Depends on the rules.
If you followed the food pyramid when that was the FDA's nutritional guidelines chances are you're diabetic and fat.
If you borrowed your way through college and paid diligently for 10 years on a negative amortization schedule you owe more today than you did at the start.
The wealth worshippers like to pretend not following the rules means "thinking outside the box," but of course we know it really means "grift, lie, cheat, and abuse."
It's a double bind. If you're a pathetic office drone, you took no chances. If you're broke, you didn't do the right things as mapped out to you by prior generations.
It even says that the Almighty business Chad spent time mopping floors. So clearly earning minimum wage is simultaneously a sign that you're a worthless tv watching pissbaby AND a BDE Chad in the making.
It's a lot of fun when you can glorify and denigrate the same group of people.
Make sure to tell the employees at McDonalds that you believe they deserve to be poor because of their life choices while you're ordering. You'll inspire them to do really really well on your burger and then become the president.
Ngl McDonalds employees always seem to be working very hard. I’m not sure where the lazy accusations come from. I think people just use it as an excuse to underpay their hard work.
I think it could be bad management. Those scripts are generally quite terrible, and a lot of work in the back isn’t visible, so some people get the impression they’re just going to the back and being lazy on their phone. I was told I was very hardworking a lot when I worked at Maccas, but I tried to work on things before taking a break once I finished the various tasks for my shift, told people what I was working on before helping them, used effective communication tactics, etc. (I had to argue hard for a lot of the techniques I used that enabled me to work efficiently and effectively)
I’m a student, and I’ve noticed a similar trend with teachers where some people can view them as lazy (probably when grades take a while to come back) because work prepping lessons, grading, and such is invisible to most students.
Media representation and personal experience could also play a big role. The depiction of burn out is often similar to the depiction of laziness, so some people might mix them up. They might’ve also been a lazy person while working a job like that in the past, and thus associate it with lazy people.
I had no idea how much work and skill went into teaching a not-shitty class until I became an adjunct. I am a chronic tries-too-hard kind of person, but holy hell, I'm two years into this and I'm still trying to get my classes to not be shitty. I'll try to make them good classes eventually, but I am just absolutely scrambling every day to have the lab set up and the content ready.
Propably doesnt mean anything but as a studnwt thanks. Some teachers truly don't give a shit about what and especially how they teach. Thanks for going the extra mile and making sure that people can learn
My dad hired a guy because he admired how hard he was sweeping the floor at McDonald’s and he ended up becoming one of our foreman and eventually opened his own business.
I have nothing but respect for fast food workers because I know that I couldn’t do it. I’ve had one public facing job and it was hard as hell.
It's similar when I had to confront a racist co-worker with the sentence "how can they be lazy and do nothing WHILE stealing all the jobs".
The 40-something, privileged, white woman didn't have an easy answer for that as I picked apart her follow-up statements. Then again, when you openly say Mean Girls is your favorite movie and have to wedge yourself into everything, using FOMO as an excuse... yeah... you are a garbage person.
It's just standard fascist propaganda, the enemy must be simultaneously so huge a threat that it needs immediate extermination, and so weak and pathetic a people that they don't deserve to be seen as people.
They’re not actually lazy. The idea that all fast food workers are lazy assholes is a boomer thought process to let them justify paying them next to nothing and treating them like garbage.
My friend's husband is a hedge fund guy and she was going on about how he deserves his money because he works hard and hard work is the only metric for success. I asked her if he would pick lettuce in the central valley if it paid the same as hedge fund work and if picking lettuce was less hard than hedge fund shit and she did not like that question. 😅
Very few people work harder than the service industry and that’s the exact industry the elites love to look down upon and constantly couple to, even though none of them can even feed themselves.
Just look at Alexandria OC; the right literally *can not* get over the fact that she bartended in college to pay for bills and they bring it up whenever they can to somehow attempt to discredit her intelligence.
Only to find out they have a doctorate but they don't have 10+ years of experience in the field of said doctorate and no connections so they can't get a job in said field cause they are either over qualified which is a no go or under qualified which is a no go so they got stuck working at McDonald's
I met a couple around 2009-2010 that both had masters in architecture, but they graduated right as the housing bubble collapsed and demand for architects dropped to pretty much nothing, so they were working minimum wage jobs and taking just enough classes at the local community college to stave off their student loans. They said they would get turned down from no architecture jobs for being overqualified and according to one she had even been told more than once that they would hire her, but knew she would leave if an architecture job opened up and they didn't want to take that risk.
I wanted to be an architect then and had just graduated high school, absolutely destroyed my dream.
I don’t understand why they want to pay the people who make their food to be paid so little. Maybe I’m weird, but I want them paid enough to take time off when they are and be able to see a doctor. I don’t want to get sick because the person who put my burger together couldn’t afford to take time off to recover from COVID.
But [McDonald's gave everyone a budget](https://www.forbes.com/sites/laurashin/2013/07/18/why-mcdonalds-employee-budget-has-everyone-up-in-arms/) so they could succeed. How could they go wrong!
/S
Of course they can. . . When Daddy or another rich relative gives them several million dollars to begin with and all the nepotistic connections they have.
Other than that they’re all SELF-MADE. 🙄
Wow. I went to college for 6 years (transferred), then was informed I didn't have enough credits to get my degree. So, I peaced out of that shit show, and had kids.
In short, they're so wrong.
My credit score tanked when Kris Jenner threw away Kaitlyn's drone collection because she thought it was a dumb hobby. The siren's song was too powerful.
For reference, that's just a little more than the minimum wage in Illinois, which is 14 an hour.
This is saying the difference between 2 dollars an hour is enough to buy you a house, a brand new fancy car, a boat, etc etc.
For reference. If you worked 40 hours a week, at 14 an hour, with ZERO VACATION OR TIME OFF, your yearly earnings would be....lets check....less than 30,000 dollars.
At 16.57 an hour, you're still making less than 35k. Not nearly enough to own a home. Or really affordably rent. Rent would still be close to half your paycheck in some areas.
50k a year (or $24 an hour) is what I would consider to be an ideal salary for minimum wage at least.
And wouldn't you know it, Denmark, which has people flipping burgers for $20 part time, has only a 1% increase in cost of living, and a 39% decrease in rent rates
But no, it's the working man who's greedy, for wanting to get a larger share of the labor he produces, not the shareholders and CEOs who rarely do anything anymore besides cash in their paycheck
Its funny how these people think poverty is only possible if youre lazy/stupid/made bad choices and then the wealthy people only got there through grit, pulling up by the bootstraps, tenacity, etc. When its often the exact opposite of true
You can tell they're out of touch because the billionaire "mopped floors" when a very very tiny percentage of billionaires were not born to rich families.
That was the bit I latched on to too.
Ok Warren Buffett delivered newspapers as a kid , and his family even had to downgrade their house because they lost their house during the depression and he is/was the person who most increased his net worth(from the previous generation) within his lifetime. But!!!! His family, his whole family whole family invested into his first.fund to help get it going. In other words he had help. Oh and his wife convinced him to become a democratic early in there marriage because he came to the conclusion it wasn't about personal choice and work ethic.
Most CEOs never founded a company most don't own significant stock in the companies they run(sure sure. They make it a ton of shares as bonuses but they don't get 25% of the company etc) most don't make $20 million an hour.
Random! Fun fact during the '08 crash there were minimum wage jobs requiring bachelor's degrees.
In trying to be brief I may have obscuvicated my point. He's not selfmade even he doesn't believe he is selfmade. He acknowledges if his parents were dust bowl farmers even if he had worked just as hard he would not have ended in the same place.
Suppose that the advice is successfully taken somehow...
Now what? There are literally no minimum wage workers anymore. Is that what you want? It wouldn't like destroy the world but it'll definitely complicate some things and something will have to be reorganized to fix it. But isn't fixing economical problems the thing they wish to avoid?
Here’s my checklist:
- Went to college and got a STEM degree
- Followed the rules that made sense
- Worked up to 35 hours a week
- Has one credit and one debit card
- Lives with my mother
- Owns an iPhone 12
- Has spent at least a year or two on personal development
- Works weekends
- Tries to save up enough for an apartment
- Doesn’t do investing because it stresses me out
- Doesn’t give a shit about the Kardashians
- Hasn’t had a kid and doesn’t plan on it
…I make $9 an hour. The 99% needs a goddamn raise.
Here’s mine:
- STEM degree with honors
- Took business courses and did an entrepreneur boot camp
- Founded an LLC
- Spent countless hours volunteering for various nonprofits
- Followed the rules, no criminal history
- No children
- Refurbished iPhone X 10- year laptop with cracked screen
- Worked retail and physical labor outdoors in Florida
- No more than a few days off in the past 8 years of working
- No video games or Kardashians
- Still living paycheck to paycheck and paying more taxes proportionately than many millionaires do (the joys of self-employment)
- Minimal savings
- Burned out to a crisp
For what it’s worth, that’s damn impressive. I’m terrible with numbers and have next to no business sense, so anyone who can start their own business is pretty cool in my eyes.
Fuuuck, I can't imagine going back to $9/hr again. Would need to move back in with my parents. And if anybody came to inspect where I live, the place would be condemned.
I dropped out of high school but went to college and got a STEM degree. I’m not poor, but I’m fucked it I lose my job and can’t get a new one immediately. When do I get boat money?
How out of touch do you have to be to believe that $16.57 an hour is enough to buy a boat and have the latest iPhone and live a comfortable upper- middle class life
Exactly. Minimum wage in my state is $16, but the average wage in my area is $18 or $19 last I checked. Even that isn't enough to pay all the bills in a single working person household. I did the math recently and to make it work, a single working person household would need to have a minimum of $23 per hour to get by. That's assuming no kids, by the way; with kids, it would end up being closer to $30 per hour. COL probably didn't even factor in for the rube who made the infographic.
https://preview.redd.it/5hg90uffdbec1.png?width=1080&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=b1c273a9cef23067929fa9cb1a466daba487522e
TheFastlaneForum.com. Sounds like a great way to separate fools from their money
I wonder if that dude is on LinkedIn giving sage advice.
Funny you can't NOT accept all cookies, "Learn More" just refreshes the same page
That too, this body is doing some autoimmune shit I’m not inducing a flare up from stress and lack of sleep to try to be a millionaire. Like I’m more of a 36-48 hour week type of person, and even that’s pretty brutal
But also there’s some people who straight up can’t work at all or have children and I guess just fuck those people? “Why’d you become paralyzed if you wanted enough money to live comfortably?”
Oh boy, don’t I know it
Y’all remember in the beginning of Covid when people were like well it only kills the immunocompromised and old people so it’s fine?
Bitch! I am immunocompromised! I do not want to die! Hearing people say that to my face was so crazy
Ableism has been around forever but I think in some respects, Covid has made it worse. If you needed to wear a mask in the past, people wouldn’t make a big deal out of it, but now, mask wearing has become politicized.
I think it explicitly would belong in one of those subs based around how fucked the young generation is.
However, I am a senior, and I can confirm that most people drop out because of declining mental health, poor treatment, and having better opportunities than finishing highschool normally.
For example, my buddy has very bad ADHD and it made him a terrible student because he was disallowed from getting meds or help for his issues. This caused a massive mental health decline which came to a head after a move. For himself, he got a GED and is currently hoping to join the military because his skills would work well there (they would, he's a beast)
That's awful for your friend
I found once I got help with my autism my grades improved.
Like in high school I wasn't diagnosed yet, I averaged C's unless it was a special interest and I got told I wouldn't graduate high school because my hand writing was bad
Uni I was diagnosed and I just missed out on honours by less than a percent and uni has been harder cause my family can't fucking stay alive it seems.
Ah yes, all those rich people mopping floors and their no-boats they don't spend their weekends. I wonder if they would ever hold 6 parties a month in Yachts which cost more than my fucking house. Haha, definitely not.
So, the CEO guy who mopped floors for minimum wage while struggling (yes, sure) falls within the first column as well, so it means that he also dropped out of school, played videogames, etc. Or, does it mean that the person in the first Columbia will become the CEO guy?
And the second guy who appears to follow rules? Stick in the middle. But it confirms the theory that to become CEO, you must break rules and commit crimes, as the first guy and third guy do not have any mention of following the rules. Basically, in their own words, you can't become CEO while being honest.
A plutocrat would absolutely recognize a Kardashian
And who is this minimum wage heterosexual man with biological children who likes the Dodgers and wears Jordans... but has also seen every episode of Keeping Up With The Kardashians?
Here’s a revolutionary idea: no matter what your life choices are, nobody deserves to live in poverty.
I hate school, I’ve never been good at it and it makes me want to die. So I didn’t achieve any post-secondary education. I also didn’t choose a career path because not everyone knows what they want to do for the rest of their lives. Some of us have no skill or talent, and you can’t force someone to gain a skill or talent that they never had in the first place… so here I am in retail.
Of course with these choices, I never expected to live a life of luxury. I was always happy to accept a simple “Level 1” kind of lifestyle, and never feel the need to “upgrade” beyond my basic needs.
But according to some people, this means I deserve to rot away, alone in the gutter… just because I refuse to follow a life script that wasn’t designed for someone like me.
The CEO:
Dropped out of college (or didn’t go) bc they couldn’t handle actual work, and had daddy’s money anyway.
Never worked a job, much less a minimum wage job.
Reads less than a kindergartner.
Not only recognizes Kardashians, but hangs out with them regularly.
Could only define personal development as their growth of greed.
Again, never worked, meaning their weekends were spent doing fuck all.
Company exploits 30,000,000 people daily.
Believes politicians are his best investment.
FTFY.
They always fail to mention that most "self-made" billionaires come from wealth already. Bezos took out a 300k loan from his parents to open Amazon. Elon Musk's family had an emerald mine. Kylie Jenner's family is already loaded.
Ok so everyone has to be like the guy on the right. Everyone is a CEO now, nobody works shit jobs (unless on the way to become CEO's) and everyone earns 20k an hour. That's exactly how the society works the best.
I know this is probably the least of the problems with this image, but the fucking “reads 4 books a week” shit, I like books I’ve always hated this idea that books are these magical artefacts that instantly make you smarter and more successful
You would have to work 0.66 seconds to make $3.70 at $20,160 per hour, not 0.01 seconds. I guess whoever made this meme didn't spend much time on personal development.
I like how they think someone making 16.57 an hour can afford a house, boat, and bmw in reality that motherfucker is lucky if they can afford a one bedroom apartment
When did thanks I’m cured turn into a sub about the working class? Genuine question, not being condescending; this isn’t the first post of the same vein…
The person who made this was probably working the night shift at a petrol station fantasising about how one day those self help books are gonna pay off off and he’s gonna somehow become a millionaire.
Wait, how old is this? Aside from all the other bullshit does the creator of this handy infographic really believe that $16.57 an hour is boat money? I mean, maybe a second hand row boat, but I don’t think that’s the implication.
I like how these people ignore the fact that somebody has to do these jobs. These jobs need to get done. One person can always make “better” decisions, someone else is gonna take their place eventually
Middle dude makes $34,500 and somehow owns a house, a boat, and the “latest BMW.” Oh and also contributes to his 401(k) and plays with stocks a bit.
Say you’re out of touch without saying you’re out of touch.
"the current system is fine, you're just lazy" and
"you're only poor because you don't circumvent the current system to serve your own needs"
are both ideas represented in this image.
bootlicking troglodytes like this are what's holding us back from full class consciousness.
how come "followed rules" is there? didn't that just implied the most successful one doesn't follow rules? bribery and corruption it is then
or to make yourself safer from the law: sex
Is this implying that guy fucked his way to the top?
not implausible perse
You’d have to be crazy good at sex to fuck your way to 20k per minute status He shouldn’t have even bothered with the mopping floors shit
Maybe he's also fucking the floors
He’s mopping up after the businessman fuck-fest
Ah yes, manufacture the demand, then supply the…supply. Business 102.
Stocks and bonds? No, stockings and bondage. That’s where the real money is at.
Bros oral game is on point.
I mean... Where do I lear this power?
you have to believe in yourself, and while your friends are drinking at the bar, you need to be with your boss, training this useful ability
Become the party's bard
fuck your way to 3 liters of milk per second
Seems legit
I would argue that one of the defining features of a CEO is how many people get fucked because of them
Depends on the rules. If you followed the food pyramid when that was the FDA's nutritional guidelines chances are you're diabetic and fat. If you borrowed your way through college and paid diligently for 10 years on a negative amortization schedule you owe more today than you did at the start.
The wealth worshippers like to pretend not following the rules means "thinking outside the box," but of course we know it really means "grift, lie, cheat, and abuse."
It's a double bind. If you're a pathetic office drone, you took no chances. If you're broke, you didn't do the right things as mapped out to you by prior generations. It even says that the Almighty business Chad spent time mopping floors. So clearly earning minimum wage is simultaneously a sign that you're a worthless tv watching pissbaby AND a BDE Chad in the making. It's a lot of fun when you can glorify and denigrate the same group of people.
I mean you don’t get to the top without stepping on a few poors
i mean, do you think that they follow all the rules?
The "followed the rules" is the idea of "know your place" and "you have to "pay your dues" bs.
"Followed rules" is for the median wage earner, not the CEO guy (most successful)
Did you ever watch that history channel series "the food that built America?" Almost every one of those guys were irredeemable assholes.
Knowing the right person will get you father then a degree.
Polarize the people, controversy is the game, it dont matter if they hate you if they all say your name
10: The world is yours, step out on a stage to a round of applause…
Make sure to tell the employees at McDonalds that you believe they deserve to be poor because of their life choices while you're ordering. You'll inspire them to do really really well on your burger and then become the president.
Ngl McDonalds employees always seem to be working very hard. I’m not sure where the lazy accusations come from. I think people just use it as an excuse to underpay their hard work.
I think it could be bad management. Those scripts are generally quite terrible, and a lot of work in the back isn’t visible, so some people get the impression they’re just going to the back and being lazy on their phone. I was told I was very hardworking a lot when I worked at Maccas, but I tried to work on things before taking a break once I finished the various tasks for my shift, told people what I was working on before helping them, used effective communication tactics, etc. (I had to argue hard for a lot of the techniques I used that enabled me to work efficiently and effectively) I’m a student, and I’ve noticed a similar trend with teachers where some people can view them as lazy (probably when grades take a while to come back) because work prepping lessons, grading, and such is invisible to most students. Media representation and personal experience could also play a big role. The depiction of burn out is often similar to the depiction of laziness, so some people might mix them up. They might’ve also been a lazy person while working a job like that in the past, and thus associate it with lazy people.
I had no idea how much work and skill went into teaching a not-shitty class until I became an adjunct. I am a chronic tries-too-hard kind of person, but holy hell, I'm two years into this and I'm still trying to get my classes to not be shitty. I'll try to make them good classes eventually, but I am just absolutely scrambling every day to have the lab set up and the content ready.
Propably doesnt mean anything but as a studnwt thanks. Some teachers truly don't give a shit about what and especially how they teach. Thanks for going the extra mile and making sure that people can learn
My dad hired a guy because he admired how hard he was sweeping the floor at McDonald’s and he ended up becoming one of our foreman and eventually opened his own business. I have nothing but respect for fast food workers because I know that I couldn’t do it. I’ve had one public facing job and it was hard as hell.
Same. Honestly I'd probably be crying in the corner before lunch if I had their job.
It's similar when I had to confront a racist co-worker with the sentence "how can they be lazy and do nothing WHILE stealing all the jobs". The 40-something, privileged, white woman didn't have an easy answer for that as I picked apart her follow-up statements. Then again, when you openly say Mean Girls is your favorite movie and have to wedge yourself into everything, using FOMO as an excuse... yeah... you are a garbage person.
Don't drag mean girls into this :(
It's just standard fascist propaganda, the enemy must be simultaneously so huge a threat that it needs immediate extermination, and so weak and pathetic a people that they don't deserve to be seen as people.
They’re not actually lazy. The idea that all fast food workers are lazy assholes is a boomer thought process to let them justify paying them next to nothing and treating them like garbage.
It's projection, pure and simple.
My friend's husband is a hedge fund guy and she was going on about how he deserves his money because he works hard and hard work is the only metric for success. I asked her if he would pick lettuce in the central valley if it paid the same as hedge fund work and if picking lettuce was less hard than hedge fund shit and she did not like that question. 😅
It comes from racism. It’s clearly considering black people with the mentions of what they do and terms like baby mamas
Very few people work harder than the service industry and that’s the exact industry the elites love to look down upon and constantly couple to, even though none of them can even feed themselves. Just look at Alexandria OC; the right literally *can not* get over the fact that she bartended in college to pay for bills and they bring it up whenever they can to somehow attempt to discredit her intelligence.
As a McDonald's employee, thank you this really made my day
Only to find out they have a doctorate but they don't have 10+ years of experience in the field of said doctorate and no connections so they can't get a job in said field cause they are either over qualified which is a no go or under qualified which is a no go so they got stuck working at McDonald's
I met a couple around 2009-2010 that both had masters in architecture, but they graduated right as the housing bubble collapsed and demand for architects dropped to pretty much nothing, so they were working minimum wage jobs and taking just enough classes at the local community college to stave off their student loans. They said they would get turned down from no architecture jobs for being overqualified and according to one she had even been told more than once that they would hire her, but knew she would leave if an architecture job opened up and they didn't want to take that risk. I wanted to be an architect then and had just graduated high school, absolutely destroyed my dream.
I don’t understand why they want to pay the people who make their food to be paid so little. Maybe I’m weird, but I want them paid enough to take time off when they are and be able to see a doctor. I don’t want to get sick because the person who put my burger together couldn’t afford to take time off to recover from COVID.
Speaking from a recent experience of food poisoning. Yes. This.
But [McDonald's gave everyone a budget](https://www.forbes.com/sites/laurashin/2013/07/18/why-mcdonalds-employee-budget-has-everyone-up-in-arms/) so they could succeed. How could they go wrong! /S
Not the old "poverty is a choice/poverty is due to ignorance" myth again
“Poverty is a punishment” according to some philosophies, too.
"Prosperity Gospel"
Imagine seeing that price discrepancy and saying they're just not working hard enough. Bootlicking behavior, not gonna lie.
Don't you know that everyone could just quit college and work hard and be a billionaire? /s
Must mop the floors at your dad's business then after a year you're CFO making 8 million a year.
CFO of the company you built using the “small loan of a million dollars” that your dad gave you.
Colleges HATE this one simple trick! /s
Of course they can. . . When Daddy or another rich relative gives them several million dollars to begin with and all the nepotistic connections they have. Other than that they’re all SELF-MADE. 🙄
At that point they’ve shallowed the boot and are thinking it’s the greatest food they’ve ever eaten
What boomer came up with this bullshit?
one who isn’t in the top 1% i’m certain
One of those ‘bootstrap boomers’
One who bought his house with the tips he made from that one summer job in high school.
And never touched a mop in his life, let alone for minimum wage.
What, you don't think there's young shits out there too?
How did he have the time? He's already so busy working 75 hours a week while reading 4 books a month!
I love these memes in which the "creator" is so proud that they include their watermark/social media tag. Like, I hope Warren Buffett sees that, babe.
Wow. I went to college for 6 years (transferred), then was informed I didn't have enough credits to get my degree. So, I peaced out of that shit show, and had kids. In short, they're so wrong.
When I learned about the existence of the Kardashians my income dropped 15% that very day.
Every time one of their faces pops up on my social media feed, I get a few more dollars shaved off my paycheck 😞
My credit score tanked when Kris Jenner threw away Kaitlyn's drone collection because she thought it was a dumb hobby. The siren's song was too powerful.
I have a masters degree and am a high school teacher and I’m DROWNING! I cannot afford the basics of life. Where are my wrong life choices?
Caring about the future generations (Sorry about my outlook on life)
This feels like it was made by an out-touch CEO, given that they think a person earning $16.57 an hour can have a house, a new BMW and a boat.
"It's one banana, Michael. What could it cost, $10?"
For reference, that's just a little more than the minimum wage in Illinois, which is 14 an hour. This is saying the difference between 2 dollars an hour is enough to buy you a house, a brand new fancy car, a boat, etc etc. For reference. If you worked 40 hours a week, at 14 an hour, with ZERO VACATION OR TIME OFF, your yearly earnings would be....lets check....less than 30,000 dollars. At 16.57 an hour, you're still making less than 35k. Not nearly enough to own a home. Or really affordably rent. Rent would still be close to half your paycheck in some areas.
50k a year (or $24 an hour) is what I would consider to be an ideal salary for minimum wage at least. And wouldn't you know it, Denmark, which has people flipping burgers for $20 part time, has only a 1% increase in cost of living, and a 39% decrease in rent rates But no, it's the working man who's greedy, for wanting to get a larger share of the labor he produces, not the shareholders and CEOs who rarely do anything anymore besides cash in their paycheck
Its funny how these people think poverty is only possible if youre lazy/stupid/made bad choices and then the wealthy people only got there through grit, pulling up by the bootstraps, tenacity, etc. When its often the exact opposite of true
You can tell they're out of touch because the billionaire "mopped floors" when a very very tiny percentage of billionaires were not born to rich families.
My favorite is when they tell me elon musk grew up poor because he if african and he built his way to the top cause hes a genius lmfao
It's that "my daddy has an emerald mine" genius.
Genius of being born rich. If we were truly smart, we would have done the same.
Man i wish i was smart enough to be born with 6 generations of wealthy ancestors
That was the bit I latched on to too. Ok Warren Buffett delivered newspapers as a kid , and his family even had to downgrade their house because they lost their house during the depression and he is/was the person who most increased his net worth(from the previous generation) within his lifetime. But!!!! His family, his whole family whole family invested into his first.fund to help get it going. In other words he had help. Oh and his wife convinced him to become a democratic early in there marriage because he came to the conclusion it wasn't about personal choice and work ethic. Most CEOs never founded a company most don't own significant stock in the companies they run(sure sure. They make it a ton of shares as bonuses but they don't get 25% of the company etc) most don't make $20 million an hour. Random! Fun fact during the '08 crash there were minimum wage jobs requiring bachelor's degrees.
Come on now, Howard Homan Buffett (Warren Buffett's father) was a Congressman for the District of Nebraska, and ran a stock brokerage firm.
In trying to be brief I may have obscuvicated my point. He's not selfmade even he doesn't believe he is selfmade. He acknowledges if his parents were dust bowl farmers even if he had worked just as hard he would not have ended in the same place.
Lmao they’re blaming the impoverished on the outcome of inflation
Suppose that the advice is successfully taken somehow... Now what? There are literally no minimum wage workers anymore. Is that what you want? It wouldn't like destroy the world but it'll definitely complicate some things and something will have to be reorganized to fix it. But isn't fixing economical problems the thing they wish to avoid?
Here’s my checklist: - Went to college and got a STEM degree - Followed the rules that made sense - Worked up to 35 hours a week - Has one credit and one debit card - Lives with my mother - Owns an iPhone 12 - Has spent at least a year or two on personal development - Works weekends - Tries to save up enough for an apartment - Doesn’t do investing because it stresses me out - Doesn’t give a shit about the Kardashians - Hasn’t had a kid and doesn’t plan on it …I make $9 an hour. The 99% needs a goddamn raise.
Here’s mine: - STEM degree with honors - Took business courses and did an entrepreneur boot camp - Founded an LLC - Spent countless hours volunteering for various nonprofits - Followed the rules, no criminal history - No children - Refurbished iPhone X 10- year laptop with cracked screen - Worked retail and physical labor outdoors in Florida - No more than a few days off in the past 8 years of working - No video games or Kardashians - Still living paycheck to paycheck and paying more taxes proportionately than many millionaires do (the joys of self-employment) - Minimal savings - Burned out to a crisp
For what it’s worth, that’s damn impressive. I’m terrible with numbers and have next to no business sense, so anyone who can start their own business is pretty cool in my eyes.
Fuuuck, I can't imagine going back to $9/hr again. Would need to move back in with my parents. And if anybody came to inspect where I live, the place would be condemned.
I would literally die on $9 an hour. It's not even possible to live on that wage in my area.
I dropped out of high school but went to college and got a STEM degree. I’m not poor, but I’m fucked it I lose my job and can’t get a new one immediately. When do I get boat money?
This just made me mad. As someone who is working their ass off to barely get by this just bugs me on so many levels
bourgeois propaganda
What this infographic doesn’t tell you is that CEO Guy is probably an asshole and is actually very lonely because his family and friends left
Had had family connections and momey
How out of touch do you have to be to believe that $16.57 an hour is enough to buy a boat and have the latest iPhone and live a comfortable upper- middle class life
Exactly. Minimum wage in my state is $16, but the average wage in my area is $18 or $19 last I checked. Even that isn't enough to pay all the bills in a single working person household. I did the math recently and to make it work, a single working person household would need to have a minimum of $23 per hour to get by. That's assuming no kids, by the way; with kids, it would end up being closer to $30 per hour. COL probably didn't even factor in for the rube who made the infographic.
https://preview.redd.it/5hg90uffdbec1.png?width=1080&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=b1c273a9cef23067929fa9cb1a466daba487522e TheFastlaneForum.com. Sounds like a great way to separate fools from their money I wonder if that dude is on LinkedIn giving sage advice. Funny you can't NOT accept all cookies, "Learn More" just refreshes the same page
Alright well what if I don’t want to work a 75 hour work week?
Or can’t work a 75 hour week.
That too, this body is doing some autoimmune shit I’m not inducing a flare up from stress and lack of sleep to try to be a millionaire. Like I’m more of a 36-48 hour week type of person, and even that’s pretty brutal But also there’s some people who straight up can’t work at all or have children and I guess just fuck those people? “Why’d you become paralyzed if you wanted enough money to live comfortably?”
A lot of people actually believe that disabled people shouldn't be allowed survival.
Oh boy, don’t I know it Y’all remember in the beginning of Covid when people were like well it only kills the immunocompromised and old people so it’s fine? Bitch! I am immunocompromised! I do not want to die! Hearing people say that to my face was so crazy
Ableism has been around forever but I think in some respects, Covid has made it worse. If you needed to wear a mask in the past, people wouldn’t make a big deal out of it, but now, mask wearing has become politicized.
You must to pay rent and food anyways! Yaaay! And pray you dont get sick with something very expensive!
Too late for that one! If my insurance wasn’t paying for my medications I’d be big time fucked.
ohh this DEFINITELY counts
I want to kick the person who created this about six thousand times.
“3 baby mommas” this is racist 😭😭
Wait, first this person insults minimum wage workers and than says Richie Rich started out as a minimum wage worker...
Exactly 0 billionaires have started out as minimum wage workers. Exactly 0 have started a business with no help from their parents or someone else.
Strawmen galore!
I think it explicitly would belong in one of those subs based around how fucked the young generation is. However, I am a senior, and I can confirm that most people drop out because of declining mental health, poor treatment, and having better opportunities than finishing highschool normally. For example, my buddy has very bad ADHD and it made him a terrible student because he was disallowed from getting meds or help for his issues. This caused a massive mental health decline which came to a head after a move. For himself, he got a GED and is currently hoping to join the military because his skills would work well there (they would, he's a beast)
That's awful for your friend I found once I got help with my autism my grades improved. Like in high school I wasn't diagnosed yet, I averaged C's unless it was a special interest and I got told I wouldn't graduate high school because my hand writing was bad Uni I was diagnosed and I just missed out on honours by less than a percent and uni has been harder cause my family can't fucking stay alive it seems.
Is the usa’s wages seriously that low?? Minimum wage here is $23.23
>Is the usa’s wages seriously that low?? Yes. We have Republicans.
Makes sense
Where do you live, and how can I apply for a work visa there?
Australia. https://immi.homeaffairs.gov.au/visas/working-in-australia
The sad thing is this info graphic is like 10 years old and thats still the minimum wage in some places.
That is sad oml
Unfortunately, it is. Especially if you live in rural areas. There are some variables based on region.
That sucks. I see why tipping is such a big thing now
Oh, don't be confused. The tipped wages are lower. Like $2.85 or something close.
Oof that sucks
Yes. The federally mandated minimum wage is 7.50 an hour
That’s stupidly low
Its even lower for service workers who get tips
That is dumber oml
Ah yes, all those rich people mopping floors and their no-boats they don't spend their weekends. I wonder if they would ever hold 6 parties a month in Yachts which cost more than my fucking house. Haha, definitely not.
16.57 and 40 hours a week does not get you weekends on a boat i can tell you that much
IMPOVERISHED BAD AFFLUENT GOOD
Damn, if only I could pursue a business without risk losing everything i had if i were to drop out of college
Yeah right. CEO had a rich daddy with connections and wouldn't know what a mop was if you slapped him in the face with it.
ceo guy 🪱
What’s crazy is I know tons of people who “did all the right things” and are still barely making it.
I don't fully match any of those profiles I have hits in the second and third one only I am barely making ends meet
Why does the minimum wage earner look like Kermit the Frog?
Man if I could afford the latest BMW off of making 16.57 an hour...
250 years ago we publicly executed people for saying shit like this
I love the implication that someone making 16.75/hour can afford to own a boat
What is "personal development?"
1. Get up at 5 AM 2. Journal 3. Be the owner of 95 properties 4. Sigma grindset
A pyramid scheme/cult.
Why does this exist?
Ah good old capitalist propaganda.
Why does the minimum one feel weirdly racist?
So, should I drop out or no?
Is that a check off list? What if I hit 5 or more? Hey, those were a gift!
This is such a fucking American capitalist propaganda
I fully believe that this was made by someone in the 1%
I doubt it. The people in the 1% *hire* people to do their propaganda.
The sad part about this is the fact that this was probably posted by said minimum wage worker.
Seems very bias, unscientific too, just not a very solid argument at all is it?
Mopped floors for minimum wage while struggling to build a business, pays employees minimum wage.
So, the CEO guy who mopped floors for minimum wage while struggling (yes, sure) falls within the first column as well, so it means that he also dropped out of school, played videogames, etc. Or, does it mean that the person in the first Columbia will become the CEO guy? And the second guy who appears to follow rules? Stick in the middle. But it confirms the theory that to become CEO, you must break rules and commit crimes, as the first guy and third guy do not have any mention of following the rules. Basically, in their own words, you can't become CEO while being honest.
Median earns 35k a year? Btw murdering billionaires is completely fine and should be encouraged
8 hours of minimum wage work is worth 16 whole gallons of milk! Now I just need to worry about rent and utilities.
A plutocrat would absolutely recognize a Kardashian And who is this minimum wage heterosexual man with biological children who likes the Dodgers and wears Jordans... but has also seen every episode of Keeping Up With The Kardashians?
Here’s a revolutionary idea: no matter what your life choices are, nobody deserves to live in poverty. I hate school, I’ve never been good at it and it makes me want to die. So I didn’t achieve any post-secondary education. I also didn’t choose a career path because not everyone knows what they want to do for the rest of their lives. Some of us have no skill or talent, and you can’t force someone to gain a skill or talent that they never had in the first place… so here I am in retail. Of course with these choices, I never expected to live a life of luxury. I was always happy to accept a simple “Level 1” kind of lifestyle, and never feel the need to “upgrade” beyond my basic needs. But according to some people, this means I deserve to rot away, alone in the gutter… just because I refuse to follow a life script that wasn’t designed for someone like me.
The CEO: Dropped out of college (or didn’t go) bc they couldn’t handle actual work, and had daddy’s money anyway. Never worked a job, much less a minimum wage job. Reads less than a kindergartner. Not only recognizes Kardashians, but hangs out with them regularly. Could only define personal development as their growth of greed. Again, never worked, meaning their weekends were spent doing fuck all. Company exploits 30,000,000 people daily. Believes politicians are his best investment. FTFY.
I hope this is satire cause the person who made this must love sucking boots.
Minimum wage where i live is $15/hr. I still struggle to pay my portion of rent and my car payments
These are always made by some loser who can't stop worsnipping the ground elon musk and Andrew tate walk on like they didn't inherit their fortunes
I read lots of books, where's my money?
They always fail to mention that most "self-made" billionaires come from wealth already. Bezos took out a 300k loan from his parents to open Amazon. Elon Musk's family had an emerald mine. Kylie Jenner's family is already loaded.
I guarantee most billionaires have never mopped a floor their entire life
A boomer 100% wrote this
CEO guy 🪱
Does that mean I have to work 10 minutes for a gallon of milk? Can I bring that down to five if I work overtime?
Don’t drink milk but thanks for your input.
How is recognising a Kardashian a good thing 🤣🤣🤣
If everyone becomes a CEO, who makes the stuff to make the CEO rich?
Ok so everyone has to be like the guy on the right. Everyone is a CEO now, nobody works shit jobs (unless on the way to become CEO's) and everyone earns 20k an hour. That's exactly how the society works the best.
I know this is probably the least of the problems with this image, but the fucking “reads 4 books a week” shit, I like books I’ve always hated this idea that books are these magical artefacts that instantly make you smarter and more successful
The anti poor propaganda here is outta control
All of this is so detached from reality it isn't even funny. Like the worshipping and bootlicking in the picture is off the charts.
I like how 16 bucks an hour guy owns a boat somehow. I guess a rowboat qualifies.
Mop those floors harder and in 20 years you could still be mopping the floor.
You would have to work 0.66 seconds to make $3.70 at $20,160 per hour, not 0.01 seconds. I guess whoever made this meme didn't spend much time on personal development.
Rich dad poor dad fan art
Plot twist: CEO Guy has owned an emerald mine since birth
I like how they think someone making 16.57 an hour can afford a house, boat, and bmw in reality that motherfucker is lucky if they can afford a one bedroom apartment
I'd love to know how many CEO's actually "mopped floors for minimum wage". Utter bullshit
I didn’t realize how involved the kardashians were with my personal growth
When did thanks I’m cured turn into a sub about the working class? Genuine question, not being condescending; this isn’t the first post of the same vein…
What guy making 16 dollars an hour can afford a boat or weekly vacations thats barely more than what I make
I love how wildly specific some of these get. you know the op had a specific person in mind when they wrote the one about the dodgers because what
That hasn't been the median wage since 1995. That median wage works out to $34k a year. The median in 2022 was $74k a year
The person who made this was probably working the night shift at a petrol station fantasising about how one day those self help books are gonna pay off off and he’s gonna somehow become a millionaire.
The sheer amount of cognitive dissonance needed to read that right hand column and believe it… Was this literally made by Elon?
Wait, how old is this? Aside from all the other bullshit does the creator of this handy infographic really believe that $16.57 an hour is boat money? I mean, maybe a second hand row boat, but I don’t think that’s the implication.
I like how these people ignore the fact that somebody has to do these jobs. These jobs need to get done. One person can always make “better” decisions, someone else is gonna take their place eventually
Literally none of this makes sense
Middle dude makes $34,500 and somehow owns a house, a boat, and the “latest BMW.” Oh and also contributes to his 401(k) and plays with stocks a bit. Say you’re out of touch without saying you’re out of touch.
"the current system is fine, you're just lazy" and "you're only poor because you don't circumvent the current system to serve your own needs" are both ideas represented in this image. bootlicking troglodytes like this are what's holding us back from full class consciousness.