• UnspecificGravity@piefed.social
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    I don’t disagree with the sentiment, but only in America do people view having a job and ONLY enough money to pay all your bills and keep you alive to be a fate equivalent to death.

        • I don’t think anyone specified that all their bills are being paid. That phrase paycheck to paycheck means they are on the brink or under and they are not really making enough money to cover their lives which is why Americans have such high levels of debt.

          Where I live in Mexico people want to be rich and just making enough money to pay bills sucks

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      Living paycheck to paycheck in the US often means working over full time hours across a few part time jobs and still not always being able to pay all the bills every month. No one should be ok being a wage slave no matter where they live in the world.

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      enough money to pay all your bills until you have to pay for a medical issue.