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Posted on 5/22/22 at 4:02 pm to 777Tiger
$50000 a year is not or has never been poverty level
Posted on 5/22/22 at 4:03 pm to Dire Wolf
LMAO, that's not how it works that's not how any of this works
Posted on 5/22/22 at 4:03 pm to Jsand43
You can live a decent QOL in flyover states at 50k/year.
Posted on 5/22/22 at 4:04 pm to DCtiger1
quote:Chicken isn't cheap, but a whole rotisserie chicken runs $6.99 at the grocery store. $5.10 if you want it uncooked. So $200/week is a lot of chicken.
Chicken isn’t cheap. I just came of meal prep for a show and my food cost was 200/week and I’m talking meat and rice
Posted on 5/22/22 at 4:04 pm to lsupride87
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Looking through that grocery list, you would be very lean trying to live on that. There is no real protein for lunch/dinner besides deli meat
It's not a uniform list that is repeated every week, other weeks would be heavier on protein but light on other stuff you already have from a previous week, one week might have a big thing of toilet paper but then you don't have to buy that for several more weeks, see?
Posted on 5/22/22 at 4:06 pm to Dire Wolf
quote:Only in West Virginia.
Wouldn’t that just be your son in law?
Posted on 5/22/22 at 4:07 pm to deeprig9
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Something else that young people don't do anymore is getting a second job. You get that 9 to 5 with all your benefits and the pay covers all of your basic necessities. Then you get that part time second job for fun money. Younger people today wouldn't even think of such a thing!
Most folks want something better than they had for their kids and grandkids. When we are approaching the level that every young person needs 2 jobs to survive, we have failed massively as a society.
I’d also love to know in the case of the OP’s company thinking that $15/hr is such an awesome deal, how many of their warehouse employees are getting by only because of taxpayer funded handouts, be it food stamps, rental assistance, etc. I’d also love to know what exactly the advancement options really are for those employees. To me it sounds just like a glorified ad for a dead end job. Every company ever has always said there’s paths to promotion. Reality is the number of warehouse workers getting promoted is probably limited to a handful at best. And I’d bet the requirements for advancement are to have a college degree.
There’s definitely some younger folks living way beyond their means or expecting way too much, but there’s a heck of a lot of older folks in this thread that are completely out of touch with reality.
As a reference point, both of my teenage granddaughters still in high school earn close to that $15/hr figure. It’s absurd to think that’s an ok wage to offer for someone supporting themselves when the same wage can be earned by kids living at home still.
And, that $15/hr is remarkably close to what I made in my early 20s forty years ago. I can definitely recall months where I had to watch my expenses towards the end of a pay period. Granted I lived in NYC at the time, but rents were drastically cheaper (even in Manhattan) than we expect people to fork over now. And food was nowhere near what it costs now.
Posted on 5/22/22 at 4:09 pm to Dire Wolf
quote:
Wouldn’t that just be your son in law?
Posted on 5/22/22 at 4:10 pm to Cymry Teigr
Boomers and Zoomers have a lot in common.
Billy Joel - Allentown
quote:
Well we're waiting here in allentown
For the pennsylvania we never found
For the promises our teachers gave
If we worked hard
If we behaved
So the graduations hang on the wall
But they never really helped us at all
No they never taught us what was real
Iron and coke
And chromium steel
And we're waiting here in allentown
But they've taken all the coal from the ground
And the union people crawled away
Every child had a pretty good shot
To get at least as far as their old man got
But something happened on the way to that place
They threw an american flag in our face
Billy Joel - Allentown
Posted on 5/22/22 at 4:10 pm to NC_Tigah
quote:
Chicken isn't cheap, but a whole rotisserie chicken runs $6.99 at the grocery store.
That’s the standard now in the USA, a fricking rotisserie chicken
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Posted on 5/22/22 at 4:11 pm to Oilfieldbiology
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Oh so the expensive stuff. Got it.
5 lb bag chicken strips($14)
Ground meat ($2.99 lb when we bought 3 approx 7lb packages and froze in lb increments)
Mustard isn't expensive, neither is salad dressing or mayo
Also have 3 chuck roasts in our chest freezer that I bought when they were on sale for like $1.99 lb. Throw that in the crock pot with carrots, potatos, and celery. A good hearty meal.
$80 a week is doable if you plan. We also use the HEB coupons or Kroger coupons they send to us for only the products we buy. We aren't eating t-bones every night, but we're not eating ramen noodles every night either.
Posted on 5/22/22 at 4:12 pm to NC_Tigah
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Only in West Virginia.
I was thinking bama
Posted on 5/22/22 at 4:16 pm to bad93ex
They've probably gotten more lax than the last time I looked, and I'm sure there's little enforcement. With Flex, they do have vehicle type requirements, maybe not year requirements. I thought about trying it after some professional acquaintance was bragging about his easy routes, but pickup trucks were a no-no.
Posted on 5/22/22 at 4:16 pm to Oilfieldbiology
Man what a stupid son of a bitch, eh?
Posted on 5/22/22 at 4:17 pm to Mingo Was His NameO
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Same as chick FIL a and other fast food. Labor is expensive right now and your paying fast food wages.
Labor is expensive because people have a way to comfortably survive on the government alone.
If you had to earn a living to feed your family you would get your arse to work.
Now progressives will say this is great! It raises wages! Yes but companies aren’t going to lose money they will just raise prices on everything. This wipes out all the wage gains people think they got.
The only people who lose are people who worked hard and saved their money. Inflation wipes out those savings.
Posted on 5/22/22 at 4:18 pm to nikki6
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5 lb bag chicken strips($14) Ground meat ($2.99 lb when we bought 3 approx 7lb packages and froze in lb increments)
How many 18-20 year olds do you think have access to a large freezer in the apartment the rent? Sure it’s easy for us to just go out and buy two 10# bags of chicken quarters from Rouses at $0.35/lb this week, but where the heck are they going to put it?
Posted on 5/22/22 at 4:19 pm to dawgfan24348
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$15 has been poverty wage for a while now.
Posted on 5/22/22 at 4:21 pm to NC_Tigah
$15 will have you renting in a bad part of town, saving no money for the future, gaining no wealth at all, and living a complete no frills life where you live in basic grocery meals every meal of your life
Define that how you want
Define that how you want
This post was edited on 5/22/22 at 4:22 pm
Posted on 5/22/22 at 4:26 pm to Cymry Teigr
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but where the heck are they going to put it?
In their regular freezer.
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