That’s because everyone you know started above the poverty line and was able to leverage to get better return. If you don’t live in a liberal major coastal city, and you aren’t in on the higher end of STEM jobs, (or if you work for or are mainly funded by the government) then you probably haven’t seen your wages even…

If you are making $134K a year, then you’re in the upper echelons of society, so stop thinking you are “the norm” and stop applying your experience to everyone else.

In the same position that you had? Your career sounds like it is doing fine, but that doesn’t make you any good at statistics. Wage and salary only increases based on retention value. This is why lower income industries have seen stagnant wages for a very long time now.

Sounds like a nice bubble you’re living in; it'd be a shame if somebody popped it with their pitchfork (or, more likely, desperation)

How blessed you are, tgoee. We’re all so... proud of your success. I can’t say your personal experience is shared by all Americans but, well done friend. You are what we call “rich”. Congrats on fulfilling the American Dream.

Look, I’m making solid money (slightly less than you) but the average american HOUSEHOLD makes less than you made in 2009.  Your perspective is kind of pointless...

Everyone that I know has seen their wages substantially increase in the last ten years. I made 65k in 2009 and will make 134k this year.

you’re a VERY VERY Small percentage of the population. if you don’t recognize that you need to get your head out of the clouds. not only are your number FAR FAR higher than most americans, doubling your wage in this time period is nigh impossible. 

Congratulations on being completely fucking clueless about the rest of the world outside of your tiny little circle of jerks

Here’s an example of intelligence having nothing to do with how much money one makes

congrats! that’s not the case for the vast majority of people.

Yeah, you’ve got a big ole anecdotal evidence and that-one-kind-of-fallacy-I-cant-remember messing with your compelling argument there.

What industry are you in, what area do you live in, is there a straight line in wage growth, do you own the means of production, whats your annual cost chart look like, what exactly is…

Or just, I dunno, play for fun rather than to get the best of everything? It’s a weird concept, I know.

Counterpoint: Stop adding the “Man-” prefix to everything you don’t like. You’re doing nothing but making a gender issue out of something that has nothing to do with gender. Your examples of “Manthreading” (ugh) aren’t even directed at or about women. They’re just people breaking up their lengthier thoughts on…

nah

Only if they get rid of Skye and Lincoln. Bobbie and Hunter are my favorites too, but AoS *was* too crowded.

Beyond annoyed they took two of the best characters off AoS to do NOTHING with them.

Worst show you’d never seen?

“Why DC Superhero Movies Suck"

Step one: Smash everything