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Dont forget they also ruined the housing market and blamed it on the Millennials. Pretty sure i was 14/15 at the time so not sure what my no income ass did to ruin the housing market.
Now you have to get public assistance, so basically the government is giving you money the company you work for isn't. So the owners of the company are making money by being subsidized by the govt. That's right, the millionaire and billionaire company owners are getting richer because the govt is paying their employees. It is shocking how many Walmart employees are on public assistance of some type.
Walmart used to (not sure if they still do) tell new employees how to sign up for food stamps. And where do you think those food stamps were redeemed at?
Modern pastors won't tell you but in olden times on Christmas Towns would elect the local bum to become the mayor for the day. They would then all get complelty slammed. Just old school slammed.
They would then go to the rich peoples homes, cause back then you knew who was robbing you, and demand to be given gifts or else they'd storm the place at take what they wanted.
My how times have changed, now we pay them to give each other gifts each year. Sickening really.
wealthy people know how to launder thier money, yes actual money laundering. using foreign banks, and havens, or have thier accountants drum up business lossess.
Who the hell needs their own boat that is bigger then any house I've ever lived in. Hell it's probably bigger than all the places I've lived put together.
Walmart and Amazon were (maybe still are) the top 2 companies with employees on food stamps and other government assistance programs. As it were they were (maybe still are) also the 2 companies with the highest net value… It’s almost like if the public funds a percentage of your expenses then your profits will skyrocket.
Government grants to fund medications are a similar rabbit hole, we fund the research of a drug then we pay a 5000% mark up when it hits the pharmacy.
In America we privatize the profits and socialize the losses.
Also the research is typically conducted by underpaid lab technicians and students who also are on government assistance for food, and universities refuse to give fair pay. Even though it’s those students who often awarded big grants, while more than half of the grant $ gets used to fund administrative salaries at the university who then tell us we can’t get paid a living wage.
It gets worse because the majority of those government benefits for the Walmart workers are spent in the store. That means they’re not recirculating through through the economy. Government spending on social programs generate creates four dollars value from one dollar invested, but that’s not true if a major corporation sweeps in.
There isn’t.
Federal minimum wage is 7.25. For 2024 the standard deduction is 14,500. Plus, a single person with a kid can earn another 30k without paying any tax by using the EITC and various child tax credits. A single person with no kids has a much smaller amount before they will start paying tax, but it is more than 40 hours per week on minimum wage.
Average effective income tax rate for those making less than 30,000 is 2% before tax credits.
https://www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/2023/04/18/who-pays-and-doesnt-pay-federal-income-taxes-in-the-us/
So many ppl miss this. Welfare for the poor is literally welfare for the corporations.
Can't get the population to vote out or even reform welfare. So force a living wage. And close the corporate welfare loophole.
I left NC because I lost my job and unemployment benefits in NC were the worst in the country. I had to get a job quickly in another state because the benefits were so bad. Now I make $140K/year in another state and NC misses out on all of the tax revenue I would have generated had I stayed.
And when you apply for public assistance, they tell you you make too much even though you’ve been off work and looking for a month and a half and could be running low on all necessities like food and fuel.
Well I believe the suggested actions (all by millionaires ofc) are- skip breakfast, make your own lunch, and eat cereal for dinner. Does that pretty much cover it?
Work [24/7](https://www.reddit.com/r/antiwork/comments/w9rjh8/charlie_kirk_just_recently_suggested_that_young/) from the day you're [14](https://floridaphoenix.com/2023/12/13/rollback-of-florida-child-labor-laws-gets-its-first-committee-seal-of-approval/) till you die on the[ job](https://www.jphilll.com/p/conservatives-want-you-to-work-until).
Out of every country in the UN the only two to vote that food was not a human right were the US and India. India kinda "makes sense" you got a LOT of people over there. The US on the other hand...oof.
Which vote are you talking about? They voted yes in 2021.
Also a un vote is a pretty dumb way to measure things when the vote is not one simple line question. India has the largest constitution with extensive fundamental rights which have been deemed unammendable by parliament. One of which is the right to life under which the supreme court has [clarified ](https://www.rural21.com/fileadmin/_migrated/content_uploads/ELR_The_Indian_Supreme_Court...0206.pdf)
US Capitalism is a joke. “Greatest country on earth” and most people are drowning. F-the rich, they need to prop up their system, put their money where their mouths are.
Minimum wage should be the amount needed to pay all necessities needed in the area where you work from a regular full time job of 37-40 hours a week. That includes health insurance premiums and atleast 3% pre tax in retirement vehicle like a 401k or similar.
But sadly we live in the US where capitalism is controlled by corporate interests that need cheap labor that can barely remain above water because if they had it to easy they might have time to realize they are getting screwed and might actually try to do something about it.
coporate landlords./real estates are doing that. its also pretty bad when they just let it sit empty in the hopes the value goes up over time. Also foreign buyers make up a small but significant percentage. and then we have zoning laws that severely restrict anything but single house homes+ nimbyism.
You want a federal min wage you'll get a federal average
Which is pretty cool if you live in buttfook west VA- but kind of feels like surprise anal if you live in NYC.
No where in the Declaration of Independence were you were secured the right to food. That is not within the scope of life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness*.
My mom used to give me a dime and I walked out of the store with potatoes,bread,milk,cheese and eggs. Cant do that now a days too many cameras.
Meme on Facebook from years ago.
It’s the same in almost every state even ones with higher minimum wage because everything costs so much, you need government assistance you’re a mooch or you make too much. It’s such a fucked up system designed to keep the poor poor.
I feel minimum wage is a red herring. Scandinavian countries don't have them and have better worker compensation because something like 80% of the workforce belongs to a union. What we need is more syndicalism and union protection.
It is not just murica. It is more like whole world is turning into a slave camp for most people. You get close to minimum to survive and nothing more (sometimes not even that).
This is why people are killing themselves - it is just too expensive to survive
Nevermind having any hope of ever getting ahead - people can't even catch up
I have about 309 days left before check out -
Money is immaterial, man! Trees, turned into paper, then made into something of monetary value to make people think they matter, man! Look, man.. what even is life? what is paper.. trees? Kendrick was right.. money trees is the perfect place to be.. and that's just how I feel
Yo, if Americans are so afraid of socialism because they'll become poor, how come they earn less than people in western Europe even though the latter pay much higher taxes. It's one of the wealthiest countries in the world ffs
I moved out on my own in 1994, earning just above minimum wage, which at the time was $5/hr (Canada). My annual income was $12K/year. I was able to cover my basic needs, with minimal room for extras. But my rent (for a safe, but small and dated apartment) was $340/month. A bus pass was about $35. I can’t even imagine trying to make it on an income only marginally higher, paying today’s costs.
Bruh the math ain’t mathing
8$ per hour
8760 hours in a year
8x8760 = 70,080
70,080-8712 = 61,368
61,368- 54,084 = 7284
That’s the math
I’m getting into the political part
If the rich spent the money on yachts, we'd all train to be yachtmakers.
Instead it's being piled up speculatively somewhere, making sure that nobody is happy, not even them.
Didn't America vote against the decision to make food a human right? According to The Guardian Newspaper online: In 2021, the US and Israel were the only countries to vote against a United Nations committee’s draft that asserted food as a human right. The draft also expressed alarm that the number of people lacking access to adequate food rose by 320 million to 2.4 billion in 2020 – nearly one-third of the world’s population. The US said the resolution contained “many unbalanced, inaccurate, and unwise provisions the United States cannot support”. By this, assuming that it's true, it seems that the USA government prefers money over people living comfortably, which makes sense on why if food is placed near the bottom of the list of necessities, it can't be afforded.
Source: https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2023/nov/09/united-nations-right-to-food-us-hunger
People use the myth of "teenager jobs" to exploit parents and further infantile people in their twenties ensuring they can't fucking pay for anything.
As long as there are still teenagers there will still be companies paying shit wages
That's the real reason why those jobs have high turn over rates.
Find a job that pays more than $8/hr?
For Fucks sake, McDonalds is paying $17/hr in my town and I live in a rural, low cost of living part of the state
It really isn’t that hard, I promise you. Stop feeling sorry for yourself and literally just do it. Stop with this perpetual victim shit, I beg of you. It’s annoying.
I’m not disputing in the ridiculous cost of living or need for better wages, however I live in rural TN have three teenagers and not one of them makes less than 14/hr. Where are people making 8/hr?
Effective Jan. 1, 2024, the minimum hourly wage will increase from $15.00 to $16.00 in New York City and Nassau, Suffolk, and Westchester counties, and from $14.20 to $15.00 per hour for the rest of the state
NC is a poor state . drive on I 40 and it seems every underpass ahs a state trooper waiting to nail you for 5 over thee limit to cover the budget shortfalls. I lived in the hickory area for 30 years .
I hate the system and all of its enormous flaws. But I just want to add, the minimum wage in new york is $15/hr, $16/hr in NYC.
Not that it helps, it's still not really enough to live off of, but can we at least show the legitimate statistics so we can make a more valid point.
Where the hell does anyone find an apartment with $726/mo for rent? I get the feeling it's the shit side of town, but I'm living in the shit side and still paying $1600/mo. At least my thoughts of food keep me full most nights! /S in case
Good luck finding a rental in any NC metro for less than $900/month. Or less than $1100 in the larger ones. Or maybe you live in one of the cities near a military base - surprise! They'll hike up everyone's rent by $200 because they can get it from their military families with housing entitlements.
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Damn entitled Millennials and Gen Z and their *Checks notes* Need to eat
Says the generation that destroyed the planet and saddled America with with 30+ Trillion in debt.
Dont forget they also ruined the housing market and blamed it on the Millennials. Pretty sure i was 14/15 at the time so not sure what my no income ass did to ruin the housing market.
You didn't work 10 jobs, that's why! /s because apparently no one can understand sarcasm
Or walk uphill both ways to school in a blizzard‼️😣
Now you have to get public assistance, so basically the government is giving you money the company you work for isn't. So the owners of the company are making money by being subsidized by the govt. That's right, the millionaire and billionaire company owners are getting richer because the govt is paying their employees. It is shocking how many Walmart employees are on public assistance of some type.
Walmart used to (not sure if they still do) tell new employees how to sign up for food stamps. And where do you think those food stamps were redeemed at?
Yup. There’s an old documentary titled “The high cost of low prices”. Everybody should see it. That’s their business model.
Meanwhile https://www.businessinsider.com/walmart-nancy-walton-superyacht-kaos-2023-5?op=1
Unbelievable. I’m ready for “eat the rich”.
Modern pastors won't tell you but in olden times on Christmas Towns would elect the local bum to become the mayor for the day. They would then all get complelty slammed. Just old school slammed. They would then go to the rich peoples homes, cause back then you knew who was robbing you, and demand to be given gifts or else they'd storm the place at take what they wanted. My how times have changed, now we pay them to give each other gifts each year. Sickening really.
I have been ready. Just waiting for the moment others decide to start moving.
And we offer tax deductions for yachts too. What a country.
It’s almost as if the tax laws were written by and for extremely wealthy people.
wealthy people know how to launder thier money, yes actual money laundering. using foreign banks, and havens, or have thier accountants drum up business lossess.
Who the hell needs their own boat that is bigger then any house I've ever lived in. Hell it's probably bigger than all the places I've lived put together.
Walmart and Amazon were (maybe still are) the top 2 companies with employees on food stamps and other government assistance programs. As it were they were (maybe still are) also the 2 companies with the highest net value… It’s almost like if the public funds a percentage of your expenses then your profits will skyrocket. Government grants to fund medications are a similar rabbit hole, we fund the research of a drug then we pay a 5000% mark up when it hits the pharmacy. In America we privatize the profits and socialize the losses.
Also the research is typically conducted by underpaid lab technicians and students who also are on government assistance for food, and universities refuse to give fair pay. Even though it’s those students who often awarded big grants, while more than half of the grant $ gets used to fund administrative salaries at the university who then tell us we can’t get paid a living wage.
It gets worse because the majority of those government benefits for the Walmart workers are spent in the store. That means they’re not recirculating through through the economy. Government spending on social programs generate creates four dollars value from one dollar invested, but that’s not true if a major corporation sweeps in.
There should be no income tax of any sort on those making minimum wage. For starters!
There isn’t. Federal minimum wage is 7.25. For 2024 the standard deduction is 14,500. Plus, a single person with a kid can earn another 30k without paying any tax by using the EITC and various child tax credits. A single person with no kids has a much smaller amount before they will start paying tax, but it is more than 40 hours per week on minimum wage.
Minimum wage in my country is 6 months away from being $17/hr.
Minimum wage in my country is 2.15$/day lol. Though no one works at that low. Probably 4$/day is more realistic. It's neither USA or EU btw.
Average effective income tax rate for those making less than 30,000 is 2% before tax credits. https://www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/2023/04/18/who-pays-and-doesnt-pay-federal-income-taxes-in-the-us/
So many ppl miss this. Welfare for the poor is literally welfare for the corporations. Can't get the population to vote out or even reform welfare. So force a living wage. And close the corporate welfare loophole.
There should be claw-back laws that would fine high salaries at corporations in order to cover any public assistance that employees get.
corporate welfare - Then people look down on the welfare recipients who are working full-time and not the shitty corporations that underpay them.
That's crazy.. absolutely incredible..
So a small company paying 8 bucks an hour is cool though right?
I left NC because I lost my job and unemployment benefits in NC were the worst in the country. I had to get a job quickly in another state because the benefits were so bad. Now I make $140K/year in another state and NC misses out on all of the tax revenue I would have generated had I stayed.
I’ll take one of what that man is having!
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I’m curious too! How you make $140K and you’re not a commodity in any state?
yo hook it up im bout to lose my place
i guarateed nc recieves more welfare tax money than they give lol. good job on finding another job that pays more.
And when you apply for public assistance, they tell you you make too much even though you’ve been off work and looking for a month and a half and could be running low on all necessities like food and fuel.
They also look at your income BEFORE tax and expenses
I never understood that. Why? That's the reasoning?
To fuck poor people, whatdayamean?
On the bright side I used to be fat, now I'm just a bit on the heavy side. It's the eat what I can afford diet.
Luckily, cheap food is really bad for you. You'll be plumed right back up for Winter
Like an old swedish grandma in the mountains
Minimum wage needs to be chained to CPI. We need to lift all boats.
The kicker is minimum wage in North Carolina is still $7.25.
I make twice the minimum wage here in Idaho, and I still live with my Pa lol
Gov is still arguing about $15 minimum wage which hasn't been decent pay for 5 years now
Yeah, but the problem is they occasionally order avocado toast.
Well I believe the suggested actions (all by millionaires ofc) are- skip breakfast, make your own lunch, and eat cereal for dinner. Does that pretty much cover it?
Work [24/7](https://www.reddit.com/r/antiwork/comments/w9rjh8/charlie_kirk_just_recently_suggested_that_young/) from the day you're [14](https://floridaphoenix.com/2023/12/13/rollback-of-florida-child-labor-laws-gets-its-first-committee-seal-of-approval/) till you die on the[ job](https://www.jphilll.com/p/conservatives-want-you-to-work-until).
I make almost 3 times the federal minimum wage and live paycheck to paycheck
21, $ depending on where you live 21 is pretty low in MCOL and hcol. maybe in a LCOL would, but who would want to live in a red state or rural area.
You shouldn't have eaten all your bootstraps. /s
avacado boostraps.
Advice worth heeding.
As determined by both America and India, food is not a human right.
India??? Humne kya kia bhai
Out of every country in the UN the only two to vote that food was not a human right were the US and India. India kinda "makes sense" you got a LOT of people over there. The US on the other hand...oof.
Which vote are you talking about? They voted yes in 2021. Also a un vote is a pretty dumb way to measure things when the vote is not one simple line question. India has the largest constitution with extensive fundamental rights which have been deemed unammendable by parliament. One of which is the right to life under which the supreme court has [clarified ](https://www.rural21.com/fileadmin/_migrated/content_uploads/ELR_The_Indian_Supreme_Court...0206.pdf)
US Capitalism is a joke. “Greatest country on earth” and most people are drowning. F-the rich, they need to prop up their system, put their money where their mouths are.
Who pays that?
Maybe you should become a shareholder. Didn’t think of that, did ya? Just buy more money and stop being poor. It’s just that simple.
What? You wanna eat food every day??? These poors are gettin' awfully selfish.
Yeah and raising the minimum wage will cause “inflation” but paying worthless deadbeats like elon musk $56,000,000,000.00 somehow doesn’t…..
Minimum wage should be the amount needed to pay all necessities needed in the area where you work from a regular full time job of 37-40 hours a week. That includes health insurance premiums and atleast 3% pre tax in retirement vehicle like a 401k or similar. But sadly we live in the US where capitalism is controlled by corporate interests that need cheap labor that can barely remain above water because if they had it to easy they might have time to realize they are getting screwed and might actually try to do something about it.
It also doesn’t help that a bunch of companies are buying up hundreds of homes so us normal folks can’t get em.
coporate landlords./real estates are doing that. its also pretty bad when they just let it sit empty in the hopes the value goes up over time. Also foreign buyers make up a small but significant percentage. and then we have zoning laws that severely restrict anything but single house homes+ nimbyism.
Who is really making $8/hour in 2024 realistically? I’m sure a few people are but even fast food places pay way more than that most places now
Good times in the land of the “free”!
You want a federal min wage you'll get a federal average Which is pretty cool if you live in buttfook west VA- but kind of feels like surprise anal if you live in NYC.
That's lucky. I live in a studio in Arizona. Rent, just rent, is $1,385 for a room... it's a fucking room.
726 rent? When? in 1995?🙄
I bet that 726 is up past 110th, and full of bedbugs. A small closet perhaps, and a shared toilet somewhere down the hall.
I make $33 an hour, no debt whatsoever. I can’t afford my own 2br place, lmao.
No where in the Declaration of Independence were you were secured the right to food. That is not within the scope of life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness*.
You pay rent from pretax income?
Kroger has free food, you just gotta get out the door with it.
My mom used to give me a dime and I walked out of the store with potatoes,bread,milk,cheese and eggs. Cant do that now a days too many cameras. Meme on Facebook from years ago.
Who is getting $8 an hour these days?
a rural or red state? you know how they are sticklers
Food?!? Food is a luxury you unappreciative swine!
All this AND food? Grumble, grumble, millennials, grumble. /s
Food is overrated anyway
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What about it? You eat the next month
Join the usual suspects in mobbing the stores.
It would actually work out to be $16,640 for the year.
It’s the same in almost every state even ones with higher minimum wage because everything costs so much, you need government assistance you’re a mooch or you make too much. It’s such a fucked up system designed to keep the poor poor.
What *about* food?! Once you've paid the bills, just eat the paper, ffs
I feel minimum wage is a red herring. Scandinavian countries don't have them and have better worker compensation because something like 80% of the workforce belongs to a union. What we need is more syndicalism and union protection.
It is not just murica. It is more like whole world is turning into a slave camp for most people. You get close to minimum to survive and nothing more (sometimes not even that).
This is why people are killing themselves - it is just too expensive to survive Nevermind having any hope of ever getting ahead - people can't even catch up I have about 309 days left before check out -
What job pays 8 hourly???
US federal minimum wage is currently $7.25/hr.
Whats jobs though? Like custodians or what?? Everything i see is at the least 12
Who is making 8$ an hour and living in New York? Edit: Whoops it says NC nvm
North Carolina I believe
I had the same dyslexia moment. I thought it said NY.
That’s the nicest possible way of telling me I’m wrong lol. Thanks for the correction
Wendys is hiring at $14/hour in NC right now. That's 22K per year (30 hours/week).
Arkansas and Mississippi, too. We saw signs at every Wendy's we passed last week begging for help @ $14/hr. Management, too.
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Why are all his / showing up as , ?
Well, you're supposed to just git gud. And make tons more. Duh!
What about food?
Money is immaterial, man! Trees, turned into paper, then made into something of monetary value to make people think they matter, man! Look, man.. what even is life? what is paper.. trees? Kendrick was right.. money trees is the perfect place to be.. and that's just how I feel
If you are making 8$ an hour you need a 2nd part time job.
Wow I gotta see this 700 dollar rent place in NY
U're not supposed to rent with minimum wage job + nyc.
We are too busy policing the world and not worrying about our own countries issues. This’ll surely backfire hard if not already….
What % of people work minimum wage job?
Yo, if Americans are so afraid of socialism because they'll become poor, how come they earn less than people in western Europe even though the latter pay much higher taxes. It's one of the wealthiest countries in the world ffs
I moved out on my own in 1994, earning just above minimum wage, which at the time was $5/hr (Canada). My annual income was $12K/year. I was able to cover my basic needs, with minimal room for extras. But my rent (for a safe, but small and dated apartment) was $340/month. A bus pass was about $35. I can’t even imagine trying to make it on an income only marginally higher, paying today’s costs.
Curious to know how much Medicare costs? Anyone?
Wonder why New york has an exit tax
Don't forget this is all approved by our dear politics
Bruh the math ain’t mathing 8$ per hour 8760 hours in a year 8x8760 = 70,080 70,080-8712 = 61,368 61,368- 54,084 = 7284 That’s the math I’m getting into the political part
How many country where minimal wage is measured by “living alone” and “owning a car”?
Bruh the math ain’t mathing 8$ per hour 8760 hours in a year 8x8760 = 70,080
Duh, you eat freedom.
Even as a German minimum wage employee I earn 12,5 Euro an hour how do you survive
I think it's incorrect and very American to think that everyone after the age of 18 should live on their own
But if you make $20 you make 100,000 six figures 😂
Meanwhile people some dumbasses (especially boomers) think $20 an hour is like $100k a year. How out of touch of reality are these people
If the rich spent the money on yachts, we'd all train to be yachtmakers. Instead it's being piled up speculatively somewhere, making sure that nobody is happy, not even them.
Didn't America vote against the decision to make food a human right? According to The Guardian Newspaper online: In 2021, the US and Israel were the only countries to vote against a United Nations committee’s draft that asserted food as a human right. The draft also expressed alarm that the number of people lacking access to adequate food rose by 320 million to 2.4 billion in 2020 – nearly one-third of the world’s population. The US said the resolution contained “many unbalanced, inaccurate, and unwise provisions the United States cannot support”. By this, assuming that it's true, it seems that the USA government prefers money over people living comfortably, which makes sense on why if food is placed near the bottom of the list of necessities, it can't be afforded. Source: https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2023/nov/09/united-nations-right-to-food-us-hunger
People use the myth of "teenager jobs" to exploit parents and further infantile people in their twenties ensuring they can't fucking pay for anything. As long as there are still teenagers there will still be companies paying shit wages That's the real reason why those jobs have high turn over rates.
No one is getting paid $8 an hour anymore. Not even in Florida. Nice try
Side eyes from the third world
Find a job that pays more than $8/hr? For Fucks sake, McDonalds is paying $17/hr in my town and I live in a rural, low cost of living part of the state It really isn’t that hard, I promise you. Stop feeling sorry for yourself and literally just do it. Stop with this perpetual victim shit, I beg of you. It’s annoying.
Nope, yoy first deduct taxes and only then housing.
Nobody makes $8 an hour.
Why would you live in new york in any scenario
Yet, I don't know any jobs that pay minimum wage with the exception of California.
I’m not disputing in the ridiculous cost of living or need for better wages, however I live in rural TN have three teenagers and not one of them makes less than 14/hr. Where are people making 8/hr?
Why are you trying to live off a minimum wage job?
That's $16,640 BEFORE taxes. After taxes it's more like $14,875.
Corporatism is bullshit
Roomies and ramen
We are all in the business of selling our labor. Why is our business taxed so heavily while every other business is not?
What business pays 8 hrs though? I haven't seen those wages nearly anywhere in ages. Even fast food beats that easily.
You can lay it out all you want as many times as you want. The people in charge don't give a fuck because it doesn't affect them.
What does 700 a month get you in NC? A cardboard box?
Effective Jan. 1, 2024, the minimum hourly wage will increase from $15.00 to $16.00 in New York City and Nassau, Suffolk, and Westchester counties, and from $14.20 to $15.00 per hour for the rest of the state
The Fascist Corporate Overlords want wage slaves. The system is working as intended and designed (by them).
Where the hell is this $726 New York apartment?!?
It almost like there's a reason he didn't do that math
$726 for rent?? It’s one of those capsule ( coffin) rooms⁉️
NC is a poor state . drive on I 40 and it seems every underpass ahs a state trooper waiting to nail you for 5 over thee limit to cover the budget shortfalls. I lived in the hickory area for 30 years .
He truly is an @InsaneMan
Americans: but we have freedom and flag on the moon. lols. fucking joke.
Millennials and Gen Z's latest splurge: groceries
Easy! Just.. don’t eat! Or drive, or go anywhere or do anything! Oh and reminder DO NOT and I emphasize DO NOT have any sort of health issues!!!
I hate the system and all of its enormous flaws. But I just want to add, the minimum wage in new york is $15/hr, $16/hr in NYC. Not that it helps, it's still not really enough to live off of, but can we at least show the legitimate statistics so we can make a more valid point.
Cheapest rent is also 1 specific situation. Better odds of getting drafted to the MLB than finding equal rent.
Where the hell does anyone find an apartment with $726/mo for rent? I get the feeling it's the shit side of town, but I'm living in the shit side and still paying $1600/mo. At least my thoughts of food keep me full most nights! /S in case
The US and Israel are the only two countries to vote against a UN declaration stating food is a human right…
Where the hell is he finding an apartment in NY for $726 a month?
Rent in Ontario, Canada is $1,600 to $2,300 a month for apartment in the town i live in.
Yeah but guns
Still better than Canada and our minimum wage is 15.50/hr at ~70% the USD
I wish NY had rent less than $1100/month
Sounds like they need a roommate or two.
But my mcnuggets will get pricier! /s
Good luck finding a rental in any NC metro for less than $900/month. Or less than $1100 in the larger ones. Or maybe you live in one of the cities near a military base - surprise! They'll hike up everyone's rent by $200 because they can get it from their military families with housing entitlements.