InevitableSwing [none/use name]@hexbear.net to chapotraphouse@hexbear.netEnglish · 9 months agoWhat does it take to be "middle class" in America today?hexbear.netimagemessage-square54fedilinkarrow-up1116arrow-down10file-text
arrow-up1116arrow-down1imageWhat does it take to be "middle class" in America today?hexbear.netInevitableSwing [none/use name]@hexbear.net to chapotraphouse@hexbear.netEnglish · 9 months agomessage-square54fedilinkfile-text
archive.today • How Americans define the middle-class and why they can’t reach it - The Washington Post
minus-squareTheDialectic [none/use name]@hexbear.netlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up27·9 months agoWhat if my retirement plan is to fix my credit, get a small business loan and defect to Cuba with the money?
minus-squaredudes_eating_beans [any]@hexbear.netlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up8·9 months agoI’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.
minus-squareTheDialectic [none/use name]@hexbear.netlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up5·9 months agoThat is essentially what big companies do. So that means it is a viable plan, and probably arbitrarily hard for us
What if my retirement plan is to fix my credit, get a small business loan and defect to Cuba with the money?
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.
That is essentially what big companies do. So that means it is a viable plan, and probably arbitrarily hard for us