I read that half of Americans couldn’t cover an unexpected $1,000 expense. This sounds crazy to me. I understand that poverty exists, but the idea that an adult with a job doesn’t even have that amount saved up seems really strange.

What’s your relationship or philosophy with money? What do you credit for your financial success, or alternatively, what do you blame for your failures?

For the extra brave ones: how much savings do you have, and what are you planning to do with them?

  • Wes4Humanity@lemm.ee
    21·
    3 months ago

    C’mon man… My list includes 5 jobs that literally save lives… Your figurative life saving can get right outta town

    • qprimed@lemmy.mlEnglish
      4·
      3 months ago

      ok,

      Share of the population using safely managed sanitation facilities

      • 884 million people in the world, approximately 1 in 8, do not have access to safe water
      • 2.5 billion people across the globe lack access to adequate sanitation services
      • 1.4 million children die every year, 1 child every 20 seconds, from diarrhea caused by unclean water and poor sanitation
      • 443 million school days are lost each year to water-related diseases
      • 47% of diarrhea incidents can be reduced by hand-washing with soap at critical times
      • 87% say they washed their hands after using public lavatories
      • 77% actually wash their hands after using a public restroom
      • 46% say they wash their hands for 15 seconds or less
      • 15-20 seconds equals the amount of time recommended for hand-washing with soap and water
      • 200% the average increase in life expectancy at birth since the introduction of modern, indoor plumbing

      above Current Statistics with additional source links

      but, as you said, all of these figurative people can get right outta town.

      plumbers through history have saved countless lives, whether you think so or not. I say they are in the top 5 all-time life saving professions.

      edit: upvoted you cuz you responded :-)

      • ContrarianTrail@lemm.eeOPEnglish
        3·
        3 months ago

        Indoor plumbing indeed is one of those things people hardly pay any attention to untill it stops working. The fact that you can just take a dump, flush and it’s gone is a luxury not even kings had few hundred years back. Cities used to have raised crosswalks so that you don’t have to step into a river of shit when crossing the road (granted that was mosly horse shit)

      • Wes4Humanity@lemm.ee
        2·
        3 months ago

        Okay… I guess maybe I wasn’t thinking of the entire spectrum of sanitation/plumbing workers… Certainly clean water is a life saver