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Survey: More Than 1 In 4 Americans Feel They Need To Make $150,000 Or More To Live Comfortably (www.bankrate.com)

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[–] stinky@redlemmy.com 20 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Feelings are important because without them, there would be a concrete number of dollars at which a person starves to death. One more dollar and they live. Once we know that number, the right wing will begin pushing everyone towards it.

Feelings are important because I want to enjoy a twinkie every now and then. I want to be able to afford a day off for mental health, or a friend's birthday. There should be healthy ambiguity in the number of dollars it costs to live because without it there's just near-starvation.

[–] ArgumentativeMonotheist@lemmy.world 0 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Wanting a Twinkie here and there and a new iPad/car every year is very different. What you want is found pretty much anywhere that isn't touched by imperialism and war in general, lol. But maybe the average American can't be happy and comfortable without many expensive toys? Or life is just expensive AF invariably there, idk.

[–] stinky@redlemmy.com 1 points 1 day ago (1 children)

The article mentions "living comfortable" as "financially secure". Financial security generally means having enough money to comfortably cover your current living expenses and future financial needs, without undue worry about money.

[–] ArgumentativeMonotheist@lemmy.world 1 points 1 day ago

Mmm. I guess academic and medical debt are scary by themselves, and that's a very American experience I completely forgot about...