America in a nutshell

[#BOTHSIDES]

America ain't a country of "culture" like how you'd think of Japan, Mexico, Switzerland, China, etc. are.

Rather, America is basically a tax zone with borders.

They don't want you to leave and really make it out the rat race because they need to stay and tax 40% of your salary every single year and tax every single transaction.

Think of how much people paid in taxes for 20+ years: year after year of sacrifice and hard-earned dollars. However, when everything shut down and their lives were in shambles, the government spots them with 2 checks for $1k to last a full year - after all the tax money they put into the system?!

Let's also not forget how shytty of a product our tax dollars are "buying": inefficient traffic system, horrible law enforcement, horrible school system, etc. shyt, expensive healthcare means you're one ailment away from your life savings getting wiped out.



Like a reply in that thread: you know how much money a single $1 generates after a decade of taxing it?

Why you think they want a bunch of immigrants to come over? Give them opportunities, so they can start taxing them as well.

Why you think things like capital gains taxes exist?

Oh, you think they want you to "make it" so you can go to another country to retire and they can't tax you anymore?

I agree. Are you say you’re more interested in a socialist system where the government and subsidize and help out more? (Healthcare, unemployment, school and courses, housing assistance and not so much on military and aid for other nations)

 

[Wildin]

Nah I feel it. I’d do the same. I’m on salary though. But more people gotta have that perspective. Instead my incentive is to do as little work as possible. So I try to be done asap.

I'm salary too. Gov employee. We get some perks though.

If I want I can comp my hours and use comp time for vacation or sick, or just cash it out and get a nice check.

There's plenty of people who'll work a shyt ton of overtime bank it all up, change their with holding cash out, get a $10,000 check then change their with holding back.

Some people use it to pad their retirement. One of our plans take either base salary or average of the last 3 years. So when cats have 3 years before retirement it's nothing for them to make 30-40,000 more then eat.

You can retire early but every year you do before your day is like 5% taken out, plus more cause you don't get your full so it's like 60% of your salary then 5% of that for each year.

 

[Serious]

So many questions

1. What city does he live in, is it walkable where he can sell his car to save money of expenses for a car?
2. What is his pay for each of the jobs?
3. What is his educational/skills background?
4. How well does he save and manage his money?

Its 2022 and people still fall for these one sided twitter posts for sympathy

I’ll keep it 100, shyt out of wack. When i look at minimum wage compared what the cost of living is, it just doesn’t make sense. It’s very feasible for someone to be hypothetically working two full time minimum wage jobs and be struggling in my city.


Minimum wage is $15 an hour.
First of all most minimum wage jobs don’t usually have full time workers because they’re trying avoid having pay for benefits.

Secondly, median rent is like for a studio is like 1700-2000.

At 60k that’s over a half of someone’s net pay.


Next factor in car,gas, insurance, utility,phone etc.

It’s easy see why people are struggling.

 

[UpAndComing]

I’ll keep it 100, shyt out of wack. When i look at minimum wage compared what the cost of living is, it just doesn’t sense. It’s very feasible for someone to be hypothetically work two full time minimum wage jobs and be struggling in my city.


Minimum wage is $15 an hour.
First of all most minimum wage jobs don’t usually have full time workers because they’re trying avoid having pay for benefits.

Secondly, median rent is like for a studio is like 1700-2000.

At 60k that’s over a half of someone’s net pay.


Next factor in car,gas, insurance, utility,phone etc.

It’s easy see why people are struggling.

Why are you living alone paying rent, and own a car, if you are working a minimum wage job?

It's crazy how no one seems to recognize the illogical reasoning behind that

 

[BeeCityRoller]

Speak on this

Amazon Flex has fallen off in my area. The offers are there but they do not surge to $25-35 an hour nearly as often as in 2020-2021. I did get lucky and snag a 3-hour block for $111 on Saturday and finished early. Like @DatBoiHawk said taking a 4.5-Hour route for $81 makes no sense when average route is 40+ miles with 40+ stops. It is alot of wear and tear on the car and a large time commitment compared to other apps. Doordash is okay if you live near hotspot like I do and are willing to cherrypick during peak times. Walmart Spark has been good since nearly every store does it now, but Youtubers have blown up the spot and its getting over-saturated.

As long as I'm doing $250-300 a week between all the apps to cover gas and stash money away I'm good, but alot of people who do this as their only job are going to get caught with their pants down this year.

 

[Absolut]

Why are you living alone paying rent, and own a car, if you are working a minimum wage job?

It's crazy how no one seems to recognize the illogical reasoning behind that

Folks lifetimes of bad choices are coming home to roost. That’s the crux of the matter. Numerous kids, no actual career, punted education due to previously mentioned kids or lack of interest, not saving money ever in their lives, no budget ever in their lives etc. years, or decades, of shyt decisions is adding up to a tough reality for a lot of people when finally faced with bit of adversity

 

[Serious]

Why are you living alone paying rent, and own a car, if you are working a minimum wage job?

It's crazy how no one seems to recognize the illogical reasoning behind that

I hear ya but people have their reasons for wanting to live alone. The point is two minimum wage jobs can’t even afford someone to live alone. That’s says a lot.

 

[IIVI]

Additionally, you can't blame everyone 100% for where they are.

Some people came into this world with crappy circumstances or crappy circumstances hit them indirectly and now they gotta get out of it. Life has paper thin margins. You can do everything "the right way" and still get shytted on for things outside of your control.

I guess that's why I'm so adamant about this topic. Before I became a software engineer life was hard af and I really "made it" in large part because I was blessed to have a great support system.

However, many people do not have that support system and I'll tell you straight up the government don't make it the easiest on you when you're down either.

From personal experience I know there's a lot of incredible talent out there who can make great things happen but don't have the opportunity because they're being handicapped. However, give them some help and they can thrive.

 

[NkrumahWasRight Is Wrong]

The tweet at the beginning of the thread doesn't really make any sense. He's saying that he leaves his home super early, but in the next post he's saying "you want people to go back into the office...?" Is he doing it or not?

I'm more interested in the ROFL_Guy angle to this thread. What's this guy's age range? How much does he have at the end of the week? Is he only doing sports betting, or are there other games mixed in there as well? Doesn't he pay taxes? Does he keep most of his money in a bank or in cash?

Feel free to make a separate thread. I'm sure enough of us will read it.

Gambling income doesnt count as earned income so unless he hits big in one payment and has to report then hes not paying taxes until april and can claim 0 earned income to get SSI, food stamps, medicaid etc. He may even have SSDI and Medicare

 

[El_Mero_Mero]

Gambling income doesnt count as earned income so unless he hits big in one payment and has to report then hes not paying taxes until april and can claim 0 earned income to get SSI, food stamps, medicaid etc. He may even have SSDI and Medicare

I guess you're right. As long as he doesn't get a Rewards card, there really wouldn't be anything tracking how much money he was wagering, and how much money he was winning and losing (at least when it comes to table games, I'm not sure how it works for sports betting).

 

[NkrumahWasRight Is Wrong]

I guess you're right. As long as he doesn't get a Rewards card, there really wouldn't be anything tracking how much money he was wagering, and how much money he was winning and losing (at least when it comes to table games, I'm not sure how it works for sports betting).

Even if its tracked its not.qualified as earned income

I think you can "earn" 1240 a month and still get disability

Theoretically he can make 100k a month in gambling and still get disability payments and medicare

 

[ROFL_GUY]

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Mets. Win 5-4

 

[ROFL_GUY]

Damn you're really winning at life

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[ROFL_GUY]

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NYM +1.5 @ -122

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[ROFL_GUY]

Damn you're really winning at life

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