Can confirm that these figures are very inflated. I currently live in Hawaii on half of that “living wage”. Have a nice (by Hawaii standards) 2 bedroom apartment and still have over 1000 in excess income after rent\utils\groceries\gas each month.

112k is around what i would need to be making to afford a house\mortgage, but its possible to “live” without.

I’ve already felt the sting of the protests when googling solutions to various issues. I used to be able to include “reddit” in the search and would almost always find relevant information quickly, but now as OP mentioned many posts and whole communities have gone dark.

It’s all been really eye opening about the potential negative consequences of having so many communities and information in the control of so few.

I think its more likely that the posts on reddit are the same, and we are simply starting to become accustomed to the posts\quality of comments on the fediverse.

Our eyes are finally starting to open.

Top righter reporting in. I won’t change and I’m not sorry.