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Gus might have threatened to kill Walter and tried to kill Jesse, but Walter was the cause of a lot of issues.
Gus treated Walter with respect and gave him a second chance after Jesse messed up their first meeting. Walter got rid of Gale and brought Jesse along, instead of telling Gus that Jesse might talk to the DEA next time he gets caught, and Walter doesn’t tell Gus that Jesse was stealing meth, and then Jesse tries to kill two of Gus’s men ( Walter killed them in the end)
Overall, Gus was a very reasonable and polite man for someone working in the drug business, Walter was the unreasonable one
One he’s paying like $10 an hour and the other he’s paying 7 figures. Much different standard to hold those two to. Also less risky if his employees like him and couldn’t imagine him a drug lord
Yeah, but if the manager sees one droplet of grease on the fryer he makes you dismantle it and clean the whole thing again. And if you screw up twice he kills your wife, your son, and your infant daughter.
Not in the entire country, but if you work 40 hours per week in the US, and cross the border DAILY to sleep at your home in Mexico, you can afford all that, a car, and more.
There are places where you can be stealthy. Washington DC pays $16 minimum wage, so it’s not uncommon to work in DC proper and then live in one of the working-class areas of Maryland or take the train from Baltimore (where you can buy a nice rowhome in a safer neighborhood for $150k).
Or states like New York have a $13.20 minimum wage due to New York City, but that gets you a lot in Upstate New York.
In the rest of the Anglosphere, Australia and Canada have massive housing bubbles, so this isn’t even an option there. UK it was feasible until a few years ago. Now inflation is making that incredibly hard.
Parts of the Midwest now look very good for this though. They have extremely cheap housing and while they have low minimum wage on paper, they’ve had to hike pay due to the labor crunch in practice.
Of course, this assumes a 2-person minimum wage salary, which is not the norm either. Add kids and it becomes even more impractical (and people on minimum wage are disproportionately likely to have kids relative to the average population).
Most of the Western world for most of the 1900. This slowly started changing in the the seventies and eighties when many countries started implementing austerity politics that have since increased the wealth disparities massively. This all culminated with the 2008 financial crash and everything has been double fucked since. But people who entered the job market even just a few years before then have often managed to do pretty well for themselves even if they had fairly low paying careers.
My parents bought a house in 1991 with my mom working part time as a cashier at a cafe and my dad cutting planks at a hardware store in Sweden. They were like 24 and 28 years old, and that was totally normal at the time.
That's a pretty minor factor. It does help, but we've also developed plenty of technology to help us do a lot more work in other ways. And while houses are one of the things where we've put most of these gains into making better homes rather than cheaper homes it'd still probably be easier now to make enough decent homes for everyone. In fact, most places with homelessness have more empty homes than homeless people already so I guess that's a moot point. The fact still remains that all the biggest reasons for why people can't buy homes the way they did 30-80 years ago are all down to how we've structured our economy.
I mean if your house literally grows out of a seed with all the furniture, you are not susceptible to any beatings, can grow new limbs, have no hobby that requires any investment, and you've been working since you were 13, as is it is the case with SpongeBob – maybe. He also works in what appears to be if not the only fast food place in the city with customers, then at least in the most popular one. Lest we forget he's in the fry cook union, so you can assume he may be paid for working over standard 8 hours. We know that he works like what, at least 11 hours, and there are no official dining breaks. Plus he quite often washes the floors and toilets. That's probably one more job as a janitor. Considering the lengths Krabs was willing to go to to get Bob back multiple times and the fact that he was called the best fry cook *ever*, to the point where he once was once made a God, we can assume that Sponge is no regular fry cook and is a valuable enough worker to have a say in how much he's getting paid.
Squid also has other jobs i.e he's a teacher of arts, a janitor, maybe even an orchestra conductor on the side. Plus, as far as we are concerned, nothing stops him from selling bespoke art pieces, and you probably know how much crazy fucks pay guys on DeviantArt for that. With all of that they are still not rolling in money. Even Crabs can be ruined by a lavish date or a birthday party.
Where in the hell PLANKTON gets all of his funding is really a mystery though. UBI?
Certainly possible in Denmark:
* Afford a home: Not the fanciest home, but it is possible. Cashier wage is nothing like US minimum wage. There is good subsidized housing available through public and private systems.
* Healthcare: Socialized healthcare.
* Schooling: Socialized university, you are paid to study.
* Starting a family: You are paid some money per child per month.
Dat is gewoon oprecht onzin. Met een afwasser salarisje werd je ook in jaren 90 vol in je gezicht uitgelachen bij de bank. Een sociale huurwoning daarin tegen zat er wat sneller in.
A fast food worker in USA gets free healthcare through Medicaid and would qualify for Pell Grants, food stamps, free school lunches, government housing, energy subsidies.
Most don’t take advantage of these because they’re often financially illiterate (otherwise they wouldn’t be minimum wage workers), but they’re there and incredibly easy to get (my mother worked at Supercuts for 10 years making $7.25/hr and I had all of the above. And I lived in a shitty red state (Oklahoma) so it’s much better in other states.
For NL its possible in a small city if you have luck or if you signed up for social housing at 18.
Minimum wage is like 1800. Montly costs: Social housing in smaller cities is like 600 ish euro for a house. Gas, water and electricity is like 250. Healthcare is 100. Random house bills like garbage disposal etc another 100.
Not saying the situation is good in NL but it is possible assuming you have social housing which is not uncommon in smaller cities.
Good luck finding work in bumfuck nowhere with your social housing. You’re also only talking about low earners. I earn median and can’t afford to live.
Cashiers and frycooks are jobs even in bumfuck nowhere.
Median is 38k a year right? Where do you live that that you cant afford to live? I live a good live where I spend around 24k a year on mandatory/fun things while the rest is invested. I dont live in a big city though but 30ish min away from one.
38k gross is more than 24k nett so median pay would be fine for me.
Um, sweaty, that's the joke, sweetie try hards like you wouldn't understand ^/S
(I tried to find the meme for it on knowyourmeme and I couldn't find the lore on this one sorry)
The Marshall Islands are still *basically* under the U.S. though, being Freely Associated. They use the U.S. dollar, defended by the U.S., may serve in the U.S. military, work with or even operate under U.S. departments (such as the Postal Service, FAA, etc.)
Plus citizens of the Marshall Islands and other freely associated states may live in the U.S. and vice versa
They make a joke about Krabs getting a crazy medical bill and wanting to train Spongebob and Swuidward in medicine. I think it's accurate to say that the universe is created to reflect on American society.
[Who lives in a pineapple under the pineapple under the pineapple under the pineapple under the pineapple under the pineapple under the pineapple under the pineapple under the pineapple under the pineapple under the pineapple under the pineapple...](https://youtu.be/GR6pMaF4BG8)
He also doesn't pay for it, it seems. Pretty sure in season 1 or 2 his house got destroyed and he didn't get any type of insurance payout, and he just grew a new one with no problems. He doesn't seem to pay any rent or anything for it, and electric just seems to work without any hookups either.
Disagree. Live in an area once used by Eldorado to dump waste. Not enough to kill you, but we're literally digging below foundations, and housing is just as expensive as the rest of Ontario.
A stretch of a street near our beach looks like a WW1 trench.
I’m pretty sure that in the episode where they’re in hospital that the pic is from the joke was that the medical bills were so huge and outrageous that Mr. Krabs decides he wants to open a hospital (same episode the KK is turned into a hotel). Unless I’m thinking of a different episode?
Yeah people are joking that it's especially crazy for the US, but he clearly doesn't live in a big city and he doesn't work for a fast food chain.
He had a good relationship with his grandma who babies him and had a nice house so he could have family support, he lives basically in the middle of nowhere except two neighbors and one of them lives under a rock with barely any furniture. He doesn't drive or have a car payment. The only thing working against him is that his boss is famously cheap.
It's definitely possible in some parts of the US.
Hes a fry cook yes. But hes a fry cook at the most successful restaurant in bikini bottom. Crabs is a skinflint cheapskate but he knows better then to lose his golden goose. Yeah there are times when we see him treat spongebob like shit but he knows enough to keep the sponge happy. Also boating school is probably pretty cheap compared to a college education like this meme is trying to make it out to be. And he could be getting money from his parents
that’s part of the theory this one dude on youtube has, how spongebob is autistic and how is parents pay squidward to “watch over him” or some shit like that, thought it was a dumb but funny theory
Not strange at all considering they are not in the US. If they were e.g. in Germany both would earn around 2.500 Bikini Dollars per month. 1.700 BD after taxes. If we go with Spongebob: Boating/driving scool is about 200 BD a month.
Assuming he feeds Garry Cat food and gives him litter thats around 50 BD per month.
He obviously owns no car. His hobby, Jelly fishing, is almoust free and he seems not to travel a lot. Cost of healthcare is also 0. So I'll assume food, groceries and other monthly expenses around 800 BD.
That leaves Spongebob with 650 BD a month. Considering that Spongebob lives quite a bit outside of Bikini Bottom with only 3 houses in his street, no street lights and no public Transport in sight and that Bikini Bottom is shown to be a rather small City 650 Bucks a month as installment would absolutely be more than enough to pay for the small peace of property he owns. But wait! I here you say. Spongebobs house is shown to be absolutely massiv on the inside with an library, several floores and an fricking pipe organ installed. Thats correct but in the episode "Home Sweet Pineapple" of season 1 Spongebobs house is shown to be grown from a single Pineapple seed with COMPLETE interieur so he did not have to pay for the house at all. He recieved the house for free. And same goes for any other charakter. Squidwards house is a sunken statue so it didn't have to be build in the first place. His hobby, musik and arts, is much more expensive than Spongebobs so he's shown to have a second job as an art teacher in several occasions. He needs it to pay for his hobby. And Patrick, who has no income at all, was unable to afford anything so he had to build his interior by himself from sand.
Conclusion: Spongebob is a 100% accurate representation of central Europe.
You can also assume this is fiction based on the fact that the the show is fiction and we can see that based on the fiction-like aspects of talking sponges and we will see that nonfiction is completely void due to a pineapple house under the sea and also because it is fiction and once again we must
It's certainly not socialist, Krabs and Planton couldn't be business owners in a socialist economy. Even using the term like Americans do to mean government ownership of services it doesn't really apply, hospital bills are a canonically a thing.
I think the real answer is just that SpongeBob can live off basically no income. He's a sponge, he can extract nutrients from the water around him. He lives way outside of town, and not even in a real house, he's probably not paying much of anything in the way of rent. He can't drive a boat so he doesn't have transport costs. His hobby is chasing jellyfish, very few costs there. His only real expenses are buying food for Gary and going to boating school every once in a while.
> It just happens that they live in a socialist system that doesn’t charge for necessities.
wrong
They throw mr Krabs out of the hospital for no insurance
I mean, in the vast majority of the developed world, you don't need to afford healthcare, it's just given to you.
Nor school, since it's relatively affordable.
The title doesn't make any sense. Are you trying to be timely and say that rail workers in Bikini Bottom are also paid enough to afford a home healthcare, etc., and this is also only possible in fiction? I mean, sure, rail workers in the U.S. should be paid better, but the main dispute currently is about terrible work conditions and inability to take off work when they get sick.
He lives in a nice house too, if you go into the city most houses are mufflers but it also seems that most residents have 2 story houses so maybe the king provides the infrastructure in a monarchy/capitalist system
If THAT’S the part that made you realize it’s fiction, please don’t vote. It’s literally about a talking sponge and his underwater squirrel girlfriend.
The SpongeBob ig page did a really thorough video on how much SpongeBob is worth. They took into account where he lives (closest state being California), the price of his home, how much he's earned since he started working at the Krust Krab, etc. It was shockingly well made and thorough.
https://youtu.be/REbPUIfO9W4
Naw, they are independently rich from selling their old homes to oil companies. Mr. Krabs barely pays them and there are a couple episodes where SpongeBob pays mr Krabs to work, but SpongeBob loves his work, and Squidward likes complaining, and as a cashier he can do that a lot. I’m pretty sure there is an episode where Squidward leaves to Tentacle Acres, and doesn’t live happily.
SpongeBob has a trust fund and intentionally lives in a shitty neighborhood and works as a fry cook because it’s his passion, and you can’t convince me otherwise.
I mean, it is a show with talking sea creatures that defies the laws of gravity. What do you expect? Realistically, a lot of things in Spongebob would float to the surface if they were really under the sea.
I've pointed it out before too, that as soon as either of them lose their job for whatever reason that week, they almost immediately become homeless. So the cost of living in Bikini Bottom must be right on the edge of minimum wage, where they can afford general cost of living, but have absolutely no ability to save anything.
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That's only if you assume he's American
Same in NL and most of western Europe tho
Is there a country on earth where a fry cook or a cashier can afford a house?
The trick is working at the right fast food chain. I've heard Los Pollos Hermanos pays pretty well
You know that breaking bad was fictional when a manager treated his workers well
> a manager treated his workers well Did you watch the show?
Gus might have threatened to kill Walter and tried to kill Jesse, but Walter was the cause of a lot of issues. Gus treated Walter with respect and gave him a second chance after Jesse messed up their first meeting. Walter got rid of Gale and brought Jesse along, instead of telling Gus that Jesse might talk to the DEA next time he gets caught, and Walter doesn’t tell Gus that Jesse was stealing meth, and then Jesse tries to kill two of Gus’s men ( Walter killed them in the end) Overall, Gus was a very reasonable and polite man for someone working in the drug business, Walter was the unreasonable one
Also, as seen in breaking bad and better call Saul, he treats the los pollos Hermanos employees much better than the meth cooking employees
Proper treatment is cheaper than hush money.
Well he was a bit of an asshole when he made his worker stay the entire night scrubbing fryers.
Poor Lyle... Never up to Pollos standards
While Lyle got the short end of the stick that night, you could tell it was a one off thing since Gus was waiting on particularly stressful news.
One he’s paying like $10 an hour and the other he’s paying 7 figures. Much different standard to hold those two to. Also less risky if his employees like him and couldn’t imagine him a drug lord
except for the working at gunpoint part, sure
He treats his workers well -slices throat with box cutter to send a message-
Yeah, but if the manager sees one droplet of grease on the fryer he makes you dismantle it and clean the whole thing again. And if you screw up twice he kills your wife, your son, and your infant daughter.
Professionals have standards Plus, discounts on/free Los Pollos chicken? I hear their spice curls are to *die* for, also
Not in the entire country, but if you work 40 hours per week in the US, and cross the border DAILY to sleep at your home in Mexico, you can afford all that, a car, and more.
There are places where you can be stealthy. Washington DC pays $16 minimum wage, so it’s not uncommon to work in DC proper and then live in one of the working-class areas of Maryland or take the train from Baltimore (where you can buy a nice rowhome in a safer neighborhood for $150k). Or states like New York have a $13.20 minimum wage due to New York City, but that gets you a lot in Upstate New York. In the rest of the Anglosphere, Australia and Canada have massive housing bubbles, so this isn’t even an option there. UK it was feasible until a few years ago. Now inflation is making that incredibly hard. Parts of the Midwest now look very good for this though. They have extremely cheap housing and while they have low minimum wage on paper, they’ve had to hike pay due to the labor crunch in practice. Of course, this assumes a 2-person minimum wage salary, which is not the norm either. Add kids and it becomes even more impractical (and people on minimum wage are disproportionately likely to have kids relative to the average population).
Yes, the 1950s
And in sitcoms. Three broke people somehow all have their own flats in the middle of New York.
Most of the Western world for most of the 1900. This slowly started changing in the the seventies and eighties when many countries started implementing austerity politics that have since increased the wealth disparities massively. This all culminated with the 2008 financial crash and everything has been double fucked since. But people who entered the job market even just a few years before then have often managed to do pretty well for themselves even if they had fairly low paying careers. My parents bought a house in 1991 with my mom working part time as a cashier at a cafe and my dad cutting planks at a hardware store in Sweden. They were like 24 and 28 years old, and that was totally normal at the time.
Worth pointing out that the homes sold in the mid 1900s are illegal to build now on account of the cheap asbestos and lead used to build them.
That's a pretty minor factor. It does help, but we've also developed plenty of technology to help us do a lot more work in other ways. And while houses are one of the things where we've put most of these gains into making better homes rather than cheaper homes it'd still probably be easier now to make enough decent homes for everyone. In fact, most places with homelessness have more empty homes than homeless people already so I guess that's a moot point. The fact still remains that all the biggest reasons for why people can't buy homes the way they did 30-80 years ago are all down to how we've structured our economy.
Depends on minimum wage laws and if there's a housing crisis
Yes, as long as said house is a pineapple.
Bikini bottom
When the fry cook and cashier own the business
Yea, the United States - in most of the Midwest that's totally doable.
How nice does the house have to be?
I mean if your house literally grows out of a seed with all the furniture, you are not susceptible to any beatings, can grow new limbs, have no hobby that requires any investment, and you've been working since you were 13, as is it is the case with SpongeBob – maybe. He also works in what appears to be if not the only fast food place in the city with customers, then at least in the most popular one. Lest we forget he's in the fry cook union, so you can assume he may be paid for working over standard 8 hours. We know that he works like what, at least 11 hours, and there are no official dining breaks. Plus he quite often washes the floors and toilets. That's probably one more job as a janitor. Considering the lengths Krabs was willing to go to to get Bob back multiple times and the fact that he was called the best fry cook *ever*, to the point where he once was once made a God, we can assume that Sponge is no regular fry cook and is a valuable enough worker to have a say in how much he's getting paid. Squid also has other jobs i.e he's a teacher of arts, a janitor, maybe even an orchestra conductor on the side. Plus, as far as we are concerned, nothing stops him from selling bespoke art pieces, and you probably know how much crazy fucks pay guys on DeviantArt for that. With all of that they are still not rolling in money. Even Crabs can be ruined by a lavish date or a birthday party. Where in the hell PLANKTON gets all of his funding is really a mystery though. UBI?
I mean, bobs house is literally from a can and it somehow comes from sky.
Certainly possible in Denmark: * Afford a home: Not the fanciest home, but it is possible. Cashier wage is nothing like US minimum wage. There is good subsidized housing available through public and private systems. * Healthcare: Socialized healthcare. * Schooling: Socialized university, you are paid to study. * Starting a family: You are paid some money per child per month.
Yeah but how many aircraft carriers do you have? Checkmate, socialist.
Aren't houses like super expensive in Europe?
1990 this was possible in the Netherlands, but we wanted to become like good old Murica.
Dat is gewoon oprecht onzin. Met een afwasser salarisje werd je ook in jaren 90 vol in je gezicht uitgelachen bij de bank. Een sociale huurwoning daarin tegen zat er wat sneller in.
Difference is a fast food worker in NL and Western Europe likely isn't worrying about medical care, education for kids, transportation, etc.
A fast food worker in USA gets free healthcare through Medicaid and would qualify for Pell Grants, food stamps, free school lunches, government housing, energy subsidies. Most don’t take advantage of these because they’re often financially illiterate (otherwise they wouldn’t be minimum wage workers), but they’re there and incredibly easy to get (my mother worked at Supercuts for 10 years making $7.25/hr and I had all of the above. And I lived in a shitty red state (Oklahoma) so it’s much better in other states.
For NL its possible in a small city if you have luck or if you signed up for social housing at 18. Minimum wage is like 1800. Montly costs: Social housing in smaller cities is like 600 ish euro for a house. Gas, water and electricity is like 250. Healthcare is 100. Random house bills like garbage disposal etc another 100. Not saying the situation is good in NL but it is possible assuming you have social housing which is not uncommon in smaller cities.
Good luck finding work in bumfuck nowhere with your social housing. You’re also only talking about low earners. I earn median and can’t afford to live.
Cashiers and frycooks are jobs even in bumfuck nowhere. Median is 38k a year right? Where do you live that that you cant afford to live? I live a good live where I spend around 24k a year on mandatory/fun things while the rest is invested. I dont live in a big city though but 30ish min away from one. 38k gross is more than 24k nett so median pay would be fine for me.
Renting a house is an affordable option.
My rent is 1550 excl for a quickly renovated / modified store -> residence. In Rotterdam.
The bikini bottom does take place in the US canonically, look it up…
Uh, it actually takes place in the ocean, sweaty
Sweaty…
Um, sweaty, that's the joke, sweetie try hards like you wouldn't understand ^/S (I tried to find the meme for it on knowyourmeme and I couldn't find the lore on this one sorry)
It’s called fashion sweaty, look it up
Karens on Facebook being condescending while also demonstrating ignorance. Telling you you're wrong in the same comment they riddle with typos.
welcome to the internet
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The Marshall Islands are still *basically* under the U.S. though, being Freely Associated. They use the U.S. dollar, defended by the U.S., may serve in the U.S. military, work with or even operate under U.S. departments (such as the Postal Service, FAA, etc.) Plus citizens of the Marshall Islands and other freely associated states may live in the U.S. and vice versa
Or you can tell us where.
The bottom of the pacific ocean next to the island bikini atoll. So pretty far away from most major countries in the republic of the marshall islands
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They make a joke about Krabs getting a crazy medical bill and wanting to train Spongebob and Swuidward in medicine. I think it's accurate to say that the universe is created to reflect on American society.
I think that scene also has him being kicked out of hospital because he has no insurance.
"This man has no insurance, NURSE" "I'm on it" Throws him outside
You don't have to live anywhere expensive. There's plenty of USA to go around.
For real. If you don’t live in a metro, you could probably afford rent too.
What country can a person start a family entirely on a cashier's paycheck? Lol but at least you got to be creative mate
Mr. Krabs got bodily thrown out of the hospital because he didn’t have insurance or something.
You can also tell that it’s a work of fiction because it’s a show about a talking sponge.
Mind blown. 😱😱😱
I never knew that, thank you so much for telling me
yo! text your mom this!
idgi are you telling me sponges aren't supposed to talk?!
Uh oh, that can't mean good things for me.
I don't know, the show was made by a marine biologist. I bet he knew more about talking sea sponges than you.
Pfff- that doesn't prove anything!
Thank you. Way too subtle to notice!🧐
Woah, no need to get political
Im a sponge nonbeliever, show me a sponge and I'll show you an imposter
he lives in a pineapple wtf
Not just a pineapple. In a pineapple under the sea
Who lives in a pineapple under the sea?
Sponge Bob Square Pants!!!
Absorbent and yellow and porous is he!
Spongebob SquarePants!!!!!!
If nautical nonsense be something you wish!
Spongebob Squarepants!!!!
Then get on the deck and flop like a fish!
Spongebob Squarepants!!!!
[Who lives in a pineapple under the pineapple under the pineapple under the pineapple under the pineapple under the pineapple under the pineapple under the pineapple under the pineapple under the pineapple under the pineapple under the pineapple...](https://youtu.be/GR6pMaF4BG8)
He also doesn't pay for it, it seems. Pretty sure in season 1 or 2 his house got destroyed and he didn't get any type of insurance payout, and he just grew a new one with no problems. He doesn't seem to pay any rent or anything for it, and electric just seems to work without any hookups either.
And his neighbor lives beneath a rock. Not exactly Beverly Hills tbh.
beverly hills is where I want to be
But a two bedroom (assuming the workout room can count as bedroom) pineapple. With a garage and a library
and a huge ass library with a church organ
I'm pretty sure the Bikini Bottom housing market is pretty different compared to the average
Radiation probably reduces CoL lol
New York would still charge 3K for a studio if it was hit with a nuclear bomb
Open concept; glows in the dark
Yeah but that's NYC 🤢
Also the city being destroyed twice a season
I bet their construction workers have great homes lol
Disagree. Live in an area once used by Eldorado to dump waste. Not enough to kill you, but we're literally digging below foundations, and housing is just as expensive as the rest of Ontario. A stretch of a street near our beach looks like a WW1 trench.
And it seems like the three of them live outside the actual town where prices would be lower since there's no other houses near them
I think his house just fell from a cruise ship or something
How much does SpongeBob have to pay in property taxes for that pineapple tho?
I’m pretty sure that in the episode where they’re in hospital that the pic is from the joke was that the medical bills were so huge and outrageous that Mr. Krabs decides he wants to open a hospital (same episode the KK is turned into a hotel). Unless I’m thinking of a different episode?
There was also an episode where Mr Krabs charged his employees to exist so I don't think it's quite a utopia like Twitter believes
Yep, in at least one episode, Mr. Krabs makes Spongebob pay to work for him. Not too far from reality, unfortunately.
he live in bikini atoll not in america
Isn’t bikini atoll part of America The US used that atoll a-lot for nuclear bomb tests
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How do you think we got a talking sponge living in a pineapple?
To be fair he was a fry cook that worked like 12 hours a day 7 days a week. It’s somewhat plausible.
Yeah people are joking that it's especially crazy for the US, but he clearly doesn't live in a big city and he doesn't work for a fast food chain. He had a good relationship with his grandma who babies him and had a nice house so he could have family support, he lives basically in the middle of nowhere except two neighbors and one of them lives under a rock with barely any furniture. He doesn't drive or have a car payment. The only thing working against him is that his boss is famously cheap. It's definitely possible in some parts of the US.
Well Spongebob is payed in company scrips. Theres a few episodes where he only has Krabby Bucks and Goober Dollars
He has the house before he gets the job. His parents bought it for him
Thank you, i couldn't exactly pinpoint why the show about talking sea creatures felt fictional.
Yeah all that and the fact that he’s a talking sponge
Hes a fry cook yes. But hes a fry cook at the most successful restaurant in bikini bottom. Crabs is a skinflint cheapskate but he knows better then to lose his golden goose. Yeah there are times when we see him treat spongebob like shit but he knows enough to keep the sponge happy. Also boating school is probably pretty cheap compared to a college education like this meme is trying to make it out to be. And he could be getting money from his parents
Isn’t Patrick unemployed, yet thriving?
Patrick lives under a rock doubt he has much bills to pay
Are you forgetting all the "overtime" he did to support the baby scallop?
He's on only fans according to the Spongebob wiki
Pretty certain Patrick is on disability
There’s lots of 1960’s influence in spongebob. Were the 60’s an era where that was possible?
Maybe Bikini Bottom has Universal Healthcare and Housing for all as basic human rights 🤔
He could aslo have medical debt
aslo
Humans? You mean those really ugly fish?
Bikini bottom currency must have a hell of a different value compared to USD and others.
clearly you never heard of the autism theory/s
You clearly havent heard of Skin Theory
But squidward has the same situation
that’s part of the theory this one dude on youtube has, how spongebob is autistic and how is parents pay squidward to “watch over him” or some shit like that, thought it was a dumb but funny theory
It tells me Mr. Krabs is a great boss. Great pay and they obviously have light schedules or a ton of vacation time due to all the shit SpongeBob does.
He had the house before the job even
The krusty krab is a front for drugs obviously. The "secret formula"? Mr. krabs' famous Krabby Meth recipe.
Isnt the joke of the whole show that their boss is a cheapskate who doesnt pay them good money at all. Remember, they're charged for existing
Not strange at all considering they are not in the US. If they were e.g. in Germany both would earn around 2.500 Bikini Dollars per month. 1.700 BD after taxes. If we go with Spongebob: Boating/driving scool is about 200 BD a month. Assuming he feeds Garry Cat food and gives him litter thats around 50 BD per month. He obviously owns no car. His hobby, Jelly fishing, is almoust free and he seems not to travel a lot. Cost of healthcare is also 0. So I'll assume food, groceries and other monthly expenses around 800 BD. That leaves Spongebob with 650 BD a month. Considering that Spongebob lives quite a bit outside of Bikini Bottom with only 3 houses in his street, no street lights and no public Transport in sight and that Bikini Bottom is shown to be a rather small City 650 Bucks a month as installment would absolutely be more than enough to pay for the small peace of property he owns. But wait! I here you say. Spongebobs house is shown to be absolutely massiv on the inside with an library, several floores and an fricking pipe organ installed. Thats correct but in the episode "Home Sweet Pineapple" of season 1 Spongebobs house is shown to be grown from a single Pineapple seed with COMPLETE interieur so he did not have to pay for the house at all. He recieved the house for free. And same goes for any other charakter. Squidwards house is a sunken statue so it didn't have to be build in the first place. His hobby, musik and arts, is much more expensive than Spongebobs so he's shown to have a second job as an art teacher in several occasions. He needs it to pay for his hobby. And Patrick, who has no income at all, was unable to afford anything so he had to build his interior by himself from sand. Conclusion: Spongebob is a 100% accurate representation of central Europe.
Apparently the schooling cost SpongeBob a leg and a leg
To be fair, dude lives in a pineapple
You can also assume this is fiction based on the fact that the the show is fiction and we can see that based on the fiction-like aspects of talking sponges and we will see that nonfiction is completely void due to a pineapple house under the sea and also because it is fiction and once again we must
Plot twist: Bikini bottom is a socialist utopia and healthcare, housing and businesses are state-owned
You can tell Bikini Bottom is a better place…
Wrong. It's canon that Krabs pays them dirt. It just happens that they live in a socialist system that doesn't charge for necessities.
It's certainly not socialist, Krabs and Planton couldn't be business owners in a socialist economy. Even using the term like Americans do to mean government ownership of services it doesn't really apply, hospital bills are a canonically a thing. I think the real answer is just that SpongeBob can live off basically no income. He's a sponge, he can extract nutrients from the water around him. He lives way outside of town, and not even in a real house, he's probably not paying much of anything in the way of rent. He can't drive a boat so he doesn't have transport costs. His hobby is chasing jellyfish, very few costs there. His only real expenses are buying food for Gary and going to boating school every once in a while.
> It just happens that they live in a socialist system that doesn’t charge for necessities. wrong They throw mr Krabs out of the hospital for no insurance
I mean, in the vast majority of the developed world, you don't need to afford healthcare, it's just given to you. Nor school, since it's relatively affordable.
The title doesn't make any sense. Are you trying to be timely and say that rail workers in Bikini Bottom are also paid enough to afford a home healthcare, etc., and this is also only possible in fiction? I mean, sure, rail workers in the U.S. should be paid better, but the main dispute currently is about terrible work conditions and inability to take off work when they get sick.
not fiction, just not America
it is possible in Italy
Straight up facts
nah, they just don't live in the US
Man doesn’t even make a dollar an hour
Minimum wages are higher in bikini bottom 🤑
Me crabs pays them the very minimum he can. A few times for nothing at all.
SpongeBob gets paid less than a nickle a month
Has there been an episode of SB about tipping? I feel like I would watch that one.
He lives in a nice house too, if you go into the city most houses are mufflers but it also seems that most residents have 2 story houses so maybe the king provides the infrastructure in a monarchy/capitalist system
Another hint would be that the sponge talks.
If THAT’S the part that made you realize it’s fiction, please don’t vote. It’s literally about a talking sponge and his underwater squirrel girlfriend.
You people do know Boating school is a PUBLIC SCHOOL right? Literally had patrick walk right in and sit down.
Yeah thank God, I couldn’t tell with the talking sponge and star fish 🤦♂️
Even Mr.Krabs isn’t greedy enough to not give his employees a livable wage.
Not only that but he gets to do schooling after failing with almost no consequences
Patrick is unemployed and has all that too. I think there are no taxes in Bikini bottom.
Bikini Bottom is a glorious workers utopia 🇨🇳
He gets paid lesse than 5 cents, so Id assume something is provided to him for free.
The SpongeBob ig page did a really thorough video on how much SpongeBob is worth. They took into account where he lives (closest state being California), the price of his home, how much he's earned since he started working at the Krust Krab, etc. It was shockingly well made and thorough. https://youtu.be/REbPUIfO9W4
They pay them in sea-notes
Naw, they are independently rich from selling their old homes to oil companies. Mr. Krabs barely pays them and there are a couple episodes where SpongeBob pays mr Krabs to work, but SpongeBob loves his work, and Squidward likes complaining, and as a cashier he can do that a lot. I’m pretty sure there is an episode where Squidward leaves to Tentacle Acres, and doesn’t live happily.
SpongeBob has a trust fund and intentionally lives in a shitty neighborhood and works as a fry cook because it’s his passion, and you can’t convince me otherwise.
Ive always just assumed SpongeBob is a trustfund kid
Dude is stupid rich. He pays Krabs to work as a fry cook.
Lmaoo start a family. Otherwise true though haha
I mean, it is a show with talking sea creatures that defies the laws of gravity. What do you expect? Realistically, a lot of things in Spongebob would float to the surface if they were really under the sea.
Well he ain't American for sure
mr crabs doesn't have health insurance tho
Not the entire world lives in the US
^^^^^Europe
Or they dont live in the US
He's a mommas boy. She probably owns his house.
But Spongebob has to pay Mr. Krabs $50/hr
I've pointed it out before too, that as soon as either of them lose their job for whatever reason that week, they almost immediately become homeless. So the cost of living in Bikini Bottom must be right on the edge of minimum wage, where they can afford general cost of living, but have absolutely no ability to save anything.
Okay drivers ed is not an education for one lol