You’re not depressed. You just need $250,000 in your bank account.
Reblog to materialize $250,000 in prev's bank account
survived checking my bank account. i deserve a little treat
this had better not alter the Numbers in my bank account
by Talos this can't be happening
this is like just a fourth of a whole musical medley addressing that you can’t live like the simpsons anymore. harsh :(
DID MODERN SIMPSONS JUST DROP A WELL PRESENTED TRUTH BOMB
YO WHAT THE FUCK THE SIMPSONS REALLY JUST LAYING IT ALL OUT THERE
I appreciate that they actually got Robert Reich to participate (although I imagine he was easy to persuade as his whole shtick is this kind of thing)
Robert Reich? The former US secretary of labor and Dropout TV star Sam Reich’s literal father, Liberal Icon Robert Reich?
harsh truth: Boomers just showed up
as in showed up to a place
asked hey you hiring and if they were then
they just trained you
for the job
just like that
✨wow✨
an old roommate told me a story about how in the early 90s her mom showed up to this place to interview for a secretary job
guy from an office across the hall pops his head out and asks if she's here for them, a computer position
she says no nope nu uh I know nothing about computers and he goes WE'LL TRAIN YOU PLEASE WE NEED PEOPLE and yanks her off her feet and through the door
today she's a highly sought after computer technician making bank
the point is that once the economy was so amazing that you could get fired from most jobs and have a new one the following week or even the next day
For reference, the federal minimum wage would have you earning roughly on average $1,256.66 a month
It’s recommended your rent only be 30% of your total budget, so with an average monthly rent of $1,827 that would mean your average renter’s monthly income should ideally be $6,090
That would be roughly $35.13 hourly or $73,080 annually
However, the average renter’s household income is only $42,500 annually or $20.43 hourly (as of 2019 according to the Census Bureau’s American Community Survey)
This means either rent prices are too unsustainably high and price gouging or wages are too unsustainably low and predatory
Or both
(Hint: it’s both)
not to mention most apartments won’t even allow you to apply unless you make 3 times rent.
I feel like a good shorthand for a lot of economics arguments is "if you want people to work minimum wage jobs in your city, you need to allow minimum wage apartments for them to live in."
"These jobs are just for teenagers on the weekends." Okay, so you'll use minimum wage services only on the weekends and after school. No McDonald's or Starbucks on your lunch break.
"They can get a roommate." For a one bedroom? A roommate for a one bedroom? Or a studio? Do you have a roommate to get a middle-wage apartment for your middle-wage job? No? Why should they?
"They can live farther from city center and just commute." Are there ways for them to commute that don't equate to that rent? Living in an outer borough might work in NYC, where public transport is a flat rate, but a city in Texas requires a car. Does the money saved in rent equal the money spent on the car loan, the insurance, the gas? Remember, if you want people to take the bus or a bike, the bus needs to be reliable and the bike lanes survivable.
If you want minimum wage workers to be around for you to rely on, then those minimum wage workers need a place to stay.
You either raise the minimum wage, or you drop the rent. There's only so long you can keep rents high and wages low before your workforce leaves for cheaper pastures.
"Nobody wants to work anymore" doesn't hold water if the reason nobody applies is because the commute is impossible at the wage you provide.
Tax heaven 3000 is out! Unfortunately I'm stuck at work so I can't play it and post updates yet
it’s real
:(
She called cryptocurrency a pyramid scheme! I love her
a solid chunk of the dialogue is about how you shouldn’t use turbotax because they’re a scummy company. As a non-American I’ll just have to take their word for it
Finished it. It actually gives you a pdf of a tax form filled with all the details you provided, and gives instructions on how to complete it and send it in. Mine is obviously very fake due to not being an American.
I hope they continue updating it for each year, because a free game with an anime waifu being used as real tax software would be better if it's not a one-time thing
Love it but im gonna recommend people stick with irs-recommended services (that aren’t turbotax)
Still
This site is GOLD
They’re sold out of the deluxe edition that comes with a body pillow :/
If you click on the banner that says “x-rated patch” it instead brings you to a wattpad story that is not x-rated
AND SHES A ROGUE TAX AI?????