I know countless people my age who make that and a lot more who haven't put a dime away for retirement. I have, but I'm still woefully underserved. I'll deal with that, it's on me.
The problem is that we have built a society in which vast swathes of the population work two or three jobs in order to cover the basic necessities. They don't have savings and it's not because they're irresponsible. This has been a huge problem for a while; in a month's time it's going to be a very different one. Badger's suggestion of widespread freezes on rent and mortgage payments and utility bills and evictions and everything else is a good start, but it doesn't fix the short term problem completely or the long term one at all.
Society is broken. In basic economic terms, the hoarding of resources is a massive inefficiency and one that, one way or the other, needs to be fixed. Better to do it in a controlled fashion, because the alternative is way worse.
I don't know how you can widespread freeze rent.
You're literally saying hey sure I'll help you out to someone in need. I get it. But what about the person who owns the property? Not everyone who rents out property is a billionaire slumlord
They still have their bills to pay, and they're not going away. Utility bills and some kind of government support for rent/lack of income is fine. Hell I'd support the government "stimulus" support bullshit where they effectively hand everyone x amount of cash to get by. (giving people some extra money to get through hard times)
I don't have the answers, if I did I'd make a helluva lot more money.i just know it's easy to throw out utopian ideas, and to point out how shitty things are. But harder to solve them.
Who knows, I guess in recent times I've learned we all spend way too much time arguing like a bunch of cunts. While coronavirus as a disease might not personally effect us. I hope this whole thing ends up being a wakeup call for people to stop being such miserable cunts and enjoy life. Who knows