Many Americans’ bank accounts are on life support.
Some 40 percent of consumers were living paycheck-to-paycheck out of necessity in December 2025, according to a recent survey of 2,465 people from financial data and news site PYMNTS. The sheer number of those waiting on their next paycheck to cover expenses signals a troublesome financial reality for many.
Living paycheck to paycheck – using most of a paycheck for necessities with little or no money left over for savings – became more prevalent as the year went on, PYMNTS found. Some 29 percent of consumers entered 2025 barely surviving on their paychecks, and that number jumped 16 percentage points by December.
“Consumers”
They had a focus group, and it turns out “Economy Slaves” wasn’t viewed as highly as anticipated…
We are definitely evolving a new kind of slavery. Lower class americas will live in squalor and toil greatly for near zero capital, with no hope of escape, and vicious repression, tracking, and threats to keep them from complaining. A new kind of chains. Innovation, only by rich capitalists for rich capitalists.
Heres Peter Thiel struggling to answer the question of whether he prefers the human race to endure: https://www.youtube.com/shorts/LXpc1YiXDoQ
so… his answer is no.