Post 9icNi57qPX7AoyYDp2 by floppyplopper@knzk.me
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(DIR) Post #9ic9zin0nNxdOxK8hc by Ferretsyndicate@radical.town
2019-05-08T17:58:25Z
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Ah, yes, USA TODAY, American workers are feeling squeezed because they are gluttonous, wasteful dipshits who spend too much on things like *checks notes* internet connectivity, transportation, and food.
(DIR) Post #9ic9zj3Jol0MDWxA7U by lanodan@queer.hacktivis.me
2019-05-08T22:35:56.552286Z
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@Ferretsyndicate That and:> Online Shopping> An actual shopping cart
(DIR) Post #9icDUttdqkvogkz3wm by moonman@shitposter.club
2019-05-08T23:15:13.562274Z
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@ferretsyndicate if you choose inessential versions of them, like eating out, and ridesharing, yes.
(DIR) Post #9icNKtjMbugyov2seu by bort@comrade.abortu.com
2019-05-08T17:59:04Z
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@Ferretsyndicate BUT WHAT ABOUT ALL MY AWESOME SUBSCRIPTION BOXES?!?!? FFS. Out of touch assholes.
(DIR) Post #9icNLKzbFeirN5qjDM by Ferretsyndicate@radical.town
2019-05-08T18:00:19Z
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@bort I loved "personal grooming." How dare we not look like slobs?
(DIR) Post #9icNM9S1eFAZrjX8Sm by bort@comrade.abortu.com
2019-05-08T18:01:33Z
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@Ferretsyndicate I literally have been cutting my own hair and haven't bought a new pair of pants in 4 years because I'm so poor. This shit makes me wanna fart in someones eye.
(DIR) Post #9icNMVH8VPWzYKbkXo by dankwraith@monads.online
2019-05-08T18:01:11Z
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@Ferretsyndicate impulse purchases labeled with a t shirt. love too only wear tattered rags
(DIR) Post #9icNMVRPtBkq4DPxZI by Ferretsyndicate@radical.town
2019-05-08T18:04:07Z
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@dankwraith "Online shopping" because fuck you if no store near you supplies what you actually need.
(DIR) Post #9icNN7vWngQ5QbnXmK by Archmage@elekk.xyz
2019-05-08T18:06:01Z
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@Ferretsyndicate "Personal Grooming" without which you can't even get hired for a job, but is "nonessential"
(DIR) Post #9icNRvExOdQvWsAknQ by DJWalnut@pleroma.weirdart.space
2019-05-09T01:06:44.315910Z
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@Ferretsyndicate @dankwraith you know all that newfangled technology is why Millennials are poor it? It has nothing to do with the high cost of how was ingra education or Healthcare it's these kids and their Pokey Mans on their iPhones. Back in my day...
(DIR) Post #9icNSb7zeuopRREmm0 by Ferretsyndicate@radical.town
2019-05-08T18:06:45Z
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@bort I feel like every major US paper publishes a "fuck you, you're poor because you spend too much on surviving" article at least 2x a year.
(DIR) Post #9icNSpnd6uRUwcpEcC by bort@comrade.abortu.com
2019-05-08T18:07:26Z
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@Ferretsyndicate Only twice? It's like damn near constant now. They do that shit on the bird site and get ratioed real hard on the daily.
(DIR) Post #9icNTPP4jgBxMtc8LA by Tau_Leonis@meow.social
2019-05-08T18:10:04Z
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@Ferretsyndicate According to the GOP we are supposed to sit in a barren room and stare at a wall while eating nothing but white rice and reflecting on how we are a burden to the holy taxpayers.
(DIR) Post #9icNTvjkWLk7eHX60W by moonwater@witches.live
2019-05-08T18:12:41Z
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@Ferretsyndicate nonessentials like “buying lunch” ...
(DIR) Post #9icNUdjwuy2y7dxsQa by bort@comrade.abortu.com
2019-05-08T18:10:50Z
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@Ferretsyndicate That chase one was pretty epic lol.
(DIR) Post #9icNUdw0C9gij1bVDM by Ferretsyndicate@radical.town
2019-05-08T18:13:11Z
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@bort Ew, like Chase bank?
(DIR) Post #9icNUe5vbFczDoFQga by bort@comrade.abortu.com
2019-05-08T18:14:23Z
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@Ferretsyndicate Yeah, those fucks were trying to tell us how to save money, similar to your OP, but way more stupid. It was some asinine shit.
(DIR) Post #9icNYV4R5pRaOOO72e by DJWalnut@pleroma.weirdart.space
2019-05-09T01:07:55.567877Z
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@bort @Ferretsyndicate remember when McDonald's told their workers to go without Heating and take a second job to pay the Bills?
(DIR) Post #9icNZPDEMJkkVsvvWa by Ferretsyndicate@radical.town
2019-05-08T18:14:47Z
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@bort Absolutely absurd.
(DIR) Post #9icNZPZuzxtveFY2t6 by bort@comrade.abortu.com
2019-05-08T18:15:21Z
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@Ferretsyndicate Yeah, pretty rich coming from a company who WE bailed out as taxpayers.
(DIR) Post #9icNZbIdQ3Cq07YPc8 by garfiald@mastodon.social
2019-05-08T18:14:48Z
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@Ferretsyndicate i fucking hate it when i impulsively buy a white t shirt for $109 dollars. ive got dozens of these
(DIR) Post #9icNa6J48UyEAQzh5c by spamilton@radical.town
2019-05-08T18:18:55Z
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@Ferretsyndicate welcome to life! Joy is nonessential
(DIR) Post #9icNbLsVj64ikfAaWm by KitsuneAlicia@octodon.social
2019-05-08T18:21:01Z
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@Ferretsyndicate Everything on this list is literally because millennials work so long and for so little that we don't have time to make our own meals or afford our own car or whatever.My parents spent way more than that on recreational stuff back before wages stagnated and we were middle class because they actually had good enough wages ($20/hr, give or take) to where 40 hrs/wk was enough to live on.Fucking ageist bigots deliberately ignore this context.
(DIR) Post #9icNcOIyBnGeZG2cee by KitsuneAlicia@octodon.social
2019-05-08T18:22:31Z
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@Ferretsyndicate Side note: I just wanna reiterate the $20/hr. wages that were required in order to not be in poverty IN THE 1980s AND 1990s! With inflation, that has definitely gone up since then.
(DIR) Post #9icNgUjgDnYVfeUXYG by DJWalnut@pleroma.weirdart.space
2019-05-09T01:09:22.289055Z
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@KitsuneAlicia @Ferretsyndicate I'm intending to learn how to cook but depression makes it hard to be able to. My mood and feelings of mental well-being determine my eating habits on a day-to-day basis
(DIR) Post #9icNhO9oAM8TYc8gPg by KitsuneAlicia@octodon.social
2019-05-08T18:39:18Z
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@Ferretsyndicate Oh, btw, I love how they apparently consider CLOTHES to be "Impulse Purchases". They might've had a case if they put a candy bar there, but that shirt icon just wipes what slim chance at credibility that they had clean away.
(DIR) Post #9icNi57qPX7AoyYDp2 by floppyplopper@knzk.me
2019-05-08T18:40:40Z
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@Ferretsyndicate What proportion of my disposable income is spent on "nonessentials"? All of it of course, by definition.Also note use of "typical American" and "average". All these averages will be heavily skewed by how the 1% spend. Everything that follows is either deliberately or recklessly misleading.
(DIR) Post #9icNk2b6mTQ3YmAnjc by DJWalnut@pleroma.weirdart.space
2019-05-09T01:10:00.768227Z
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@floppyplopper @Ferretsyndicate exactly. Who spends $90 a month on subscription boxes?
(DIR) Post #9icNkZBNd9RmcXODiK by clarjon1@connected.cat6.network
2019-05-08T18:45:33.953243Z
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@KitsuneAlicia @Ferretsyndicate Preventing exposure from the elements and indecency charges is non-essential, clearly.
(DIR) Post #9icNlGLT9W4EUHRNuS by KitsuneAlicia@octodon.social
2019-05-08T18:46:30Z
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@clarjon1 @Ferretsyndicate Good. That means I can go into work naked and the dress code is invalid.
(DIR) Post #9icNnwocDk12mkM0O0 by Sapphaos@biscuit.town
2019-05-08T19:02:02Z
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@Ferretsyndicate concerned by the $91 tbh, why do you need that many cables
(DIR) Post #9icNnxBeq4RnwD8PIm by DJWalnut@pleroma.weirdart.space
2019-05-09T01:10:41.520573Z
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@Sapphaos @Ferretsyndicate I think they mean cable TV, the only thing on this list that's even remotely frivolous, and it's more of a boomer thing anymore
(DIR) Post #9icNoPxpqXcdBjtHHc by platypus@glammr.us
2019-05-08T19:05:04Z
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@Ferretsyndicate like what does “online shopping” even mean??? Other than that they’re stretching. This also reminds me of a thing I saw suggesting fridges were a sign of wealth. In US households. As though it’s possible to eat well and cheaply without one.
(DIR) Post #9icNsWFKQoXNpY1poW by DJWalnut@pleroma.weirdart.space
2019-05-09T01:11:32.724257Z
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@platypus @Ferretsyndicate Fox News than that one. Conservative sold to say America is the greatest country on Earth yet they tell you that you should be grateful that you're not being on a dirt floor in the refrigerator, as if the greatest country in the world would have that as its living standard
(DIR) Post #9icNt5nEGlS24p9u0u by felix@radical.town
2019-05-08T19:13:20Z
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@Ferretsyndicate That is about 1400 usd per month. Just one more lesson why averages dont matter and we should look at the median.
(DIR) Post #9icNttCQZrirJAKDaq by BalooUriza@meow.social
2019-05-08T22:18:37Z
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@Ferretsyndicate Car ownership strangely missing from this list. That's like $8000/year right there.
(DIR) Post #9icNvS50NYQ9mEb9zU by pearshapes@snouts.online
2019-05-08T22:46:29Z
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@Ferretsyndicate hold it! * Phoenix Wright Cornered music starts playing, camera zooms in on my face* who the fuck spends nearly 100 dollars a month on subscription boxes! why is it average for ppl to spend 100 dollars a month on subscription boxes!!!
(DIR) Post #9icNzSmViCZv6yrPEW by DJWalnut@pleroma.weirdart.space
2019-05-09T01:12:48.021793Z
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@BalooUriza @Ferretsyndicate of course we've bungled urban planning and Sky Tree so bad that you practically do need one. I broke down last month and bought myself a vehicle off Craigslist for real cheap and I am super glad I did. I'd like to live somewhere where a car would be optional but I can't just magically will that into existence otherwise I would have already
(DIR) Post #9icNzziPGTu5FoC5uy by Ferretsyndicate@radical.town
2019-05-08T22:59:49Z
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@pearshapes It's the upper incomes skewing the numbers up, as these are all averages. I've never ordered one subscription package personally.
(DIR) Post #9icO0Z9ZVTQhACAmcS by pearshapes@snouts.online
2019-05-08T23:02:51Z
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@Ferretsyndicate im starting to think that the upper income folk skewed the numbers pretty hard if im honest
(DIR) Post #9icO1UJoy2UqSUPH0a by aflightybroad@knzk.me
2019-05-09T00:21:13Z
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@Ferretsyndicate @BalooUriza oh see that's an essential though. unlike ride shares, which are also transportation but like, for entitled Americans, not noble car havers.(I am joking)
(DIR) Post #9id42ZCGVoq5x64MdM by sim@shitposter.club
2019-05-09T09:03:58.304256Z
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@moonman @ferretsyndicate Most of that seems quite excessive too. Spending too much per month on it.
(DIR) Post #9idSPXKW18SHiqPjXM by tomas@social.umeahackerspace.se
2019-05-09T13:36:44+00:00
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@ferretsyndicate How dare the proles eat anything but gruel and groom themselves, and share fuel costs with the other proles. Have they no shame?