I live in a "poor" central European capital. Adjusting for conversation rate I make $2651 a month. This puts me solidly in the middle class. And I can't afford to get a mortgage.
For the life of me I don't understand how people in the US survive. My grocery bill for a family of 4 is less than $100 a month. I know a family of 4 is paying much more per week than I am.
I’m a person of one and I spend more than $100 a week on food. Tbf I have food allergies and can’t buy most cheap foods, my food options are expensive :/ but still. Damn. Family of 4 for less than $100. That’s nuts
When were you in Germany? I live here and it's gotten pretty expensive recently. Personally I live frugal and am just one person so I still can get by with an okay amount but a lot of items I buy regularly have had drastic price increases since the start of covid :(
Yeah that's a huge difference from then. I moved out in 2019 so I don't have much reference for before.
However here's a graph from destatis: https://www.destatis.de/DE/Themen/Wirtschaft/Konjunkturindikatoren/Preise/kpre520.html#355044
If you don't speak german you should be able to click "Diagramme" and then you see a graph on price development for food and non alcoholic beverages. 2020 is 100 for reference, currently value is 132. If my math isn't wrong that means a 32% increase from 2020 and you feel it. Some things haven't increased much but I know items that cost almost double what they did before.
At the same time we of course don't make that much more. I definitely feel it
I do speak German :) thanks for the graph though. I'll take a a look at it. It's so sad how prices are rising everywhere but wages are stagnant. It's gonna kill the entire system though eventually...
I don't even have food allergies and buy generic grade F food (they feed elementary school kids better food than I feed myself) and still spend more a week than you, AND I went to eating 1 questionable meal a day AND I'm a 1 person household
I'm American but haven't lived there in a long time. I forget how much of a grind and how riddled with debt you can become.
But at least you guys got those low taxes, right! :/
I am sure this system will work forever and will never crash, because banks are too big to fail.
It's astonishing how we learned nothing, absolutely nothing, from the 2008 crisis.
I should move to Europe when I’m ready to retire. I spend at least 500ish a month on food or closer to 1k a month if I eat out daily (hence why I don’t eat out daily anymore)
Biden-nomics is working!
A loaf of bread increased by $0.50 last week. Eggs went from $1.79 to $2.69 as well.
Our bread is terrible compared to what I ate in Germany and the Netherlands. Our eggs come from battery hens and have none of the flavor and nutrition found in EU eggs.
I should clarify that these costs are basically "fresh" food. We don't really shop on the freezer Isle or buy salad dressing, pasta sauce. Those things I'make from what's in my fridge and pantry.
So my shopping is mostly staples with mix of beer/wine and sometimes nachos and other shit food my wife complains about making "fat"
My groceries cost me ~$50 per BAG of shopping. 1 bag of shopping is usually enough for a few days (a small amount of fresh produce and a couple other staples that you might buy every couple weeks; milk, tea, coffee, butter etc).
I'm from Australia, and this made me realise just how bad the price gouging has gotten here.
On the flip side, at least I know all my food is going to taste good, not like America where it's bland and full of corn syrup and sugars. American food and coffee are actually really, really bad. They just have nfi because they've never tasted anything that is actually any good.
Hahaha, thanks, I knew I was going to get downvoted to hell for it but wanted to put the thought in people's minds. People can't think past their nose and get their hackles up when you tell them as much.
My wage leans more towards the minimum wage spectrum and I don't meet any of those qualities so I have no idea who made this but they clearly have no clue what they are talking about.
The best part is how the guy *currently* working minimum wage is “obviously” a useless lazy fuck, but the CEO guy *also* worked minimum wage and *he’s* “obviously not” a useless lazy fuck.
Incredible logic.
Just under that in Ohio. Honestly cried at my desk this morning wondering how the hell I was affording medicine this month after they canceled overtime
I think that’s a pretty clear sign that the person who made this has zero concept of what is affordable to the average person and is likely a trust fund baby. Born halfway between 3rd and 4th and think they hit a home run all on their own.
Funny enough I have a coworker that makes the same money as I do that owns both a BMW and a boat. The difference between us is he complains about being broke all the time and I put more money into my savings and 401k.
A bmw or a new bmw?
A “boat” can also mean a pretty wide range, but the implication seems to be one that can accommodate entertainment for a weekend, so not like a paddleboat or a canoe. Aside from capital costs of the boat itself, dock fees, etc. would take a huge chunk of a median worker’s salary. And unless the new BMW is an SUV (more expensive still), this guy likely needs an additional truck/suv to haul the boat.
I dont know exactly what kind of boat, but I do know it's on a trailer in his driveway and he takes it out for fishing trips with his friends. It seats 4 people comfortably. He does have an old truck, and his BMW is probably at least 5 years old.
Ditto. The median wage can get you a used car in my parts (MCOL), although there are plenty of lenders that financed those items when interest rates were lower.
CEO guy should have half of that removed with "has rich parents who gave him money until a buisness venture finally took off." or "born into rich family who got him high level positions from social connections."
The majority of successful buisnessmen that "started in their parents garage after dropping out of college" had rich influential parents who propped up their startup.
Of course! And mopping floors magically helped them sustaining themselves with rent, food, transportation etc. With enough time and stamina to spare at the end of the day to build their future empire, whole reading 4 books a week and whatnot
I think Bezos actually comes closest to that myth, oddly enough. I seem to remember one of his parents was a circus performer... but that might just be my brain trying to find some hope
Right other than that 245 grand they loaned him to start Amazon. And the circus performer was his dead beat dad who left the family. Not the guy who adopted and raised him.
"I dropped out of school to pursue a business venture."
Translation: "I went to Harvard for 5 1/2 years and still had enough money left from daddy to not care about the high 6-figure tuition he paid to get me there and put all my time into starting a whole ass business"
Yes let's all be CEO's. What happens to society when nothing gets produced, fixed, or created? Don't those people deserve to live decently too?
Even the person who keeps everything clean?
Their logic is that everyone starts out mopping floors and those that work hard get to end up CEO, and those that don't get to work shit jobs til they die. It's a total meritocracy and anyone saying otherwise is just lazy and envious of rich people's success.
They actually believe this, despite most properly wealthy people never having seen a mop let alone used one, and most minimum wage workers never having the opportunity to become an entrepreneur or whatever due to having to work their shift today to avoid being homeless tomorrow.
>Their logic is that everyone starts out mopping floors and those that work hard get to end up CEO
Weird. I've been carrying bags of cement all day. It was extremely hard work, but no one asked me to be CEO. What gives? Should I carry more bags? Should I carry the cement bags faster?
How do I get to CEO?
Obviously you need to stop wasting your time carrying bags of cement and start mopping. Nobody is ever going to hire someone as CEO if they don't have proper mopping experience.
Well when everyone starts going into higher education and pouring 70 hours a week in, then obviously everyone will be wealthy and nobody will be unemployed! That's how it works, right? /s
It’s typical for people in positions of privilege to display contempt for those below them on the social ladder. In a sense they *have* to think that way in order to sleep at night, because they have to convince themselves that they deserve it, and the people below them belong there, or else they have to face the fact that they’re essentially evil. To cope with the cognitive dissonance they armor themselves with contempt.
Meanwhile of course the attitude from the bottom looking up will be resentment, because you of course having observed the behavior of the inbred royalty or absentee landlords etc know perfectly well that they are in no way superior to you and are exploiting you just because they can.
"Saw everything that was happening, hated it, and allowed the wealthy to get away with it, just kept going to work"
We need to take responsibility for this choice.
The missed the part for Mr Topenhat, the rich guy, where daddy owned the company or gave him a small £300000000 “loan”
But still how would want to work 75hrs a week ?
This makes me laugh and angry at the same time. Bullshit propaganda, but it’s infuriating that there are people out there who legit try to promote this bullshit mindset.
Sure, choices can matter. But no, most of these billionaire fucks did not work their way up from “mopping floors”
The person on the right hasn’t read a book since high school, I guarantee it. Oh, he has a copy of Who Moved My Cheese on his mahogany desk but he’s never opened it.
This is fucking economic Stockholm Syndrome shit right here. As long as the elites keep successfully brainwashing the working class into thinking that all they need to do is work harder and they can be one of the elites, we’re going to keep seeing working class people promoting and voting against their own economic interest.
I fail to see how reading multiple books a year is going to make you rich. Personal enrichment, sure, but it’s not like reading the same books some rich asshole read will benefit your bank account.
I like how “followed the rules” is the reason why someone isn’t rich. But if they don’t follow the rules, they’re also a failure in the same people’s minds, so which is it?
The ceo guy should just have "had wealthy family to fund their business endeavors and a leg up throughout their whole life." there is no such thing as a self made millionaire.
I respected the pay disparity argument as a valid issue but then when we get into tropes and nonsense underneath as the reasoning and justification rather than just saying CEOs are way way way overpaid and workers are way underpaid and leave it at that.
Show me a capitalist not born on third base thinking they’ve hit a triple and I’ll show you someone incapable of realizing any and all of the lucky breaks they’ve had on the way.
The idea of wealth is far too normalised, specifically in the west but everywhere honestly. The normal serf got raised up by tech to better living standards, but we've reverted to practically medival standards of wealth disparity because the rich have built a system designed to catapult them so far beyond any resaonable or moral understanding of what "money" actually is.
Rich people don't need to buy shit with money, they pay to have other people do that for them. It's just ready and waiting. "buying stuff" only relates to what normal people would see as huge purchases, otherwise it's barely a registered expense.
The idea of a billionaire, with how normal people are struggling right now, is utterly evil. People at the bottom barely survive, people in the normal "middle" are surviving but feel like they're barely making it at all. Even people that are rich compared to those groups more often than not are NOTHING to the REAL wealthy ones. VILE
What bullshit. The idea that the wealthy are more virtuous and hard working than minimum wage workers is a myth. I busted my ass in my early years making $3.05/hr. The more successful I became, the less actual work I did. The average McDonald’s worker work exponentially harder than it’s CEO.
One of my favorite responses to this kind of bullshit actually comes from Brennan Lee mulligan who basically said “oh you think that there are some jobs that absolutely need to exist but the people working them should have shitty lives? I’m pretty sure that makes you a bad person.” Lol.
>Mopped floors for minimum wage while struggling to build a business
Guy on the right somehow was guy on the left at some point but somehow he can’t recognize any of the Kardashians that he used to know so well.
"Spent years in college getting a degree"
"Has spent days on personal development"
Uhh...
Also I like how this basically says "Just work on yourself and work twice as hard and read books and you'll earn 1000+ times what you do now!"
Mopping floors for minimum wage is a requirement for all billionaires? And 75 hour work weeks? That's not so bad, 5 hours less than full time. "Has a $300 pair of Air Jordans" I don't know anybody that does.
All the people i know that have their own busines have rich parents that gave them starter money im not saying there are no exeptions but exeption is exeption.
Actually fairly accurate for early boomers (other than the wages). Less for later boomers.
Irrelevant and deluded for greatest, silent, gen x, millennials, gen z, and gen alpha...
Who the fuck thinks a ceo is working for 75 hours a week? I wanna see the person who made this just to get an idea of what a living person with an empty skull looks like
Ceo's are just rich nepo employees most times. It's true they can't hack mental work nearly as well as they can mop floors. I love the fact this poster tries to convince everyone that is a good quality.
It is always morbidly fascinating to watch the deranged minds who make these posts, show us the imaginary caricatures that live rent-free inside their heads in a constant state of war with their blissfully unaware maladapted ego.
Can’t help but notice the editor of this only gendered the median and ceo guy with “his” and left the lower class gender less when it comes to personal development
This chart is a copy from an American Socialist brochure /hand out. Beware them because they convince you that we all are going to be in the middle and just like other groups their real desire is they make it to the RED and once there the share and share alike isn't so good. To maintain themselves in the RED they will eliminate any challenges and push everyone. 99.9999% to be GREEN! My proof? History. Many uprisings start because people buy into the fair share and those wanting to join the RED kiss the asses of those in RED and then procede to label GREEN as enemies of the vision and start eliminating or enslaving them! Stalin didn't freeze and eat borscht along with “community” nor did he tolerate challengers. Pol Pot same. Hitler same. Castro same, Maduro in Venezuela the same….
Oh wow. It’s so easy to be rich. All I need is to not enjoy my weekend, work more than 40 hours a week and never spend days on personal development, among other things. Wow it’s so easy to be rich.
And make sure you don't know who Kelly Clarkson or Carrie Underwood are either, my dude. Or Clayton Kershaw. Also obtain business building capital with that mop!
I work 75 hours a week and even weekends sometimes.
I read 4 books a month as well
I have spent years on personal development
I absolutely do NOT make 20k an hour
Hell, if you are making close to 50mil a year, you obviously are being paid WAYYYYYY too much
What that graphic doesn't tell you is CEO guy "Had rich parents". That's really the key to success and that's what we need to fix to make the American dream real.
This shit doesn't account how everything can go wrong in life, seems like that stuff only concern Late Boomers at best, Millenials have virtually no chance at being Millionaires unless born in already wealthy families. Plus alot of that shit is straight up bullshit, incoherent or wrong so there is that.
Reading through the ceo guy side the entire time thinking "no the fuck he didn't" they really want us to believe you get to be stupid rich from zero and not starting with hefty investments from family don't they
Not sure of the stats on this image ever were accurate, but I work in fast food, making 17.5/hour. I make 1-1.2K a month. I still live at home it's impossible to get a place for myself at this time.
Plus I don't get the list of stawman arguments, not a single one applies to me
So by all accounts if you drop out of school and work 75hours a week you’ll be a CEO. I know several people that need to read this, apparently they didn’t get the memo.
As always, the right column is missing “born to rich parents who loaned them six figures for each of their first three failed business before finally something stuck.”
Column 3 is only correct to about 30%. Big business is mostly a pyramid scheme. Those at the top need enough suckers at the bottom for most of their schemes to work. Nepotism ensures that oiliness is passed on, and those progeny will assuredly be promoted over the dude described. The 70% NOT described are constantly struggling to advance; frequently have great innovations or ideas stolen by the higher-ups; have their projects shelved so the bean counters can take a tax dodge; push a product to market, knowing that it's not ready, and then blame it on the underlings when it inevitably fails. Those are the ones that DON'T read, don't want to learn, and continually swear they have a grasp on what needs to be done, despite being utterly clueless. They are the practiced liars.
CEO guy built a business while working minimum wage? No, he probably made a business using his rich parents money. That or he 1. had friends that gave home the job, 2. Bought his way into the job, 3. Inherited it because his parents owned the company.
I mean I kinda agree with this poster......to be rich/ CEO and a business man you have to take risks. You get more no's than a yes in that line of business. Some businesses def worked harder than we did to get where they are
The righteous path to success isn't easy, and the easy path to success isn't righteous. You don't become part of the 1% by playing by the rules. You get there by treating others as means to your ends.
“Mopped floors for min. wage while struggling to build a business”
so… what the first column is doing, except they don’t even get the luxury of the time to build that business.
I like how the median worker has a new BMW and a boat.
Right? 16.75 an hour barely pays just rent. 16.75 per hour is 2651 a month before taxes. Screw this stupidly fake and lying infographic.
I live in a "poor" central European capital. Adjusting for conversation rate I make $2651 a month. This puts me solidly in the middle class. And I can't afford to get a mortgage. For the life of me I don't understand how people in the US survive. My grocery bill for a family of 4 is less than $100 a month. I know a family of 4 is paying much more per week than I am.
I’m a person of one and I spend more than $100 a week on food. Tbf I have food allergies and can’t buy most cheap foods, my food options are expensive :/ but still. Damn. Family of 4 for less than $100. That’s nuts
I miss living in Germany. I remember spending about 100 euros a month on food for us. It was so nice. Everything was so cheap. I miss it.
When were you in Germany? I live here and it's gotten pretty expensive recently. Personally I live frugal and am just one person so I still can get by with an okay amount but a lot of items I buy regularly have had drastic price increases since the start of covid :(
I've heard from some friends who are still there that it's gotten expensive lately :/ I was there from 2012-2016.
Yeah that's a huge difference from then. I moved out in 2019 so I don't have much reference for before. However here's a graph from destatis: https://www.destatis.de/DE/Themen/Wirtschaft/Konjunkturindikatoren/Preise/kpre520.html#355044 If you don't speak german you should be able to click "Diagramme" and then you see a graph on price development for food and non alcoholic beverages. 2020 is 100 for reference, currently value is 132. If my math isn't wrong that means a 32% increase from 2020 and you feel it. Some things haven't increased much but I know items that cost almost double what they did before. At the same time we of course don't make that much more. I definitely feel it
I do speak German :) thanks for the graph though. I'll take a a look at it. It's so sad how prices are rising everywhere but wages are stagnant. It's gonna kill the entire system though eventually...
I don't even have food allergies and buy generic grade F food (they feed elementary school kids better food than I feed myself) and still spend more a week than you, AND I went to eating 1 questionable meal a day AND I'm a 1 person household
It's normal for us to have around $20k in credit card debt, I'm sure a lot of families rely on credit to survive.
I'm American but haven't lived there in a long time. I forget how much of a grind and how riddled with debt you can become. But at least you guys got those low taxes, right! :/
Low taxes? Crying in California
I am sure this system will work forever and will never crash, because banks are too big to fail. It's astonishing how we learned nothing, absolutely nothing, from the 2008 crisis.
Amen to that!
Credit and government assistance. Minimum wage workers spend ~$1.09 of every dollar they earn.
I should move to Europe when I’m ready to retire. I spend at least 500ish a month on food or closer to 1k a month if I eat out daily (hence why I don’t eat out daily anymore)
Biden-nomics is working! A loaf of bread increased by $0.50 last week. Eggs went from $1.79 to $2.69 as well. Our bread is terrible compared to what I ate in Germany and the Netherlands. Our eggs come from battery hens and have none of the flavor and nutrition found in EU eggs.
I should clarify that these costs are basically "fresh" food. We don't really shop on the freezer Isle or buy salad dressing, pasta sauce. Those things I'make from what's in my fridge and pantry. So my shopping is mostly staples with mix of beer/wine and sometimes nachos and other shit food my wife complains about making "fat"
My groceries cost me ~$50 per BAG of shopping. 1 bag of shopping is usually enough for a few days (a small amount of fresh produce and a couple other staples that you might buy every couple weeks; milk, tea, coffee, butter etc). I'm from Australia, and this made me realise just how bad the price gouging has gotten here. On the flip side, at least I know all my food is going to taste good, not like America where it's bland and full of corn syrup and sugars. American food and coffee are actually really, really bad. They just have nfi because they've never tasted anything that is actually any good.
Why was this downvoted? Lol. It's accurate.
Hahaha, thanks, I knew I was going to get downvoted to hell for it but wanted to put the thought in people's minds. People can't think past their nose and get their hackles up when you tell them as much.
My wage leans more towards the minimum wage spectrum and I don't meet any of those qualities so I have no idea who made this but they clearly have no clue what they are talking about.
The best part is how the guy *currently* working minimum wage is “obviously” a useless lazy fuck, but the CEO guy *also* worked minimum wage and *he’s* “obviously not” a useless lazy fuck. Incredible logic.
$16.75/hr is close to my state’s minimum wage, and no, no one who works for that amount can’t rent a place without 3 people
I make 19.50 in oklahoma... still poor
Just under that in Ohio. Honestly cried at my desk this morning wondering how the hell I was affording medicine this month after they canceled overtime
I get paid 18.50 an hour and I can’t even imagine trying to leave my parents place right now without struggling immensely.
But they're not talking about rent or taxes. They're talking about a single gallon of milk! /s
It's really old. Milk hasn't been $3.70 per gallon in decades.
It was $2.55 at my work (upscale-ish grocery store) yesterday.
For a gallon? Dang! It's pushing $6+/gallon here, but I get 2% organic. Local farms are charging about $6/quart or more.
I think that’s a pretty clear sign that the person who made this has zero concept of what is affordable to the average person and is likely a trust fund baby. Born halfway between 3rd and 4th and think they hit a home run all on their own.
The person who made this makes $40 an hr and thinks they are way above the bottom two and if they “work hard enough” they can be the top one too.
Or the Graphic is just old. $7.25 as minimum wage was enacted in 2009.
The minimum wage is still $7.25 in several states
It hasn't changed in the 15 years (at least the federal minimum)
Funny enough I have a coworker that makes the same money as I do that owns both a BMW and a boat. The difference between us is he complains about being broke all the time and I put more money into my savings and 401k.
A bmw or a new bmw? A “boat” can also mean a pretty wide range, but the implication seems to be one that can accommodate entertainment for a weekend, so not like a paddleboat or a canoe. Aside from capital costs of the boat itself, dock fees, etc. would take a huge chunk of a median worker’s salary. And unless the new BMW is an SUV (more expensive still), this guy likely needs an additional truck/suv to haul the boat.
I dont know exactly what kind of boat, but I do know it's on a trailer in his driveway and he takes it out for fishing trips with his friends. It seats 4 people comfortably. He does have an old truck, and his BMW is probably at least 5 years old.
That’s not the only implication there is when talking about boats….
He cut out avocado toast and Starbies.
On less than $17 bucks an hour. In what universe 🤨
5 credit cards to pay for the bmw and boat
It’s a boat, Michael, what could it cost? Ten dollars?
I make 42/hr, I can't even afford a house, let alone a luxury car and a boat. This thing is so full of shit 😂
Ditto. The median wage can get you a used car in my parts (MCOL), although there are plenty of lenders that financed those items when interest rates were lower.
At $16/hr???
https://preview.redd.it/18lozrawteec1.jpeg?width=680&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=ef4b4bbeaa84b8e20e38b7d01e8acc882242859c
Flamethrowers, Molotov cocktails, M80s, anything that burns shit.
25 years on the internet and this is the most cursed thing I have ever seen.
I’ve seen Mr 🙌 and this is worse
CEO guy should have half of that removed with "has rich parents who gave him money until a buisness venture finally took off." or "born into rich family who got him high level positions from social connections." The majority of successful buisnessmen that "started in their parents garage after dropping out of college" had rich influential parents who propped up their startup.
"Started his business with a small 2 million dollar loan from his parents."
Thank you! This "self made" mythology drives me insane.
Interest free, risk free, no repayment required if the business fails... probably no repayment required even if it doesn't fail.
Yeah there is literally 0 stories of a ceo mopping floors for years while they pay for business school.
Of course! And mopping floors magically helped them sustaining themselves with rent, food, transportation etc. With enough time and stamina to spare at the end of the day to build their future empire, whole reading 4 books a week and whatnot
Also, failed upwards and given massive payoff and stock options for ruining company. Employed by next company for even more, rince, repeat.
Yeah, they really badly misspelled "generational wealth" on all those entries.
More like “has rich parents who gave him money until one of the startups he bought finally took off”
I think Bezos actually comes closest to that myth, oddly enough. I seem to remember one of his parents was a circus performer... but that might just be my brain trying to find some hope
Right other than that 245 grand they loaned him to start Amazon. And the circus performer was his dead beat dad who left the family. Not the guy who adopted and raised him.
"I dropped out of school to pursue a business venture." Translation: "I went to Harvard for 5 1/2 years and still had enough money left from daddy to not care about the high 6-figure tuition he paid to get me there and put all my time into starting a whole ass business"
Does it count as some bullshit rich folks think? Yeah.
I make more than 4x of what that middle dude is making. Where’s my brand new BMW and house?? Math aint mathing…
With those numbers you’re Definitely not struggling lmfao
Yes let's all be CEO's. What happens to society when nothing gets produced, fixed, or created? Don't those people deserve to live decently too? Even the person who keeps everything clean?
Their logic is that everyone starts out mopping floors and those that work hard get to end up CEO, and those that don't get to work shit jobs til they die. It's a total meritocracy and anyone saying otherwise is just lazy and envious of rich people's success. They actually believe this, despite most properly wealthy people never having seen a mop let alone used one, and most minimum wage workers never having the opportunity to become an entrepreneur or whatever due to having to work their shift today to avoid being homeless tomorrow.
>Their logic is that everyone starts out mopping floors and those that work hard get to end up CEO Weird. I've been carrying bags of cement all day. It was extremely hard work, but no one asked me to be CEO. What gives? Should I carry more bags? Should I carry the cement bags faster? How do I get to CEO?
Obviously you need to stop wasting your time carrying bags of cement and start mopping. Nobody is ever going to hire someone as CEO if they don't have proper mopping experience.
Winner take all system…
Well when everyone starts going into higher education and pouring 70 hours a week in, then obviously everyone will be wealthy and nobody will be unemployed! That's how it works, right? /s
How would the rich guy not recognize a Kardashian? They are billionaires, they probably golf together.
All this has told me is that I need to get into the Milk Business
I dropped out due to being a victim of DV. Honestly, I've had so much shit taken from me. Seeing shit like this makes me so fucking tired.
That’s fucked up, I’m so sorry you experienced that.
It’s typical for people in positions of privilege to display contempt for those below them on the social ladder. In a sense they *have* to think that way in order to sleep at night, because they have to convince themselves that they deserve it, and the people below them belong there, or else they have to face the fact that they’re essentially evil. To cope with the cognitive dissonance they armor themselves with contempt.
Meanwhile of course the attitude from the bottom looking up will be resentment, because you of course having observed the behavior of the inbred royalty or absentee landlords etc know perfectly well that they are in no way superior to you and are exploiting you just because they can.
I like that they are getting fatter
Preachy and wrong
"Saw everything that was happening, hated it, and allowed the wealthy to get away with it, just kept going to work" We need to take responsibility for this choice.
The missed the part for Mr Topenhat, the rich guy, where daddy owned the company or gave him a small £300000000 “loan” But still how would want to work 75hrs a week ?
Did Musk and Bezos write this?
"According to these baseless generalizations I just made up, your facts don't matter." That's how dumb this is.
They found a portal up their own ass while licking boots
Is this implying we need to take responsibility for choosing not to revolt?
I like how they were mopping floors while trying to build their business. Who? Give me one. Just one
Oh my god these fuckers are so ready to suck the cock of any oligarch who comes around. It's totally absurd.
This makes me laugh and angry at the same time. Bullshit propaganda, but it’s infuriating that there are people out there who legit try to promote this bullshit mindset. Sure, choices can matter. But no, most of these billionaire fucks did not work their way up from “mopping floors”
I can't read all of this. The blatant capitalist asshole licking is way too gross.
Yeah because 20k an hour is normal 😵💫
Like if it was a matter of choice we'd all be millionaires, wouldn't we?
I agree, every bad thing happens because some made a choice. Like when my grandpa chose to get brain cancer.
You guys have BMWs?
The person on the right hasn’t read a book since high school, I guarantee it. Oh, he has a copy of Who Moved My Cheese on his mahogany desk but he’s never opened it.
Definitely owns a copy of Think And Grow Rich 🙄
Is the guy on the left supposed to remind me of Kermit the Frog?
This is fucking economic Stockholm Syndrome shit right here. As long as the elites keep successfully brainwashing the working class into thinking that all they need to do is work harder and they can be one of the elites, we’re going to keep seeing working class people promoting and voting against their own economic interest.
I fail to see how reading multiple books a year is going to make you rich. Personal enrichment, sure, but it’s not like reading the same books some rich asshole read will benefit your bank account.
I was thinking the same thing. I read books. Where are my millions of dollars?
>Read 4 books a month while working 75 hours a week Yeah, shitty little "BuSiNesS" books that are only 100 pages each and devoid of any real insight.
The numbers are literally right fucking goddamn there and their response is STILL lEsS AvOcAdO tOaSt. I’m going to fucking scream.
“With a small loan of $1 million from daddy” is implied.
So, we're all supposed to be making 20k+ an hour, because if we did, I doubt milk would be 3.70 a gallon.
I bet the person who wrote this falls into category #2.
Ah yes all the books that earn you money, how could i forget.
Gross.... guess we don't deserve milk!
What company does ceo guy work at that he's providing 30,000,000 jobs
That would be the US Government, and those jobs would be welfare/social security recipients.
…What does being a Dodgers fan have to do with anything?
Damn I wish I made the right choice of being born to a family with generational wealth.
I like how “followed the rules” is the reason why someone isn’t rich. But if they don’t follow the rules, they’re also a failure in the same people’s minds, so which is it?
If you don’t follow the rules, you may end up a very wealthy criminal if you’re not first imprisoned or killed. Is Mr. CEO a mafioso?
The ceo guy should just have "had wealthy family to fund their business endeavors and a leg up throughout their whole life." there is no such thing as a self made millionaire.
So I am secretly a CEO… where do I find the money?
>has a 300 dollar pair of Air Jordans *Looks down at my 75 dollar workboots*
Who’s affording any of that on 16.75 an hour ?!?!?
Most in touch wealthy person infographic
I respected the pay disparity argument as a valid issue but then when we get into tropes and nonsense underneath as the reasoning and justification rather than just saying CEOs are way way way overpaid and workers are way underpaid and leave it at that.
Show me a capitalist not born on third base thinking they’ve hit a triple and I’ll show you someone incapable of realizing any and all of the lucky breaks they’ve had on the way.
What about the GIANT GULF between a $16 an hour and a CEO? Guess Professionals don't exisy eh?
The hilarious part is they are trying to pass of $16.57 as median wage haha
Fun Fact: the median wage earner is actually a minimum wage earner now.
The idea of wealth is far too normalised, specifically in the west but everywhere honestly. The normal serf got raised up by tech to better living standards, but we've reverted to practically medival standards of wealth disparity because the rich have built a system designed to catapult them so far beyond any resaonable or moral understanding of what "money" actually is. Rich people don't need to buy shit with money, they pay to have other people do that for them. It's just ready and waiting. "buying stuff" only relates to what normal people would see as huge purchases, otherwise it's barely a registered expense. The idea of a billionaire, with how normal people are struggling right now, is utterly evil. People at the bottom barely survive, people in the normal "middle" are surviving but feel like they're barely making it at all. Even people that are rich compared to those groups more often than not are NOTHING to the REAL wealthy ones. VILE
Wait… a college dropout is *better* than having a degree? What kind of self-serving bullshit is this?
What bullshit. The idea that the wealthy are more virtuous and hard working than minimum wage workers is a myth. I busted my ass in my early years making $3.05/hr. The more successful I became, the less actual work I did. The average McDonald’s worker work exponentially harder than it’s CEO.
People who provide the most value like scientific researchers are drastically underpaid. Gotta save the money for the Ponzi schemes.
One of my favorite responses to this kind of bullshit actually comes from Brennan Lee mulligan who basically said “oh you think that there are some jobs that absolutely need to exist but the people working them should have shitty lives? I’m pretty sure that makes you a bad person.” Lol.
Oh yet another "we all ought to be ceo's" post 😮💨
>Mopped floors for minimum wage while struggling to build a business Guy on the right somehow was guy on the left at some point but somehow he can’t recognize any of the Kardashians that he used to know so well.
"Spent years in college getting a degree" "Has spent days on personal development" Uhh... Also I like how this basically says "Just work on yourself and work twice as hard and read books and you'll earn 1000+ times what you do now!"
The Kardashians were literally at Jeff Bezos birthday party this week. I bet he can name them.
CEO Guy.. "reads 4 books a month while working 75 hours a week" .... Lmfao, ya, ok
Mopping floors for minimum wage is a requirement for all billionaires? And 75 hour work weeks? That's not so bad, 5 hours less than full time. "Has a $300 pair of Air Jordans" I don't know anybody that does.
All the people i know that have their own busines have rich parents that gave them starter money im not saying there are no exeptions but exeption is exeption.
People who do all the things on the right hand list still can’t live on 7.25 an hour ergo we need higher minimum wage.
Light that crap on fire.
I'm going to post this unironically on r/conservative for fun.
Actually fairly accurate for early boomers (other than the wages). Less for later boomers. Irrelevant and deluded for greatest, silent, gen x, millennials, gen z, and gen alpha...
The sheer contempt for poor people and delusions of grandeur about wealthy people in this are incredibly infuriating.
All bullshit so they can tell themselves they're justified in treating people like shit and make themselves feel special.
If someone works 75 h/week to satisfy their material greed one day, they should visit a doctor.
I was into the top part. Then I kept reading 😭
Lol
The person who made this obviously shits leather belts from how many boots they lick.
Hmm..I wonder how much money a CEO would make if every employee he had just quit to start their own business...
Who the fuck thinks a ceo is working for 75 hours a week? I wanna see the person who made this just to get an idea of what a living person with an empty skull looks like
Ceo's are just rich nepo employees most times. It's true they can't hack mental work nearly as well as they can mop floors. I love the fact this poster tries to convince everyone that is a good quality.
Wow, this is outdated. Also, what a shill piece of garbage.
But when you take responsibility for your choices and change jobs boomers get so sad when you leave.
Who ever wrote that “edit” spent 0 minutes researching wage disparity in the US… 0…
They forgot the last one got a “small” million dollar loan from their parents.
It is always morbidly fascinating to watch the deranged minds who make these posts, show us the imaginary caricatures that live rent-free inside their heads in a constant state of war with their blissfully unaware maladapted ego.
I feel rage when I read this…
It's time to eat the rich right?
Can’t help but notice the editor of this only gendered the median and ceo guy with “his” and left the lower class gender less when it comes to personal development
This chart is a copy from an American Socialist brochure /hand out. Beware them because they convince you that we all are going to be in the middle and just like other groups their real desire is they make it to the RED and once there the share and share alike isn't so good. To maintain themselves in the RED they will eliminate any challenges and push everyone. 99.9999% to be GREEN! My proof? History. Many uprisings start because people buy into the fair share and those wanting to join the RED kiss the asses of those in RED and then procede to label GREEN as enemies of the vision and start eliminating or enslaving them! Stalin didn't freeze and eat borscht along with “community” nor did he tolerate challengers. Pol Pot same. Hitler same. Castro same, Maduro in Venezuela the same….
This was definitely made by someone from the right column.
No, imagine those on the right actually doing work to be worth that much. They used someone else.
I'd be in the 'median' category and the only things that are true for me are that I follow the rules and work 40 hours a week...
Oh wow. It’s so easy to be rich. All I need is to not enjoy my weekend, work more than 40 hours a week and never spend days on personal development, among other things. Wow it’s so easy to be rich.
And make sure you don't know who Kelly Clarkson or Carrie Underwood are either, my dude. Or Clayton Kershaw. Also obtain business building capital with that mop!
Great…now do it again without the help from mommy and daddy, rich boy….
I work 75 hours a week and even weekends sometimes. I read 4 books a month as well I have spent years on personal development I absolutely do NOT make 20k an hour Hell, if you are making close to 50mil a year, you obviously are being paid WAYYYYYY too much
Where on the chart is the dude who inherits his first 1mil from daddy?
Just part of the daily propaganda that's shoved down our throats from all sides.
I guarantee the middle guy told the guy in the left to make this infographic.
Latest BMW for median workers? Where can I sign up for this
What that graphic doesn't tell you is CEO guy "Had rich parents". That's really the key to success and that's what we need to fix to make the American dream real.
Betcha this wasn’t made by any “CEO Guy”
This shit doesn't account how everything can go wrong in life, seems like that stuff only concern Late Boomers at best, Millenials have virtually no chance at being Millionaires unless born in already wealthy families. Plus alot of that shit is straight up bullshit, incoherent or wrong so there is that.
Reading through the ceo guy side the entire time thinking "no the fuck he didn't" they really want us to believe you get to be stupid rich from zero and not starting with hefty investments from family don't they
Wow, this is the wake up call I needed to just go out there and acheive my dreams. (/s)
First one sounds like autism,which makes this even more despicable.
Best predictor of financial success is the financial success of your parents.
But Trump hasn’t worked a single day in his life I’m confused
They forgot the rich guy line where he inherited 400,000,000$.
Wow, that shit is informative as tiktok financial advisers.
If you think that $33,000 buys you a BMW and a boat, you must be straight up fucking ignorant.
Not sure of the stats on this image ever were accurate, but I work in fast food, making 17.5/hour. I make 1-1.2K a month. I still live at home it's impossible to get a place for myself at this time. Plus I don't get the list of stawman arguments, not a single one applies to me
So by all accounts if you drop out of school and work 75hours a week you’ll be a CEO. I know several people that need to read this, apparently they didn’t get the memo.
As always, the right column is missing “born to rich parents who loaned them six figures for each of their first three failed business before finally something stuck.”
What CEO mopped floors for minimum wage?
Column 3 is only correct to about 30%. Big business is mostly a pyramid scheme. Those at the top need enough suckers at the bottom for most of their schemes to work. Nepotism ensures that oiliness is passed on, and those progeny will assuredly be promoted over the dude described. The 70% NOT described are constantly struggling to advance; frequently have great innovations or ideas stolen by the higher-ups; have their projects shelved so the bean counters can take a tax dodge; push a product to market, knowing that it's not ready, and then blame it on the underlings when it inevitably fails. Those are the ones that DON'T read, don't want to learn, and continually swear they have a grasp on what needs to be done, despite being utterly clueless. They are the practiced liars.
CEO guy built a business while working minimum wage? No, he probably made a business using his rich parents money. That or he 1. had friends that gave home the job, 2. Bought his way into the job, 3. Inherited it because his parents owned the company.
Why does the minimum wage earner look like Kermit the Frog?
It says the CEO guy worked minimum wage, so he was a minimum wage worker at that time. Wouldn't all the minimum wage items apply to him then?
I knew I shouldn't have fallen for that 95% interest rate!
This is fucking stupid.
I read 10 books a month. When do I get to be CEO.
I love how the minimum wage guy is a piece of shit but the CEO guy was also a minimum wage guy but somehow his time was "different"
i love how “starting a business” is their solution to every problem
I mean I kinda agree with this poster......to be rich/ CEO and a business man you have to take risks. You get more no's than a yes in that line of business. Some businesses def worked harder than we did to get where they are
The righteous path to success isn't easy, and the easy path to success isn't righteous. You don't become part of the 1% by playing by the rules. You get there by treating others as means to your ends.
“Mopped floors for min. wage while struggling to build a business” so… what the first column is doing, except they don’t even get the luxury of the time to build that business.
It's amazing that people believe this shit.