Or you don’t work full time because you have other priorities. Or you work up to double time (80 hours per week) in an industry/location that pays federal minimum wage and still make less than that, but can’t pursue other career options for reasons that are your own business (e.g.: you are a migrant worker and any attempt to better your working conditions is met with the full force of the Gestapo). Or you’re one of the other 37 million people in the US living below the poverty level (31200 for a family of four in 2023) for whatever other reason that is more likely to by systemic than personal because, contrary to popular belief, poverty is not something people do if they have other options. Or IDK, you live outside the US in a country where 32k may be a substantial salary. Brother, if you think a person not making 32k is an indication that they are personally deficient, you need to wake up and smell the roses. Odds are, you are much closer to people making less than 32k than you think, both in terms of earnings relative to the 1% and in terms of how many things would have to happen to you before you found yourself in their shoes
https://www.edweek.org/technology/u-s-students-computer-literacy-performance-drops/2024/12
It is difficult to find data comparing Gen alpha/“smartphone generation” to other generations, largely because definitions of computer literacy and methods for assessing it have not remained stable on that time scale in the face of evolving technology