Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I doubt many people on here are underclass.

The line between 500k (solidly middle class) and permanent poverty is thin indeed.

More BS. Sigh.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I doubt many people on here are underclass.

The line between 500k (solidly middle class) and permanent poverty is thin indeed.

Not middle Class.

Anonymous wrote:https://www.nytimes.com/2026/04/30/opinion/ai-labor-work-force-silicon-valley.html

What strategies are you embarking on to make sure you and your family are going to escape the permanent underclass?

Lol.

Are you the blogger writer posting this here?

No one cares about an AI-written, overly long article from a 24 yo substack blogger.

Go get your clicks elsewhere. So should NYT online but whatever; they used to be 90% blogger OpEd BS.

My husband and I really struggle with this because he says strive strive strive so that our kids dont get left in the underclass and I perceive that the underclass is already created and actually the people doing the most harm is those who are UMC. Like many of the posters on this particular post, they are driving the wealth inequality and THINK they are moving themselves out of the underclass but are driving the consolidation of the super wealthy. And then vote in the interest of the super wealthy. So why strive strive strive just to be in the same position?

Anonymous wrote:Already out of it. I always knew I was getting the heck out. I could do it again, but much faster this time.
My grandparents and parents would have been rich if they had been born in US. The way they worked and never spent, is unreal. They couldn't buy assets.

Yes, many peoples immigrated to USA for freedom to buy land and freedom to practice any religion.

Anonymous wrote:

What strategies are you embarking on to make sure you and your family are going to escape the permanent underclass?

Avoid a life of crime.

Look, half this country is illiterate so they need to either get smarter or do something legal and manual for a very long time.

Unskilled, uneducated, illiterate labor pool in America- whether from ESOL needy economic illegal migrants or broken welfare families - has been around in a pretty big segment since the various expansions of welfare, snap/ food stamps, section 8 housing, medicaid. Entitlements and entitlement attitude really went up during COVID stimulus….

So that underclass and the illiterate underclass need a lot of efforts

Athletes are doing well

More time for the arts too.

Let AI do your mundane excel and summary writing work so you can do more thinking work with their outputs. It’s just like a faster, stronger computing stats software, very handy.

Anonymous wrote:https://www.nytimes.com/2026/04/30/opinion/ai-labor-work-force-silicon-valley.html

Thx for the OpEd. What about it? OpEds are a dime a dozen in party “mass media”, online non experts, and everywhere.

The days of Brokaw and Cronkite are long over; journalists are basically oped bloggers doing sloppy sloppy “work” in a compressed time frame race with another blogger.

Don’t be a “journalist.”

Anonymous wrote:https://www.nytimes.com/2026/04/30/opinion/ai-labor-work-force-silicon-valley.html

What strategies are you embarking on to make sure you and your family are going to escape the permanent underclass?

Get educated k-12
No addictions
No big debts
Stay out of trouble
Work hard
Live within means
Set boundaries w toxic family members
Relocate if necessary

Good argument for why we shouldn’t give up our guns. A well armed populace is the last line of defense against tyranny, whether economic, political, or both. Whether it comes from a left wing or right wing government.

Anonymous wrote:Just because you have a lot of money does not mean you have class. There are plenty of examples of people with underclass behavior living an upper class life and vice-versa.

That’s not the topic of this discussion.

Just because you have a lot of money does not mean you have class. There are plenty of examples of people with underclass behavior living an upper class life and vice-versa.

My parents came from families that were as poor as dirt. My mom’s family raised rabbits in the backyard for food.

They both joined the Army at 18 and then went to college.

I’m not saying “go military” is the best route. But there are routes.

Grew up in the projects, worked my way through college, took a little longer, 5 years for undergrad. Worked at the university after graduation for tuition credits to get my masters degree. Got a job took advantage of 401K and matching employer dollars. Invested well and now a multimillionaire.

Was it easy, no. Does it take discipline and commitment, yes. Can almost anyone do it, yes.

Anonymous wrote:It takes money to make money; all apps posting about “investing” and “renovating” and “hoarding” are not underclass. Underclass people pay penalties for being underclass, and therefore cannot find a way out. Throw in some classism, racism, gatekeeping, voicelessness, and general antipathy toward the poors, and there’s your recipe for no escape.

+1 the people at risk of being the permanent underclass are minimum wage workers with little savings or fallback.