lol, this comment tells you everything about the average hn commenter...
If the vast majority of people are in the group, is it not an easy group to be a part of?
Well based on the number of friends I have that work multiple jobs and can't afford anything more than a room and basic necessities, that's not a very useful perspective.
Because I think those aren't really necessities, yet the average person in the US has them. We're just quite spoiled in the 21st century, and many would argue (including clearly OP) that the reason for this abundance is (at least in part) free market capitalism.
People complain about needing to work to live, but that has always been the case. The difference is now you can work reasonable hours (40/week) doing a low-skill job and still have all those things.
If you want to consider that "spoiled" you're more than welcome to, but it doesn't change decades of increasing wealth inequality, nor the fact that we have no choice but to live in the 21st century.
> The difference is now you can work reasonable hours (40/week) doing a low-skill job and still have all those things.
My point is that that's no longer possible to achieve this with just 40 hours.
Not sure I understand what you mean about "choosing" to live in the 21st century. Yes, you didn't choose the century, but lucky you, you got born into the one with more baseline access to material wealth for the average person than any other century before it. Sucks to be us, eh?
Your final point is objectively untrue. I don't know what your friends do but there are many (not highly-skilled) jobs that pay enough to easily afford all the listed things.
It depends on the wealth curve, obviously, and how the rest of the market is structured. But in neither scenario are you going to see the problems of wealth inequality relaxed. Wealth inequality doesn't seem to offer society any benefit and creates the problem of poverty.
you're just straight up lying now or just don't care about objective facts &/or reality
Working a job doesn't strictly correspond to making a profit, aka making money in the true sense of the phrase.