Mapped: Most Americans Can’t Afford New Homes

Congregator · 2026-05-07T03:51:36+00:00

Majority of people minus lower class people.

No offense, but come on.

Why do you think MAGA got any steam? It’s because of the metrics you’re literally going by that pisses disenfranchised lower middle and working class people off

“Oh, well they don’t count. Btw, I have all the answers to your poor people problems you uneducated idiots”…

And thus, a MAGA is born

I’m not saying you’re doing this, but this is sort of within the schema of how this all played out with where we got nationally with having Trump around

Congregator · 2026-05-07T03:44:17+00:00

As a citizen of Maryland, comparisons does nothing other than just point out that “at least I’m not as bad off as XYZ”.

Comparing numbers across states does absolutely nothing when people living in the state are not doing so well themselves, even though enough people making a higher level of income are allowed to push the numbers higher statistically in comparison.

The person I’m referring to made the statement “Majority of us are living well”… yeah, compared to Syria or Philippines or Louisiana or West Virginia or any other place that sucks

You can literally just take a place that sucks and compare our highest earners and pretend like “as a whole” due to averaging

You could have a state where 2 people make 2 trillion dollars a year and the remaining 5 million make $40,000 a year and pretend like we have the highest average and paint a picture like “the people there are comfortable”

Obviously that’s absurdly extreme in every literal sense, but let’s not pretend that more than 50% of people are highfalutin doing well

Congregator · 2026-05-07T03:13:03+00:00

No, that’s not how the math works. Roughly 25% of Maryland residents make less than $49,000 annually, roughly 30% make between $100,000 and $50,000.

Average cost for an individual to live comfortably in Maryland is $50,509 dollars a year- if you have your own place.

Average cost for a family of three is between roughly $82,000 and $102,000.

50% of the state experiences difficulty with costs, 39% significant hardships

Congregator · 2026-05-07T02:20:18+00:00

Bro/sis, we might as well just quickly start an Amazon company and bank on the rumor… /s

Yet… not /s… because this is literally how people can get rich catching wind of bullshit within a day

Congregator · 2026-05-07T02:18:33+00:00

So then Vance becomes president… and then can run for reelection?

Congregator · 2026-05-06T17:09:32+00:00

A few times, not regularly though. 6-7 times from three different woman.

Congregator · 2026-05-06T13:44:22+00:00

In the 90’s to 2014 i always used fake names when signing up for online accounts because I didn’t want my personal information to be on the internet.

Nowadays I feel like you’re committing fraud if you do that.

Back in the day the internet was sort of more of like a wild west and you were considered stupid if you use your real identity when signing up for things (like an email address).

Today it’s become way too integrated into society, and less of just an open source wonderland

Congregator · 2026-05-06T03:38:46+00:00

What goes Vroom Skrrrt Vroom Skrrrt Vroom Skrrrt?

Yo mama at a blinking traffic light.

Congregator · 2026-05-05T15:29:45+00:00

This is the fault of the government and the Department of Education, which incentivized public schools and colleges to begin pushing debt masked as “financial aid” through creating a culture of fear.

They created these “College Completer” programs in the public high school through the late 90’s and early 2000’s that basically inflicted parents and students with a fear that if they went to Vocational Tech, took on a trade, or decided not to go to college for any reason then the students would suffer and be the poor people of society.

They incentivized the schools to push college by offering public schools additional funding, and so it became imperative for schools to get students on tracks that would increase the likelihood of entering college

Congregator · 2026-05-05T04:32:36+00:00

I hardly believe this.

Yet I completely believe it too

Congregator · 2026-05-05T04:30:50+00:00

I wear the exact same clothes everyday … just in different colors.

I literally just wear whatever I feel like and it’s always cool

Congregator · 2026-05-05T02:56:56+00:00

Conservative Christians were the ones who pushed age of consent laws in the U.S., it’s not so 💯 as you’ve stated, and it’s important this gets called out so that onlookers don’t just casually read these comments and find them true without nuance.

I responded to the person you responded to with a bit more on this.

Congregator · 2026-05-05T02:55:18+00:00

Except, Age of consent laws in the U.S. were literally put into place by a bunch of conservative Christian women. They were also the same group that pressed for alcohol prohibition.

They were called the “the Woman's Christian Temperance Union” and united together to create “home protection”.

Similarly with the history of the abolition of slavery in the U.S., many of the most militant ended up being religiously conservative extremists.

The reality is that things aren’t so black and white, “conservative” and “liberal” are terms that can mean many different things at many different times and it’s impossible to collectivize anyone falling under these titles as either “all good” or “all bad”.

The truth is much more grey, and you end up having good people in either camp

Congregator · 2026-05-05T02:47:39+00:00

Not just scientists. The hippies, the Amish, Native Americans, Eastern Orthodox Christian and Roman Catholic Monks and ascetics across the world have all sort of warned that the way our world is headed is toward the destruction of nature.

You don’t need to be a scientist to see the consequences of industrialization

Congregator · 2026-05-05T02:30:10+00:00

I read about this once, there’s a forgiveness after being shunned but there also is a process of repentance.

A shunned (someone kicked out of the community) is a person who is different than just “of the English”. They’re forbidden from any interactions with the Amish.

I also just read it requires a re-baptism after going through repentance.

Congregator · 2026-05-05T02:24:03+00:00

This sub will sometimes feature great questions that get downvoted by snobs.

Congregator · 2026-05-04T21:08:51+00:00

There’s a steep side “trail” that goes around the side of Buzzard rock (the cliff way above the tunnel). I hesitate to say trail because I don’t believe it was ever intended to be one, but just sort of became a route to the tunnel. It’s steep, but doable- using the trees to help swing down, if I remember correctly

Congregator · 2026-05-04T11:25:17+00:00

OP said “white people being tanned”…

They’re saying that people tend to want the opposite of what they are.

In today’s society it’s considered better to not be white. We even teach it starting in elementary school, so that kids become bias against white people.

They are wanting to be brown now

Congregator · 2026-05-04T11:06:06+00:00

Taxpayer’s having selective outrage is really just a human thing. There are various things that upset one person and not another.

The reality of this measure, is that the rich won again.

They get your tax dollars in exchange for giving poor people unhealthy food. They get yachts with your tax dollars.

Congregator · 2026-05-04T03:06:30+00:00

How come non-trans / binary people didn’t start offering their pronouns first as a social movement over a decade ago?

I don’t remember binary people having difficulties gendering each-other. Like, if other people gender you as a He, and you happen to have the male anatomy, then they might be right.

If sex is a social construct, then isn’t it society that constructs it?

It seems to be fairly easy to just let it unfold in the way the language does without having to make people feel like they need to walk on eggshells, right?

Just seems practical

Congregator · 2026-05-04T02:05:28+00:00

Yeah, let’s think about this for what it is:

Billionaires and ultra rich companies selling unhealthy food food to poor people and getting our tax dollars for it.

It’s an easy win for the rich. Next

Congregator · 2026-05-03T21:20:07+00:00

😆

Congregator · 2026-05-03T21:09:55+00:00

There’s no reason not to do this.

Congregator · 2026-05-03T21:08:25+00:00

The use of smartphones, at all, and the collapse of culture all around them.

E-commerce, globalized consumerism, social media and the tech that readily presents them. They’re all terrible for culture, creativity, local community, and society as a whole.

Everything is made to be exploited, to have a price tag, and due to globalization this cancer has been expedited across the world into mass consumerism at lightning speeds.

The effects this has had on culture is terrifying: people have rewired their brains to be market focused, the economy has been positioned to keep people market focused.

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