I did a Tik Tok about this before, that capitalism has destroyed the “nuclear family”. I showed a bit of quick math to show it was almost impossible with 1 parent working. Lets do that a bit differently here.
Let’s do “Nuclear Family”, 2 parents both working at median salary, 2 kids, childcare costs, renting, with two cars.
2 Parents Working – Median Household Wage
For ease I’m just using the median household income minus 20% for taxes and divided by 12 because I’m working out the monthly. That comes to $4,500 per month.
Actually I might work it out a little different. Let’s do avg hourly for factory worker at fulltime, Walmart worker at 32 hours (4 days per week) – minus 20% for taxes. (Factory $2,542 and walmart $1,822 per month after taxes). Overall income after taxes is $4,364.
Looking like daycare costs are $175 per week (per kid, in this case lets say just 1 is in daycare) and rent on a 3 bedroom place is easily $1,200.
And healthcare costs. Using that the factory worker parent has to pay $6,000 of the premium which is $500 per month.
Let’s do the Math
$4,364 is the money we have to work with
Monthly Wages $4,364
Guaranteed costs:
Rent $1,200
Childcare $700
Utilities $500
Health Insurance $500
Car Payments $700
Car Insurance $200
Phones x2 $200
Overall Total: $4,000
With just the numbers from so far, you are only left with $364 and you haven’t even fed anyone yet.
So you would also need groceries $600
Gas money ???
Entertainment ???
Car Repairs ???
Insurance Deductibles ???
Video work out for this page
Reworking the numbers. The nuclear family is being destroyed by capitalism #democrat #progressive #rentistoodamnhigh #socialprograms #inflation pic.twitter.com/a8zjvz8UhE
— Is Anyone Left? (@is_anyone_left) March 15, 2022
Original Post on the Nuclear Family
Capitalism destroyed the nuclear family #democrat #progressive #healthcare #rentistoodamnhigh #taxtherich #socialprograms pic.twitter.com/fSJAqZndKF
— Is Anyone Left? (@is_anyone_left) March 2, 2022