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Does anyone recall how Facebook's booming growth coincided with the growth of Zynga? A game genre which asked you to have a bunch of friends to get ahead, otherwise pay to win. (aka. a lot of people signed up for fake accounts)

The recent US employment numbers have a similar stink, as it's impossible for the vast majority of people to survive off a single job's income, especially when little to none of them are offering full-time or benefits. The talk of a recession hasn't started, but it's here, if not something far far worse.



> it's impossible for the vast majority of people to survive off a single job's income

The average employed American earned $928.74 a week in May of 2018 [1]. That's over $46,000 a year [2]. That's a livable wage. In the same month, labor force participation for Americans over 16 was 62.7% [3].

So a majority of Americans have jobs, and the average job pays over twice the poverty rate for a family of three to four [4]. The vast majority of Americans can survive off a single job's income.

[1] https://www.bls.gov/news.release/empsit.t19.htm

[2] 928.74 * (52 - 2) includes 2 weeks' vacation

[3] https://data.bls.gov/timeseries/LNS11300000

[4] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poverty_in_the_United_States#R...


Thanks for the data. I know very few people who legitimately have more than one job and I grew up in a poor household. We got by.


You're talking about 10-30 years ago. Not today.


That's fair to say. A bit of a logical oversight on my end :)


How many people do you know who work in the service industry?




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