• Hemingways_Shotgun@lemmy.ca
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    2 hours ago

    What we need to understand about O’Leary is that:

    a) He likely has an incredibly tiny penis.

    and b) He is absolutely desperate to be seen in the same circle as the likes of Musk, Zuck, Gates, Bezos, etc…

    The reality is that his wealth pales incomparison to those guys, at roughly 150 million. To them, he’s as much a pauper as you and i are. He’s a nobody. And that fucking grinds at him that he’s not a part of the cool kids club. It gnaws at his insides that, in reality, the people above him AND the people below him would literally not give a shit if he fucked off back to Canada and died in obscurity.

    For all of their evil, the group that O’Leary desperately wants to be seen as equal to will at least leave some sort of Legacy. They’ll at least be remembered in the history books, even if just a footnote about their shitty shenanigans.

    O’Leary will be forgotten as soon as he’s in the ground. Probably sooner.

    That’s why he’s suddenly forcing himself into every fucking news program, and awards shows, and trying to strike deals for massive data centers that no one wants. Because he’s a sad and pathetic old man afraid of being forgotten.

    also, did I mention he has an incredibly tiny penis?

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    8 hours ago

    I’ve seen this argument from people before, with avocado toast and Starbucks and everything else, but no one seems to ask why lunch is $28 or blame the people charging $28 for lunch as part of the problem

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    8 hours ago

    Wait is $70,000 a year a low amount of money? That’s an insane amount of money to be considered poor.

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      70k is basically living in the streets in a chunk of America while a few places it’s living like a king.

      But those places are quickly going away.

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      The average income is around $84,000, so if you are making less, your employer is fucking you over. The difference between your income and $84,000, is what your employer stole from you and called “Profit.”

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      If you’re a hit man, you should be making more than that. Unless you’re trying to be a working class hitman, righting wrongs for the little guy, like Luigi.

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    8 hours ago

    Mush brains with a watch on each wrist doesn’t understand how inflation works… Shocker.

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      Remember those guys that had to have a Bluetooth ear piece in each ear so they could have multiple conversations going at once, to demonstrate how important they were, or had business cards with a photo that showed the guy talking on the phone because he’s just too damn busy to put down the phone for 5 seconds and look at the camera for the photo that’s going on his BUSINESS card, also why are you putting a photograph on your business card, that’s just stupid.

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    It’s insulting that this guy says 70k like it’s a low salary (for “kids” as he says). I make a quarter of that. I also know a lot more retired old people who never made close to that in their lifetime than ones who did make that much

    And if I did make that much it would still feel insulting because I’m pretty sure most people making 70k can easily afford weekly $28 lunches…

    Edit: Just saw that this motherfucker is wearing two expensive watches on the photo… absolutely repulsive person

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      A lot of older folks made more than 70k by a fair margin when you account for buying power and quality of life.

      You have to adjust numbers for more then just inflation if you want a remotely accurate comparison.

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      8 hours ago

      Adjusted for inflation the average worker in the 80’s and 90’s made way more than 70k a yr. I made 60k in 2000, that’s $120k today.

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        Yeah the fact that the wages are stagnating is another thing, I’m just saying from where me and most of the people of all ages in my life are standing, 70k is a lot.

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          Depends on the city you live in and your situation. Single in a small town 70k good. Family of 4 in the city and you wouldn’t even qualify for a home loan and are probably in assistance.

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            70k is 3,5k/mo after taxes in my country. Doesnt really matter where you live with that you could be paying 2500 in rent and still be loaded for the month. Look all I’m saying is this O’Leary guy is a fucking prick and most people never see 70k in their lifetime

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    I get drive through or take out for lunch every day, but it’s not to waste money. It’s so I have an airtight reason/excuse to get the FUCK out of this place for a period of time every day.

    It’s the one thing keeping me from being on the front page of the local paper.

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    I went to Subway last night. You know, the 5-dollar footlong place.

    A footlong sub was $12 (not the meal - just the sandwich).

    McDonalds is charging 8 dollars for a breakfast muffin.

    My rent has gone from 800 to 2000 since Covid.

    I have to fill my tank 3 times a weeks, and right now that costs 50 bucks.

    On top of that, I have to help my parents out because their pension didn’t account for real-world inflation and their extremely comfy retirement turned out not to be nearly enough when the grocery bill doubled.

    That 73k I make does less than the 30k I made back in 2016.

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      12 hours ago

      now imagine you still make 30k and also most of your friends cant get jobs to begin with and still with parents in their mid 20s and also half of them are having mental breakdowns and thats the gen z experience

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        11 hours ago

        I get it. I am barely past living paycheck-to-paycheck having changed nothing about my lifestyle since I made half as much (using the same same rental, car, laptop, and everything), so making 30k today would be worse than making minimum wage was just a few years ago, when it was already shamefully low.

        I do have a new job that pays way more, but my commute is absolute dogshit because the place I work is SUPER expensive. I work for a city where literally 100% of the households are multi-millionaires, and we have a few 11 and 12-figure residents.