Quote from: Wexnident on Today at 08:13:31 AM

Quote from: alani123 on January 18, 2024, 12:12:39 AM

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Definitely. If you're not working in an industry where salaries get increasingly better over time like in tech, you'd be hard-pressed to even find the time to save up even a bit for emergencies, let alone save up for anything big like cars, houses, etc. It's not impossible to live yes, but getting beyond that would be the hard part.

Even the tech industry is kind of in a position right now that had to fire hundreds of thousands of workers. So it's not a sector where job growth is currently increasing. Many young people that were hopeful to a career got fired and have to start over in a market where ghost jobs are a thing now... All this happening while everything becomee more expensive and salaries remain stagnant. This has contributed to even so called "middle class" incomes from a decade ago not being able to save much if anything in the last few years.