As I scroll through my blogroll, I have this funny trick that helps me guess the financial status of the authors. The more tragic, desperate and apocalyptic the posts are, the more financially comfortable their author is. And the posts that are optimistic and lack drama-queenishness are invariably written by those who are still trying to become economically comfortable. (Obviously, there are no poor people in the blogroll because blogging requires both leisure and intellectual / educational capital.)
Well-off people surely do like to entertain themselves with imagining all sorts of horrors as they live their problem – free lives. And those who have actual problems see no need to indulge in imaginary ones.
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Clarissa, hate to break it to you, but your trick doesn’t work. People can be comfortable for awhile, but it ends. That’s why the suicide rate is up for persons over age 55 in the US.
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Let’s expect a drop in apocalyptic blogging, then. 🙂
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Poor homeless people can hang out in public libraries where they typically have (limited) free internet access, so there may well be a few poor bloggers.
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I would count myself as a poor blogger. My income last year was only about $10,000 which is very low for a white male with US citizenship and a PhD who has full time employment. It is considerably below US minimum wage.
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One recent analysis (economist at Hofstra if I recall the citation correctly) indicated that 63% of Americans over age 25 will have at least one year of below poverty level income and 43% will have at least one year of below $10,000 in income. The Wall St. Journal reports that corporations are capping salary increases at 3%.
We’re very “equal opportunity.” If you’re not in the top 5% in income (over $350,000 per year), you will have the chance to experience poverty. Cancer is the number 1 route to poverty, as you can be liable for in excess of $250,000 of medical cost after insurance. Further, the CDC says that the typical American will have over $200,000 in uninsured medical expenses after age 65. Our health insurance system can cripple anyone.
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And you are the least whiny blogger ever. My theory works. 🙂
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I assure you one of my lips will fall off any day now … 🙂
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