lt just shows you how little people actually care about others.

The biggest scam in life: Paying taxes on money you make, taxes on money you spend, and taxes on things you own, that you already paid taxes on, with already taxed money.