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What does it take to be "middle class" in America today? (hexbear.net)
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archive.today • How Americans define the middle-class and why they can't reach it - The Washington Post

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[–] dudes_eating_beans@hexbear.net 8 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I've had this thought for over a decade now. Get my credit to the point where I could borrow like $1m and just disappear to Laos or some shit. I don't have any plans of coming back to this place.

[–] TheDialectic@hexbear.net 5 points 1 year ago

That is essentially what big companies do. So that means it is a viable plan, and probably arbitrarily hard for us