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Some of you are so ignorant it's unbelievable.
People that have full time jobs, are honest, hard working and contributing to society cannot make ends meet. Some of you decide to mock them. You'll bitch and moan about the state of our society, urban decay, crime, broken families etc, but completely ignore the factors that contribute to it. Completely and total ignorance. |
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Quoted: Some of you are so ignorant it's unbelievable. People that have full time jobs, are honest, hard working and contributing to society cannot make ends meet. Some of you decide to mock them. You'll bitch and moan about the state of our society, urban decay, crime, broken families etc, but completely ignore the factors that contribute to it. Completely and total ignorance. View Quote You’re talking to a group of people who think the American Dream is to live in an old vehicle and take a whore bath with bottled water for 20 years until you can qualify for an apartment or buy a shitty old shack to live in. That’s good living in their eyes. They got theirs. They robbed the chicken coop and ate the chickens, and now we’re rummaging around for squirrel eggs. |
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Quoted: You’re talking to a group of people who think the American Dream is to live in an old vehicle and take a whore bath with bottled water for 20 years until you can qualify for an apartment or buy a shitty old shack to live in. That’s good living in their eyes. They got theirs. They robbed the chicken coop and ate the chickens, and now we’re rummaging around for squirrel eggs. View Quote View All Quotes View All Quotes Quoted: Quoted: Some of you are so ignorant it's unbelievable. People that have full time jobs, are honest, hard working and contributing to society cannot make ends meet. Some of you decide to mock them. You'll bitch and moan about the state of our society, urban decay, crime, broken families etc, but completely ignore the factors that contribute to it. Completely and total ignorance. You’re talking to a group of people who think the American Dream is to live in an old vehicle and take a whore bath with bottled water for 20 years until you can qualify for an apartment or buy a shitty old shack to live in. That’s good living in their eyes. They got theirs. They robbed the chicken coop and ate the chickens, and now we’re rummaging around for squirrel eggs. |
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Quoted: Quoted: Quoted: You’re talking to a group of people who think the American Dream is to live in an old vehicle and take a whore bath with bottled water for 20 years until you can qualify for an apartment or buy a shitty old shack to live in. That’s good living in their eyes. They got theirs. They robbed the chicken coop and ate the chickens, and now we’re rummaging around for squirrel eggs. Who is they and who is we're ? |
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Quoted: Putting Chinese crap in boxes is supposed to be a "family sustaining job"? View Quote It seems a lot of people, particularly on the left, seem to think that any and every job should be a "career" level job, which should provide income sufficient enough to afford a moderate house in a nice neighborhood, a BMW in your driveway and a Cadillac healthcare plan. Even a 16 year old flipping burgers at Mickey D's deserves that. Not every job is labor of that level of value, and lots of people simply cannot understand that. |
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Quoted: Quoted: Quoted: Quoted: You’re talking to a group of people who think the American Dream is to live in an old vehicle and take a whore bath with bottled water for 20 years until you can qualify for an apartment or buy a shitty old shack to live in. That’s good living in their eyes. They got theirs. They robbed the chicken coop and ate the chickens, and now we’re rummaging around for squirrel eggs. Who is they and who is we're ? Smart people Millennials |
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Quoted: I think pushing for policies that create a more educated workforce and more high paying jobs is admirable. Trying to force jobs to pay more than they’re worth will only end in a vicious downward spiral. View Quote Bullshit. We've been doing that since the 80's and all its done is shrink the middle class and push more people into poverty as the "average worker" now needs a $50k college degree to wind up selling insurance, and their high school diploma is a rubber stamp that hasn't taught them how to actually behave like adults. Add in all the other Fed Gov bullshit that has inflated the snot out of everything, plus their importing millions of dirt cheap laborers... the fallacy of an "educated" society is that you still need manual laborers as the vast majority of your workers to get shit done. The push for higher education has done nothing but shrink our birth rates and enslave millions of suburban kids with a lifetime of student loan debt that delayed them from actually growing up and becoming productive earlier. |
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Quoted: Quoted: Quoted: Quoted: Quoted: You’re talking to a group of people who think the American Dream is to live in an old vehicle and take a whore bath with bottled water for 20 years until you can qualify for an apartment or buy a shitty old shack to live in. That’s good living in their eyes. They got theirs. They robbed the chicken coop and ate the chickens, and now we’re rummaging around for squirrel eggs. Who is they and who is we're ? Smart people Millennials Fuck em. |
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The article states they are making $20.50 an hour. I don’t know what kind of room there is for advancement but if that’s their entry level jobs it isn’t half bad. Right behind ups inside work in pay rate but probably less overall compensation. Not bad, not great.
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Quoted: Bullshit. We've been doing that since the 80's and all its done is shrink the middle class and push more people into poverty as the "average worker" now needs a $50k college degree to wind up selling insurance, and their high school diploma is a rubber stamp that hasn't taught them how to actually behave like adults. Add in all the other Fed Gov bullshit that has inflated the snot out of everything, plus their importing millions of dirt cheap laborers... the fallacy of an "educated" society is that you still need manual laborers as the vast majority of your workers to get shit done. The push for higher education has done nothing but shrink our birth rates and enslave millions of suburban kids with a lifetime of student loan debt that delayed them from actually growing up and becoming productive earlier. View Quote View All Quotes View All Quotes Quoted: Quoted: I think pushing for policies that create a more educated workforce and more high paying jobs is admirable. Trying to force jobs to pay more than they’re worth will only end in a vicious downward spiral. Bullshit. We've been doing that since the 80's and all its done is shrink the middle class and push more people into poverty as the "average worker" now needs a $50k college degree to wind up selling insurance, and their high school diploma is a rubber stamp that hasn't taught them how to actually behave like adults. Add in all the other Fed Gov bullshit that has inflated the snot out of everything, plus their importing millions of dirt cheap laborers... the fallacy of an "educated" society is that you still need manual laborers as the vast majority of your workers to get shit done. The push for higher education has done nothing but shrink our birth rates and enslave millions of suburban kids with a lifetime of student loan debt that delayed them from actually growing up and becoming productive earlier. A well educated workforce is not one where people get bullshit, useless degrees. Public K-12 is awful in many/most parts of the country, and it has to change if we actually want to reverse the decline we’re currently on. |
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Quoted: MA MOAR NACHO CHEESE HOT POCKETS AND I NEED MOAR MOUNTAIN DEW AND FLUSHABLE WIPES View Quote View All Quotes View All Quotes Quoted: MA MOAR NACHO CHEESE HOT POCKETS AND I NEED MOAR MOUNTAIN DEW AND FLUSHABLE WIPES Attached File |
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Quoted: Stfu things are tough all over https://www.ar15.com/media/mediaFiles/46253/superyacht-koru-web_jpg-3216793.JPG View Quote And if his people work hard, come in every day and do the job they are paid he can buy another one |
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Quoted: Yes, it is. We have a lot of Amazon refugees at my job. View Quote View All Quotes View All Quotes Quoted: Quoted: Amazon is a meat grinder. Yes, it is. We have a lot of Amazon refugees at my job. Well the article clearly shows people stuffing rubber dog shit in to envelopes, can’t be that hard Never worked for Amazon but I understand how logistics work is done well. There is quite a bit of back breaking labor that gets things from one place to another. Some of the most demanding shit jobs one can do. They deserve as much as any other unskilled worker. Do they deserve masters degree money? No, but they shouldn’t be met with “fuck em” for wanting more either. I suppose if you’re used to accepting whatever’s been offered to you and never asked for more one might have that attitude. Honest days work for an honest days pay. |
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I'll bet they all have $500/month car payments, carry $1,200 phones with a $60/month unlimited plan, stop at Starchucks every day, hit the nightclubs a couple times a week, eat out more than in. I can see why they can't afford rent and live with mom and dad.
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Amazon. The one that runs commercials that tell everyone that they help advance people with educational opportunities and promote those from within......
Don't like the $15? Fine, get into some logistics and supply chain classes they would pay for and move up the chain. Everyone has an excuse. There was a time in this country not too long ago where you proved your worth and showed you were committed to do it. Now? We just expect it. |
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Quoted: I'll bet they all have $500/month car payments, carry $1,200 phones with a $60/month unlimited plan, stop at Starchucks every day, hit the nightclubs a couple times a week, eat out more than in. I can see why they can't afford rent and live with mom and dad. View Quote Are you serious? I can't tell sarcastic boomer-posting apart from real comments from oldsters anymore. |
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Quoted: It's not about whether it is or it isn't, it's about what happens to your country and your society when you balloon the number of people who cannot sustain traditional human baseline needs (food, shelter, having a family and reproducing) due to economic factors that favor an increasingly small subset of society. I want our country to produce more babies (no, grandpa, importing turd-worlders is not an answer) and have a standard of living that allows for functional families (present fathers who don't have to work 60+ hrs a week, mothers who can afford to stay home instead of cucking their families by working for a man besides their husband, etc) This is really highlighting a split between the old right and the new right. The new right realizes that the free market is great and all, but if it becomes detrimental to the baseline needs of society (preservation of culture, family, good morals- consider the things you typically fight invading armies in order to protect) then it needs to have its leash shortened. The old right sees unfettered capitalism as a hard line in the sand, and if families cannot survive the free market, then perhaps the idea of family itself as an institution must be sacrificed and thrown into the hot fire at the feet of the bronze bull of the market. I personally think that's fucking insane and we ought to try and ensure that all Americans can enjoy a certain baseline standard of living that allows for the millenia-proven bedrock institutions of society to function. The mechanisms of that in many cases may be more free market economics and less govt intervention, but the idea must still be, in every instance, to put the cart behind the horse, and never the other way around just because we read a lot of Ayn Rand. View Quote People will complain about illegals in one thread, then go into a housing price thread and think it’s fine for the younger gens to be priced out of housing. Little do they realize that unless birth rates rise significantly aka younger folks are in positions to start a family, we’ll have to keep importing to make sure the SS checks don’t stop. |
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Quoted: Doing my part, just ordered some Amazon shit View Quote you're gonna want one of these big shooter |
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Quoted: People will complain about illegals in one thread, then go into a housing price thread and think it's fine for the younger gens to be priced out of housing. Little do they realize that unless birth rates rise significantly aka younger folks are in positions to start a family, we'll have to keep importing to make sure the SS checks don't stop. View Quote service guarantees citizenship. |
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Not reading in 3 pages to say replace "Amazon" with "walmart" and welcome to 10 years ago
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Quoted: I'll bet they all have $500/month car payments, carry $1,200 phones with a $60/month unlimited plan, stop at Starchucks every day, hit the nightclubs a couple times a week, eat out more than in. I can see why they can't afford rent and live with mom and dad. View Quote $500 a month car payment? No sugar, they ain't gon' settle for no base model! They want the Eddie Bauer Denali PDiddy edition with seat massagers. $1100/month. And $450 twice at month at Costco. Steaks on the grill, not burgers. And a 55" flat screen isn't enough. How are you NOT going to go big when watching superhero movies, Lord of the Rings, etc? And no old tech LED either. I've known people from very low to very high income levels who can't live within their means or devise a plan and follow through if they want things to improve. Same principle, different amounts. |
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Quoted: Only if it's lujan View Quote wood grow old with her in a doublewide in western kansas. i want to experience all the dysfunction that her people experience. i want to welcome her home from medium security prison and stand by her during her struggles with meth and horse. i want to be there when she results in a new episode of Cops being made. DON'T TAKE HER BOIS I LOVE HER i will scream as the sheriff's SWAT team hauls her away. cot daymmit that little girl rustles my jimmies even if her nether region isn't shaved and/or waxed smoove as tennessee whisly. i need Lujan in my life. |
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My work took me to an accident site that was owned by a bunch of old people, and "managed" by their adult children and grandchildren
They couldn't understand that the horse had already run over the hill and far away. I was there to slam the barn door and pick up the pieces One of the idiots with "vice president" on his office door had his diploma from my old Alma Mater proudly displayed behind his desk His degree? "Entrepreneurship" No shit, the Business Departments at colleges had to find something easier than Marketing to flunk you down to before they had to send them to Liberal Arts or the Psychology/Sociology department when the whole reason they went to collegewas to major in Eskimo Joe's |
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Quoted: I'll bet they all have $500/month car payments, carry $1,200 phones with a $60/month unlimited plan, stop at Starchucks every day, hit the nightclubs a couple times a week, eat out more than in. I can see why they can't afford rent and live with mom and dad. View Quote If you really believe that you’re delusional. I’ve worked in this industry for over 30 years. The entry level are more likely to be driving a beater car, have cracked older phone, and thriving off Monster energy. Probably are living in mom’s basement because the rent is too damn high. |
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Quoted: Amazon is a meat grinder. View Quote If one doesn't know this by now tough luck, learn the hard way. Can't afford to eat, but I bet they all have smartphones, 5G monthly cellular service, monthly home high speed internet, latest gaming consoles, and monthly Netflix and Amazon subscriptions. |
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Quoted: Why do people always say this Most people buy the $500-600 phone and make $10-15 a month payments. Most expensive phone was my sons iPhone 14 for $600. View Quote View All Quotes View All Quotes Quoted: Quoted: Did they report this on their $1000 plus, phones? Most people buy the $500-600 phone and make $10-15 a month payments. Most expensive phone was my sons iPhone 14 for $600. You seem quite brilliant. |
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You think bozos gonna lower his profit margins for the schlums?
Written hit piece to get sympathy to raise wages....they will a small amount and double that cost onto consumers....wallah Low wage workers in production and retail are useful idiots |
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They just need a room packed with bunk beds and problem solved !
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Quoted: So in your mind or utopia a married women with children should not work. What if they want to work? View Quote View All Quotes View All Quotes Quoted: Quoted: I want our country to produce more babies (no, grandpa, importing turd-worlders is not an answer) and have a standard of living that allows for functional families (present fathers who don't have to work 60+ hrs a week, mothers who can afford to stay home instead of cucking their families by working for a man besides their husband, etc) . So in your mind or utopia a married women with children should not work. What if they want to work? Then don't have children. |
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Quoted: Some of you are so ignorant it's unbelievable. People that have full time jobs, are honest, hard working and contributing to society cannot make ends meet. Some of you decide to mock them. You'll bitch and moan about the state of our society, urban decay, crime, broken families etc, but completely ignore the factors that contribute to it. Completely and total ignorance. View Quote I agree 100%, millions of people are doing jobs that used to provide enough for an apartment / car etc, and now simply doesn’t, but those same jobs are critical all the same. Millions can’t make their life function, even if they live frugally, millions have gone under, became homeless, gave up, and millions more went from comfortable to struggling. Things are still getting worse too. It’s extremely serious, and eventually it’s going to effect everyone who’s not super wealthy, and voting isn’t going to fix shit, we’re passed that. Buckle up. |
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Quoted: Some of you are so ignorant it's unbelievable. People that have full time jobs, are honest, hard working and contributing to society cannot make ends meet. Some of you decide to mock them. You'll bitch and moan about the state of our society, urban decay, crime, broken families etc, but completely ignore the factors that contribute to it. Completely and total ignorance. View Quote Vote harder. |
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Quoted: If you really believe that you're delusional. I've worked in this industry for over 30 years. The entry level are more likely to be driving a beater car, have cracked older phone, and thriving off Monster energy. Probably are living in mom's basement because the rent is too damn high. View Quote |
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Quoted: Putting Chinese crap in boxes is supposed to be a "family sustaining job"? View Quote Attached File |
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Quoted: $500 a month car payment? No sugar, they ain't gon' settle for no base model! They want the Eddie Bauer Denali PDiddy edition with seat massagers. $1100/month. And $450 twice at month at Costco. Steaks on the grill, not burgers. And a 55" flat screen isn't enough. How are you NOT going to go big when watching superhero movies, Lord of the Rings, etc? And no old tech LED either. I've known people from very low to very high income levels who can't live within their means or devise a plan and follow through if they want things to improve. Same principle, different amounts. View Quote View All Quotes View All Quotes Quoted: Quoted: I'll bet they all have $500/month car payments, carry $1,200 phones with a $60/month unlimited plan, stop at Starchucks every day, hit the nightclubs a couple times a week, eat out more than in. I can see why they can't afford rent and live with mom and dad. $500 a month car payment? No sugar, they ain't gon' settle for no base model! They want the Eddie Bauer Denali PDiddy edition with seat massagers. $1100/month. And $450 twice at month at Costco. Steaks on the grill, not burgers. And a 55" flat screen isn't enough. How are you NOT going to go big when watching superhero movies, Lord of the Rings, etc? And no old tech LED either. I've known people from very low to very high income levels who can't live within their means or devise a plan and follow through if they want things to improve. Same principle, different amounts. While I agree unrealistic expectations , bad financial decisions and blowing a large chunk of income/ money on unnecessary stupid shit abounds, there’s no denying prices on homes / apartments/ taxes / vehicles / food and everything else have skyrocketed, and wages can’t keep up, the problems are hugely government created, either by doing shit they should not, like attacking business, fossil fuels, importing millions of h1b foreigners, blowing money bailing out banks, car manufacturers , billionaires fucking with home loans , printing trillions and destroying the dollar, or not doing things they should..deport illegals, seal the border, protect the dollar, cut spending, etc. |
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There's no reason to make America great again because there's nothing wrong.
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Quoted: It's not about whether it is or it isn't, it's about what happens to your country and your society when you balloon the number of people who cannot sustain traditional human baseline needs (food, shelter, having a family and reproducing) due to economic factors that favor an increasingly small subset of society. I want our country to produce more babies (no, grandpa, importing turd-worlders is not an answer) and have a standard of living that allows for functional families (present fathers who don't have to work 60+ hrs a week, mothers who can afford to stay home instead of cucking their families by working for a man besides their husband, etc) This is really highlighting a split between the old right and the new right. The new right realizes that the free market is great and all, but if it becomes detrimental to the baseline needs of society (preservation of culture, family, good morals- consider the things you typically fight invading armies in order to protect) then it needs to have its leash shortened. The old right sees unfettered capitalism as a hard line in the sand, and if families cannot survive the free market, then perhaps the idea of family itself as an institution must be sacrificed and thrown into the hot fire at the feet of the bronze bull of the market. I personally think that's fucking insane and we ought to try and ensure that all Americans can enjoy a certain baseline standard of living that allows for the millenia-proven bedrock institutions of society to function. The mechanisms of that in many cases may be more free market economics and less govt intervention, but the idea must still be, in every instance, to put the cart behind the horse, and never the other way around just because we read a lot of Ayn Rand. View Quote There is a lot of good stuff in this post |
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We need to return to a society that realizes that poverty is a great motivator.
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Neighbor kid started mowing lawns at 13. On his way to being a millionaire. But he has gumption.
He can't drive his personally owned truck until he turns 16 this October. No loan on the truck, mowers, trailer or other gear. Doesn't whine about the work either. |
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