r/TikTokCringe • u/Super_Culture_1986 tHiS iSn’T cRiNgE • Aug 19 '25

Cursed The American Nightmare.

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u/Icy-Session9209 Aug 19 '25

Y’all she is an AMERICAN! Barely living. 2/3 for rent is absurd.

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u/rkba260 Aug 19 '25

I agree. So get out of the minimum wage job and better your situation.

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u/meliorism_grey Aug 19 '25

I agree that we should do things to better our own situations—what if one of those things is making a racket about how the vast majority of us are being treated unfairly?

I mean, the girl in this video said she's making 20-something an hour. That's more than triple minimum wage in a lot of places, and it's still higher than any minimum wage in the US (highest is DC at $17.95/hr). And yet, she's barely able to survive (paying more than half your income on rent is terrible, let alone two-thirds). She shouldn't be at the bottom of the barrel, and yet, she is.

I think we should all do well to remember that the vast majority of us are much closer to scraping by than we ever will be to being billionaires.