How Are Unemployed People Affording This Lavish Lifestyle?

[ma96782]

BUT, But, but.....
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Aloha, Mark

 

[Corollagunner]

I think, along with all of the aforementioned presumptions, there's another thing going on influencing SOME Americans, those who are still employed/under-employed, but piling up new cars and buying big things and going out to eat expensive meals every weekend.
Many Americans are financially retarded (I was when I was younger, single, but some people are bad even when older/married) and they feel "rich" when Zillow or Redfin emails them a monthly "Market Report" stating their house is now worth 2-3x more than they paid for it.
Doesn't matter they have a mortgage with likely a 90% remaining balance.....
Doesn't matter they don't actually have that money in hand....

They will go out and rack up credit cards, burn through savings....maybe, even as mentioned, request mortgage forbearance. Maybe they think if they mess up, the bank won't repossess their vehicles during the scamdemic, they won't be foreclosed on, or they think they could liquidate their assets quickly and still be ahead....I guess I dunno, but it does seem strange. Traffic is super heavy, in fact, worse than ever in the Seattle metro area. And we are in the middle of a pandemic? Aren't people dying? In the ICU? Working from home? Unemployed? Why, then, so many people driving around??
Why are all of the restaurants in my area slammed all the time?? None have closed in my town, they are slammed. Stores are super busy all the time, it's true, my neighbors have multiple new vehicles parked outside.
One of my neighbors has 2, yes two, 2022 F-150 Platinums, my other neighbor, an only driver, has 2016 M5, 2021 GMC Sierra and some kind of newer Volvo SUV. All of those vehicles bought in the last 12 months.

Eh...I dunno!!

thank you for confirming what i have been seeing. everyone thinks im making this up, even my family members.

 

[Hawaiian]

All of those supporting socialism for the free money, free housing and other free stuff will be in for a rude awakening when things progress to full blown communism where the government owns everything. Everyone will be required to work, even kids. No more free rides. And for the criminals, steal from a government owned business and you will be sent to a hard labor camp.

 

[ma96782]

Coming from Hawaii.....where the liberals rule. Well.....I believe that The Dem Controls over the politics of Hawaii (and other blue States/strongholds of the Libs) has a lot to do with it.

Not to mention, the corruption that comes with years and years of the one-party system in Hawaii. For those that don't know......some people on "Govt Assistance" can actually do better than the working middle class in Hawaii.

Aloha, Mark

PS.....Yup, in HI it pays not to work. News article from 2013.
http://www.hawaiireporter.com/it-pa...dents-receive-highest-welfare-benefits-in-us/

 

[Ruger Rich]

It took a long time of manged decline to get us where we are today. I won't live long enough to see us get out of this.

Agree brother, and nor will I

 

[OldBroad44]

BUT, But, but.....
Start at 1:10

Aloha, Mark

I think whoever was behind the idea of using low IQ men as soldiers were well intentioned but were civilians who had no idea what was involved in being on the front line in battle. And the result made it obvious that even the ordinary soldier needs serious intelligence to stay alive and not endanger himself more than is necessary.

I watch MMA occassionally. (Gorgeous near-naked men in their primes. Great tattoos also. What's not to love? Hee hee hee. ) I sometimes wonder about the IQs of the champions. I'd guess they're high. Maybe very high. Anyone happen to know?

 

[partsed]

Extreme couponing

I've seen that show!!! Some people even get money back!!! That's how they're doing it!!!

 

[partsed]

A whole lot of people haven't payed their mortgage or rent for over a year.

Hells Bells, people can't even renew their tags on their vehicle(s) and that's a lot cheaper than rent or mortgage payments

 

[Certaindeaf]

Hells Bells, people can't even renew their tags on their vehicle(s) and that's a lot cheaper than rent or mortgage payments

Yep, if you're gonna skate on one might as well skate on them all.

 

[WestCoastEOD]

After leaving the .gov contacting world and entering the civilian general contracting world, I bought a flip house hired a sub to help me speed up completion. Heard a worker complaining to his GF on the phone about not being able to pay bills, so I asked his boss if I could hire the worker for night and weekend work that was outside the scope of our contract. He said yes so I hired the kid at $2 more/hr (in cash, nonetheless!) than my sub was paying him. He showed up once on time and stoned but functional, once late due to hangover and slow, but then finally bailed without notice before the side work was done, f'ing up my schedule. A couple weeks later the kid texted me and said he needed more side work and I said yes but only if he would show up on time and finish the task. Last I ever heard from him. I wonder if he gave up his pack-a-day, weed and booze habits to help pay his bills?

Some people would rather live on the edge of collapse and stress than develop a work ethic or self discipline. No amount of empathy or welfare or charity can fix attitudes like that. And by the same token, I've seen young motivated kids with deadbeat criminal drug addict parents aggressively work their way out of squalor into a comfortable middle class existence without the help of uncle sugar Sammy.

I suspect we are seeing a shift to more of the slacker kid attitude, content to live in mom's basement, no concern about the future or retirement, or lack thereof. Some may feel politically entitled to a perpetual safety net that saves them from their lack of achievement, but some are just oblivious due to substance problems, self deception, and lack of guidance. Some are both.

Most dems believe exclusively in chemical soup + Darwinism = humans, yet create welfare systems to derail the species-improving aspect of Darwinism. They constantly strive for a system with no risk of failure or consequences for bad decisions.

Enabling breeds entitlement.

 

[made in china]

After leaving the .gov contacting world and entering the civilian general contracting world, I bought a flip house hired a sub to help me speed up completion. Heard a worker complaining to his GF on the phone about not being able to pay bills, so I asked his boss if I could hire the worker for night and weekend work that was outside the scope of our contract. He said yes so I hired the kid at $2 more/hr (in cash, nonetheless!) than my sub was paying him. He showed up once on time and stoned but functional, once late due to hangover and slow, but then finally bailed without notice before the side work was done, f'ing up my schedule. A couple weeks later the kid texted me and said he needed more side work and I said yes but only if he would show up on time and finish the task. Last I ever heard from him. I wonder if he gave up his pack-a-day, weed and booze habits to help pay his bills?

Some people would rather live on the edge of collapse and stress than develop a work ethic or self discipline. No amount of empathy or welfare or charity can fix attitudes like that. And by the same token, I've seen young motivated kids with deadbeat criminal drug addict parents aggressively work their way out of squalor into a comfortable middle class existence without the help of uncle sugar Sammy.

I suspect we are seeing a shift to more of the slacker kid attitude, content to live in mom's basement, no concern about the future or retirement, or lack thereof. Some may feel politically entitled to a perpetual safety net that saves them from their lack of achievement, but some are just oblivious due to substance problems, self deception, and lack of guidance. Some are both.

Most dems believe exclusively in chemical soup + Darwinism = humans, yet create welfare systems to derail the species-improving aspect of Darwinism. They constantly strive for a system with no risk of failure or consequences for bad decisions.

Enabling breeds entitlement.

several of my co-workers have teenage or adult children living at home with them. Common factor? They are all allowed to smoke weed since teenage, and all bills are paid for them and the fridge is always full of food.
One guy's "kid" is 27. I've known them 14 years, the kid has been smoking weed since 16.

I teach my 14 y/o that I will not tolerate any of that, drugs, dependency, laziness, etc. I am totally OK with smoking weed and getting drunk once you have a stable job and bills and have been living on your own for a while. You need to have something to lose before you begin partaking in recreational stimulants. Having bills, a job, being too old to move back in with parents, works pretty well to keep most people regulating themselves and showing up to work on time.
However, being allowed to use recreational stimulants before you have any responsibilities is literally one of the worst things any parent can do.

 

[Knebel]

Maybe people have realized that 1 hour of their time is worth more than $10. Afterall you'll be spending more time at a job than awake at home living your life. It also seems like these days there are a LOT of bad employers out there who bully their employees and dont even follow the marginal amount of employment laws in this country.

Oh yeah and also, being unemployed does not automatically make you poor, or a bad person, or worth less.

Having a savings account pays off.

 

[ma96782]

That's WHY......we are moving to legalize MJ (and attempting to de-criminalize many other drugs) in all 50 States.



Is that you Brandon?

Aloha, Mark

 

[WestCoastEOD]

Maybe people have realized that 1 hour of their time is worth more than $10. Afterall you'll be spending more time at a job than awake at home living your life. It also seems like these days there are a LOT of bad employers out there who bully their employees and dont even follow the marginal amount of employment laws in this country.

Oh yeah and also, being unemployed does not automatically make you poor, or a bad person, or worth less.

Having a savings account pays off.

One's time is worth exactly what the market is willing to pay for it. Good workers in sucky jobs leverage their value into better jobs. $10 an hour of self respect is better then -$ per hour strapped into video games, pornhub, or being profession social media activist pining over being deprived of one's birthright to Bernie Sanders' utopia at the expense of other people's labor.

 

[ma96782]

Unfortunately.....today, many people believe that the Govt just needs to give them more in order for them to succeed.

I suspect that.....it's the result of too much Govt teat.

Aloha, Mark

 

[Longwalkhome]

If people had lived long enough to see the changes done to our culture then they might understand where we are today. Folks can't see the difference so it divides us.

 

[Knebel]

However, at $10/h you're still homeless in oregon. There is a whole other problem that involves being too poor to work.

 

[CamoDeafie]

How much does $10 buy today compared to $10 back in 2011?

 

[loadzz]

One's time is worth exactly what the market is willing to pay for it. Good workers in sucky jobs leverage their value into better jobs. $10 an hour of self respect is better then -$ per hour strapped into video games, pornhub, or being profession social media activist pining over being deprived of one's birthright to Bernie Sanders' utopia at the expense of other people's labor.

Fully job cucked mindset. People truly tell on themselves never having worked a low tier job when they think that minimum wage workers have ever been able to negotiate a salary

 

[OldBroad44]

Problem is, what your hour of time is worth depends on whether business interests have been allowed to have all the illegal aliens they want. Where the border was controlled and only legal and reasonable migration is allowed, your hour of time would be worth a lot more than it is now. Likewise, if American business is allowed to ship jobs to places where they are filled by slave labor, then allowed to ship the slave produced goods back and be sold on the American market , that free trade policy is actually importing the values of slavery into US. American business has been doing this and worse for decades now. Inflation adjusted wages in many jobs have stagnated for decades. The US economy has expanded hugely, and nearly all of the increase has gone to business owners. In addition, jobs have become more demanding. Employers expect you to be on call 24/7. Making it hard to have any sort of life or raise your kids. Basically the jobs have got worse and worse. And the internet has opened up many ways for people to start small businesses that bring in some money and allow them to work from home.