Don’t feel bad greensd, if you spend your free time reading financial and math related blogs the liklihood that you will remain in the 30k bracket is fairly low.
See, that’s exactly what I’m talking about. I have a PhD. I’ve published in math journals. I’m a university professor, one step away from getting tenure. I don’t think anything I learn from you clowns is going to increase my income. I don’t have a lower income than you because I’m lazy or ignorant, and nothing I do (short of changing careers) is going to substantially increase my income. Hell, we had to threaten to go on strike to get a 3% cost of living increase. And, you don’t have a higher income than me because you’re hard-working and smart.
Seriously, you should come talk to some actual people who make $30,000/yr. Most of them are incredibly hard-working and, despite not having much education, pretty savvy about how things work. The growing income disparity in this country is only going to get worse, and it’s going to bite us all. Nobody cares how rich the rich are, as long as the not-rich have enough to be comfortable. When I decided to go into the professing business, it was still something that would support a middle-class lifestyle. You’d never get rich, but you’d do fine. Not anymore. When you’ve got a large fraction of the population watching their standard of living steadily decline, blathering about NASCAR isn’t going to help.
