Comments by "" (@jmitterii2) on "Hillary Clinton Redbaits Bernie On Howard Stern" video.
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@akihitochan When everyone you know and yourself seem to be doing fantastic... everyone else is crazy.
Four years back about 2015, from 2011-15 to that time, my brother and his family were doing quite well, able to buy a home for fairly good price (still expensive in my opinion) in 2011, and things could be better all the way into 2015. I was doomsday person after coming back with a stint in the Air Force, and returning from a college near the Seattle area, and I conveyed what I saw and how terrible the more populated areas have it.
They all thought I was nuts.
Early 2016 my brother was told his plant was going to close that summer.... he was making fairly decent money for just a high school graduate and for Idaho, I think $23 or so an hour, and he had worked there for almost 20 years.
Fortunately, he found some other jobs, all paid less, one paid right at the $20 hour amount. But he felt they were unsafe so he found another place paid much less $15 an hour start off, but better hours and more safer... good thing he quit that place as a guy died at the other place the week after he left.
It's just human nature I think for many to not notice other people or care to if their situation is just fine or fantastic even.
Then there's some who can see it, even if their circumstances are good.
I always felt bad as I made $5 or even $10 more an hour, and couldn't understand those middle aged and older working for $12 or less back in 2000-2009. And many of middle age had the same story, they had a better job, but it got outsourced domestically or abroad.
Always sent shivers down my spine.
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