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mother-entropy:

sometimes i get so angry about how the housing market bubble bursting led to the economy collapsing and literally never recovering for the middle class. like…basically wiped out the middle class entirely, if we’re being honest.

my bank just offered me a “high yield” savings account. high yield! just a fucking amazing APY! …the APY is 0.4%. zero. point. four.

in 2006, i worked in a call center for $17.60 an hour and had a savings account with a 9% APY. not 0.9%, a full fucking 9%. i’d only been with the call center for a year and a half, i was 24 years old, my credit was middling at best, and that savings account was brand fucking new with a bank i’d NEVER banked with.

high yield. 0.4%.

my field is in-home healthcare now, and i get paid $9.25 an hour.

the fucking rage i feel at what was taken away from my end of my generation (eldest millennial) and fully denied to everyone younger than us is unreal sometimes.

The checking account I use to fund commissions says so much, actually:

100x increase in the daily balance and a… 4x increase in interest earned.

I’m gonna do some more digging. I think i can find the pre crash APY.

Found right at the crash:

mother-entropy:

sometimes i get so angry about how the housing market bubble bursting led to the economy collapsing and literally never recovering for the middle class. like…basically wiped out the middle class entirely, if we’re being honest.

my bank just offered me a “high yield” savings account. high yield! just a fucking amazing APY! …the APY is 0.4%. zero. point. four.

in 2006, i worked in a call center for $17.60 an hour and had a savings account with a 9% APY. not 0.9%, a full fucking 9%. i’d only been with the call center for a year and a half, i was 24 years old, my credit was middling at best, and that savings account was brand fucking new with a bank i’d NEVER banked with.

high yield. 0.4%.

my field is in-home healthcare now, and i get paid $9.25 an hour.

the fucking rage i feel at what was taken away from my end of my generation (eldest millennial) and fully denied to everyone younger than us is unreal sometimes.

syantrix:

»Extinction or eternal redemption, thou must choose.«

ratzeflummi:

ratzeflummi:

ratzeflummi:

i am getting somewhat suspicious of this count dracula. jonathan wrote that he is behaving kinda oddly, and that he is talking as if he’d been there for all of those historic battles centuries ago

what really tipped me off though is that he calls himself “a dracula”, which, yes, could just be referring to a person belonging to house dracula, but dracula is also the romanian word for dragon, and according to some legends dragons can take the shape of a human at will

so currently i’m thinking that our friend jonathan harker might have been imprisoned by a dragon

we have not heard from our friend jonathan in three days, so now i am starting to worry that he has been eaten by the dragon

we have heard from johnny! he has not been eaten by the dragon yet!

however, dracula has been described as moving “just as a lizard moves”, so this is further proof of my theory

thehomebrood:

i mean, vampires can’t enter residences without being invited in, so if you think about it a vampire’s biggest weakness is rejection, which is a big mood