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The average household cable package is now $217.42 per month.

The average household spends $205.50 per month on all major utilities combined (electricity, gas, water, sewage, garbage).

The average household cable package cost continues to increase year-over-year.
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One important thing we found in our research was how relatively expensive a cable bill is compared to other utilities for smaller households. The average cable bill stays relatively similar across household sizes, whether it’s one person living in a small apartment or a family of ten living in a large house. This is not true of utilities like electricity or water, with much wider scales for their average bill size depending on household size.

It’s normal for the average consumer to look into ways to save money on things like their electric or water bills through conservation efforts. But what we still don’t hear discussed more frequently is how to cut costs on what is becoming every household’s biggest utility bill. It’s not as if cable is an optional service anymore, with having internet access in the home being almost as important as electricity at this point.

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Originally posted by second:
One picture says it all:

Distribution of wealth
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Distribution_of_wealth

Since the poor far outnumber the wealthy, the poor could take the wealth back. I'll leave the details for how that could be done to the poor, who need to practice how to think of practical, not theoretical, solutions to their many economic problems and then energetically execute their solutions.

The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at https://www.mediafire.com/two

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Originally posted by 6IXSTRINGJACK:

That is bad behavior patterns. That is the tragedy of the American Public School System's failure to promote responsible behavior patterns as adults. We can't rely on children learning from their parents any good behaviors because chances are much more likely than not that they got a lot of these bad behaviors from their parents who got away with them in better financial times.

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Originally posted by 6IXSTRINGJACK:

That is bad behavior patterns. That is the tragedy of the American Public School System's failure to promote responsible behavior patterns as adults. We can't rely on children learning from their parents any good behaviors because chances are much more likely than not that they got a lot of these bad behaviors from their parents who got away with them in better financial times.

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I would love to read your explanation of who taught Americans working for Amazon to accept whatever lousy wages will best serve Jeff Bezos wealth building plans. Or, as an alternate, why do Elon Musk employees at Tesla accept whatever lousy wages best serve Elon Musk wealth building plans?

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Originally posted by second:
Just to make it clear, 6ix, your solution to greedy rich people refusing to pay their employees a good wage is for the employees to cut back on their expenses until the employees live the impoverished life that Bezos and Musk think is best for their employees. I think the employees should use their unions to change what Bezos and Musk think is best for their employees.

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