Comments by "American Dissident" (@americandissident9062) on "CNBC" channel.

  1. ER nurse here. My premium is $750, and my copay to use the ER is $500. I can’t afford to use the ER I work in.
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  2. Literally impossible.
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  3.  @af3893  Pretty easy to pay for your citizen’s healthcare when the US is footing the bill for your national defense.
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  4. It’s because they’re easy to replace. Their degrees are not difficult or unique, and they can easily be replaced. You get paid based on how easy it is to find someone with the same qualifications. Teachers are important, but not hard to replace.
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  5. So many people all over the US are talking about this but no one is doing anything about it.
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  6. When they talk about “earning” $230k a year, are they talking about gross? Or income? Take home pay? Or pre-tax?
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  7.  @specialk22tt  Start at. Start at. That’s the problem. When buying a car, no one ever gets the “starting at” price after all the fees and other things are factored in. Even if you get the base model, it’s still never just the starting at price.
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  8.  @ravenandthestranger It’s a low end price for a new car.
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  9.  @mnj640  The price of EVs are not trending down. The price is not going up as fast as traditional vehicles, but it’s not going down. The price is going up slower because the demand for them is still lower.
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  10. Not sure I trust them to teach it. They’ll teach that you HAVE to get a student loan to go to college or you’ll be poor, and they’ll teach that debt is just how you get things.
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  11. The US doesn’t have real hunger. Africa has real hunger.
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  12. You don’t measure the financial gap by tracking it from Paleolithic times through today. You track it from the Industrial Revolution through today, and that’s the absolute furthest back you’d want to go. It’s probably more accurate and demonstrative of what’s happening if you track it only from the early 90’s until today. In the early 90’s boomers and gen X were still pretty young and millennials were children. Now millennials are turning 40. People don’t want to track it that way though because it leaves them with only ONE conclusion: The millennial generation was robbed of their opportunities for wealth before they came of age in the early 2000’s. 9/11 and the subsequent wars put the American economy in the coffin, 2008 was closed the lid of the coffin, and Covid was the final nail in the coffin. And these are the major events (plus the proliferation of the internet) that define our generation. There is no recovery. Only struggle.
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  13. People need to stop associating QQ with Gen Z. It was millennials who started it, and called it “acting your wage.” It’s the same exact thing. We still have a bunch of Gen Zers who aren’t even old enough to work yet. The oldest Millennials are turning 40. Way more millennials working, and quiet quitting, than Gen Z. But this is something Millennials and Gen Z should get together on. It’s a good thing. I noticed years ago that I was the guy who would always pick up those little bits of extra responsibility and work in my job. I made sure I was the guy managers could trust with little extras. If they needed someone’s help, they asked me. I made myself more valuable to them. After years of doing that, I noticed that I wasn’t receiving ANYTHING that my colleagues weren’t also getting. I was just doing more work and taking more responsibilities and getting nothing at all in return. I wasn’t even expecting raises for it. But I was hoping for more than nothing at all. So now I’m the guy who clocks out on time, does what my job description demands, and I forget my workplace exists when I leave.
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  14. It’s CNBC. All they know is how to sell ads.
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  15. Know it’ll get better? How do you know it will?
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  16.  @TimothyWhiteheadzm  If you think this is capitalism, then go back to school. The healthcare sector is the biggest part of the US economy and its largely controlled by the government by regulatory agencies and big wigs who move between “private” and government jobs every few years. When a big insurance company tells the hospitals what they will and and will not do, and the insurance company chairman is going to be the director of CMS for the government in five years, and the person he replaces is going to replace him as the insurance company CEO, and then five years later they’re going to play musical chairs again… That’s not capitalism.
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  17. The rich man has many problems. The starving man has only one problem. But…
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  18. Inequality is growing but you can bet that CNBC isn’t going to tell you the truth about why that is.
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  19.  @joshuabushman7  Same for the shortage of nurses. Pack more kids into classrooms and save money on teachers. It’s not hard. I mean, you don’t really think teachers are hard to find? You only need a simple bachelor’s degree in any subject. That’s a very common qualification in the US. Nurses are everywhere as well. Just load more patients onto each nurse and save money on nurses.
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  20.  @traceysweeney5787 If you ask the old people, us young people are spending all of our time on TikTok. Which isn’t true.
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