40 Work Memes To Laugh At The Pain Of Having To Work All Our Lives

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Being paid minimum wage isn't wage theft. Wage theft is when you aren't paid for things like overtime, or when you're docked an hour because you were 5 minutes late. The fact that soooo many people have had their aspirations come crashing down around their ears after being faced with the uncomfortable truth that you don't get everything you want just because you try your hardest, and instead of adapting, and doing something else....like one of the millions of SKILLED labor jobs that are currently unfilled, they default into flipping burgers, or more commonly, downloading an app, working whenever they want to and then rationalizing that also makes them an employee. Have you noticed the "Ghost kitchen" thing? Multiple fast food places, moved into a single non descript, kitchen for delivery only, with 1/10th the workforce and no change in quality, speed or output, a stopgap until they can be automated completely, which is already underway.

More directly, the economy is a cycle. When workers have more money to spend, more local businesses flourish. When money disproportionately goes to the mega rich, it's not being diversified into many local businesses. Those businesses suffer. In the U.S., the wealthiest 10% of people own 90% of the stock market. The money needs to go to the workers, who will put it back into the community -- not so disproportionately to the shareholders.

Ghost kitchens are great, and I have zero problems with them. There are several where I live where new chefs who can't afford their own storefront or food truck prepare meals exclusively to go. It gives them opportunities, ditto the delivery drivers (which here, happens mostly on bicycles -- the cyclists are paid $20/hr plus tips and gear stipends) and allows customers to try more foods. Changing business models is not a bad thing.

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I'm 38, left the US 10 years ago, and Americans continue to have no clue about how anything works outside of their own little precious bubble. If you make over $4000 a year, you're in the top 50% of wealth globally. All the constant "points" about how much McDonalds pays 24 euro's an hour in Denmark, contrasts with the reality that once taxes, and medical insurance are deducted, they take home less than half of that. I just happen to take issue with the great wave of apathy in which everyone assumes that what they quantify as a "need" justifies everyone else having to adjust to meet their expectations while they get to default into the path of least resistance.

What are the rest of the numbers ?? For example : 4000 dollars in one country ( or even state or city ) is not the same as 4000 in another . If rent is 5 bucks a month 4000 is great , if rent is 1000 a month 4000 isn’t getting you anywhere … Also, if 4000 a year is considered rich and the number don’t work for people to live off that then why the heck is being in the top 50 percent of wealth anything to be proud of ?? Instead this should be horrifying and shocking and FIXED!!.. needs- a home, food, water, clothing Minimum wage in my area does not provide this Above minimum wage in my area does not provide this So whoopy s**t that according to you I’m wealthy , I’m still gonna forking starve to death Jack ass

Rest of the numbers? Look at Denmark. Starting pay for McDonalds is actually $22 an hour, but they have a tax rate of 52%, which means they take home $10.56/hr which is $422/week and $1690/month. Cost of a 1 bedroom apartment varies between $900-1200 Some include utilities in that cost, many do not Then you add in the cost of food, phone, internet, transport and all the things included in "having a life" and what exactly are you left with? There are 800 million people actively starving, 2 billion are starving or "food insecure" 100's of millions live on less than $1 dollar a day, there are 40 odd million SLAVES across the world, and yet so many people in america can't figure out how to support themselves because they can't figure out how to move more than 2 miles in any direction in pursuit of that solution.

Taxes should go up. For EVERYONE. Tax rates in america range from 0% (below $12,700/yr) up to 37%. While all of the socialists utopia's have tax rates that start around 50% and just keep climbing the more you make. With no earning minimum. Did you get paid $1 to take out the trash? We'll you're gonna give 52 cents to the government. America's billionaires have a combined wealth of 4.6 trillion. If you took all of that money away from them, it would cover the entire populations health care costs....for less than 18 months. Meanwhile, if you did what every other socialist country does, which is tax everyone 50%, the median tax collection would go from 10,000 to 20,000 and generate 2.4 trillion in taxes. Every year. Which doesn't even account for the 30% of Americans that pay 0% income taxes because the fall below the earning minimum. Everyone seems to think that all of their problems are someone else responsibility to find or fund solutions for.