I live in an area where rich people vacation for the entire summer, and let me tell you, this is a banner year for them. Nothing better than driving my rusted out shit box around only to be passed by an entire owners club of Corvettes. The disparity is just amazing.
“Shit’s expensive”
Saved you a click.
Ah, I would have never guessed that’s the reason.
doing the Lord’s work
But it seems like the other half are doubling their travel. It seems like traffic has gotten worse for me, bizarrely since gas prices went up.
Can we start handing out compunding short term bans for posting shit click bait articles like this?
this isn’t just an idea – it’s a good one.
The reason is it costs too much. There, saved you a click.
The article recommends Florida. Having grown up there, I can definitely not recommend a summertime visit unless you want swamp crotch the entire time.
Not to mention the people in Florida are complete and total assholes. Like the whole fucking state is just made up of complete and total assholes.
I spent most of my life there and was finally able to move away. It is true, because even people that don’t want to be assholes need to essentially act in a certain way to not appear weak and invite harassment or worse. It was a literal shock to my family when random people would just smile at them and say “Hi!” in public in other states.
I’m a Floridian.
He’s right.
Sounds like it’s full of people who are complete and total assholes, I bet the whole fucking state is just made up of complete and total assholes.
Most of the state is for sure, and more bizarrely, it attracts these sorts of people to migrate there. I can’t quite wrap my head around it. Florida at least used to be a cheap place to retire, so I understood all the older people moving there. Now it is expensive and far more full of assholes. I dread having to visit there to see my remaining family ever couple of years.
I grew up there, can confirm.
“on the plus side, it’s backward, violent and is growing moreso daily.”
Who wouldn’t want to endure that for $179 round trip?
the Reason Is More Alarming Than Ever
Wow, big surprise, they can’t afford it.
Money doesn’t trickle down in an economy. It trickles up, from the consumer. The optimist in me believes there will be a lot of nepo-babies and business bros who are going to have a 1929-style education.
Money is governed by capillary action
TL;DR - Our trash society is shifting dramatically toward only being beneficial to the “elite” and everyone else is getting too poor to enjoy their lives.
I’m an aerospace engineer and I’ll never retire after spending all this this money on being laid off. 20 years in and I’m losing my job again, and also worth more dead than alive because of life insurance. So do I kill myself in the next few months to take care of my family, or become a burden in a bad situation?
Hopefully you’re joking, but in case anyone is unaware, life insurance doesn’t pay out for suicide.
I don’t know how serious you are, but no. Giving your family the rest of their lives to live with the trauma of a parent’s/SO’s suicide, there’s more than finances at play. My MIL’s father did that about 65 years ago, and I can see echoes of that in her personality today.
Imagine how much more fun it would have been to read this article if the answer was “an aggressive cap and trade program” instead of “endless war and inflation.” It’d be the same amount of not driving somewhere, but with fewer heat waves and catastrophic weather and more gardens and bike lanes.
Do nearly half of Americans even have days to take for vacation?
What do you mean have days? Have vacation time?
Yeah, paid time off.
Twenty-eight million Americans don’t get any paid vacation or paid holidays
The average American worker gets 11 days of paid vacation per year
On average, U.S. workers get eight days of sick leave per year
The average employee in the U.S. receives an average of 7.6 paid holidays
That’s barely enough days to consider traveling.
Yikes, I’m american and just took my 4th week of vacation this year. I also get a few weeks around the holidays.
Is the reason because nobody has any money? Because that’s not all that shocking. This is literally been everyone’s gripe for the last 2 years, ever since the great orange dipshit took office.
I guess I’m one of the lucky few who got to cancel vacation not due to finances, but because of health issues due to shitty luck.
Good for the climate! Thanks, Trumpy.
