I get 40 hours of sick time off per year that I can use for vacation. This is the New York State minimum that had to be fought for.

I tried reading the rest of the comments on this post but I think my soul broke, I wanted to reply to multiple of them but the words just didn't come to me

Two weeks? If you're middle to upper middle class, sure. If you're lower middle to lower class, you'll get a week, if anything at all, unpaid. Sick? Unpaid. Spouse died? Unpaid. What, give people welfare? Not on my tax dollar, that's communism!

The US stopped being the land of opportunity two generations ago, and only now people are starting to realize.

Highschool needs to teach financial literacy. $200 a month for insurance is insane. I pay that for 3 vehicles on full coverage (older trucks and suv, but damn).

Not saying this guy is wrong to be pissed but I see a lot of people who just don't understand how to shop around for shit and just eat the cost.

I agree with him though, we need single payer and mass transit.

Edit: also the further I get into this. The more I think we need to single payer so he can go to therapy, cause he's depressed as hell.

I mean, you're not wrong.

I grew up poor, in the US, mom had 0 cooking skill, mac and cheese and sliced hot dogs was pretty common.

I can try to spin that positively as 'at leasr I have more experience being broke than most people who are new to being broke', lol.

I mean it's just some pasta and seasoning that you add beef to, it's not even that weird

My youth prepared me for this and my post-schooling education helped me minmax for it.

I was about to say, hot dogs are more expensive per pound than ground beef. Do people generally know what ingredients go into hot dogs?

Lasagna, except way grosser.

It's cheap pasta with a sauce you add hamburger to.

What retirement?