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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I don’t buy the false bill of goods that Americans would be financially secure if they just skipped designer purses. Republicans have been selling that BS for decades. It’s not true. It’s housing, daycare and healthcare...along with student loan debt.

Unions get workers a fair deal and real security. Bring em back.

And I’m not speaking from envy. My DH and I have good jobs and fight lifestyle inflation. But we’re not willfully blind.

Tucked C is a jerk but his rant had a point. Reform capitalism or watch a socialist tide continue to rise. I’d prefer reformed capitalism myself. [/quote]

[b]Designer purses are upwards of $3k [/b]and the latest iPhone is $1k. $4k actually does go a long way when you live paycheck to paycheck.

Having said that, I agree that wages have stagnated and housing is expensive. But a single, childless low-wage earner can live with roommates. A dual income childless couple can live quite well. [/quote]

No one living paycheck to paycheck is buying a designer purse; they buy a knockoff and tell everyone they bought the real thing.

A new iphone is $1k, but everyone just pays them month to month at $20/month; sure they can probably forgo that and save it, but then it will be eaten up by some medical bill and they will probably still be in debt and stuck with a balky old phone (and to be clear, I keep my phones for ever and am still on an iPhone 6 and we lived with roommates as a couple until we had kids).

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My friend lives paycheck to paycheck and has high credit card debt. She bought an $1800 designer bag. She told me she thought about returning it but since it's sold out she's keeping it.[/quote]

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