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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]You think a Walmart worker is pulling down 70k? My goodness. [/quote]

+1 I almost choked on my coffee. Not sure how much OP thinks Walmart employees make per hour? Even if they made $16 (at the high end) it would be $30K per year. A two-income household would still be within 45-60K.

https://www.usatoday.com/story/money/2020/11/06/how-many-people-work-at-walmart-in-each-state-and-what-they-are-paid/42993851/[/quote]

And there is no paid time off, so if you miss work, you don't get paid.[/quote]

And most retail places don't guarantee 40 hrs a week! They will give you one hour less than whatever your state requires for benefit eligibility (e.g. in MA 15 years ago, my 3 crappy jobs gave me 8-19 hours a week, but never over 19, and I had to quit the one with the least hours because they weren't consistent and I couldn't coordinate schedules with the 2 other jobs).

Hiding money under the mattress. Good lord, OP. [/quote]

And OP’s ignorance and entitlement is the reason why I continually share with my 16 year old how the average person lives in the US. My kid had no idea how much the average person makes at their job, average household income, average home prices, how much colleges costs, etc. Understandable because he lives in a bubble. [b]I even understand why my husband, who comes from a working class family, tells me that he is secretly jealous of our children. Nothing wrong with living the good life or aspiring to live a good life but we need to realize that we live our lives in a bubble[/b].[/quote]
+1 same boat.

I tell my kids how I grew up, and they have come to appreciate how much we have done for them.[/quote]

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