Okay, let's start where we agree. If a members of a household work more hours, they'll make more money. From there, we diverge:
- Anecdotalism is great, but Uber drivers average at most $20/hour after expenses, and make far less in most areas, and don't even exist in most of the country. There is tons of data: http://time.com/...eally-make-per-hour/
- Folks don't work hard enough? Disagree, lots of folks work 40-50 hours/week AND travel an hour each way. Folks all over are striving, but there are a lot of places where jobs are scarcer and less than full-time and worse-paying. Two jobs, each 30/week @ $12/hour and you make 36K. A couple both working? Now you can move up. Which leads to my biggest disagreement....
- Two guys working a full extra job so their wife can stay at home??? We've been discussing folks struggling at low-end jobs. The best ways to rise into the middle class is a.) find much better paying jobs (way over minimum wage) and b.) get two folks working. I totally understand the stay-at-home goal, and it can work if one person is pulling in big bucks, but it becomes much less desirable when the prime earner is toiling for 80 hours at ~$10/hour ($40K/year).
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oldandslow: Oct 22, 17 0:41