I like that idea. We build a community social system of shared resources - maybe even owned by the people working the jobs. Why has no one ever thought of it? I’m sure everyone in the world would get on board.
No that’s stupid. If we used the natural wealth of the planet to ensure a comfortable life for everyone, how would a small proportion of people live extravagantly without actually contributing anything? Don’t you understand economics?
If he bought it outright, he might be ok. Once you own, you get to ride the wave of housing inflation instead of watch it carry the ability to own farther and farther away.
Though if it only gave him a down payment, then he’s still just as much a wage slave dependent on not having a manager that dislikes him, though if he is able to make the payments, the above will still apply. I hope the housing crisis isn’t going to be as bad on the inflation side, but if it continues previous trends, even with a mortgage, he’ll be gaining equity faster than his payments.
Damn that’s a ball ache. I didn’t get any savings when I left home, but at least I didn’t expect any. Just imagining the feeling of having that pulled away… ouch.
Did have parents spot my rent a couple of time; don’t make me out to be ungrateful.
Lots of shitty parents out there. It’s so bad that before you get your first paycheck in boot camp, they march the entire division over to the Navy Federal Credit Union, and whatever Bank was on base, and made you open an account with one of them, your choice. I went with the Credit Union.
Getting the soldiers to open an account seems like a smart move. Much better to get direct deposit and a debit card/checks than to have them cash a check somewhere.
Sailors in my case. I assume they do something similar in the Army and Air Force, as it was a policy the Navy adopted sometime in the Vietnam War era, because too many parents opened bank accounts for their kids with the parents name as well, and cleaned out their pay.
Despite having health insurance I’ve lost my life savings three times now to medically necessary surgery that my insurance only covered a portion of. Insurance that cost a quarter of my income.
When I was in my twenties, I got a hernia. 16k out of pocket.
A bit later, a chair at work collapsed and I broke my wrist, workers comp paid for everything treatment wise including physical therapy, my wrist is still messed up, but workers comp showed me that actual medical care IS possible.
In my thirties, I broke both my ankles when I was knocked down some stairs on the way to catch a bus to work. I went to work, worked 6 hours on broken ankles and then took a bus to the hospital that decided my insurance would only cover one, and the other one was going to be mostly out of pocket. 12k out of pocket.
and then had a polyp on my vocal cord. Health insurance covered about 2000 of that leaving me with an 8k bill. My supplemental Aflac insurance covered the cost of a taxi (up to 40 dollars one way!) to the doctor for follow up appointments.
Now I can’t walk right, can’t lift shit, and can barely afford insurance, I need a follow up surgery for my hernia and I’m better off losing my job and going on medicaid than trying to keep a job and pay for it myself.
Crippling medical debt that builds interests rapidly and can’t be discharged through bankruptcy. It helped fill out my plate alongside the student loan debt that builds interest rapidly and can’t be discharged through bankruptcy.
That’s basically debt slavery isn’t it?! Sounds like a benefit gig for bankers if you ask me. Here in the UK our free health care system is a national treasure. It’s not perfect but it works.
Can’t be “stressed enough” that this is a union shop?
Just come on out and post a couple links to anti-union propaganda while you’re at it.
Typical because one union isn’t great they all suck comment or something? How is the title misleading if this is actually what happened: “guy misses no work and gets a house thanks to donations”
What is misleading about that?
Wanna know what the real thing that should be stressed is? The part where he calls it the “American Dream”. What is the dream exactly…? Slave your ass away and hope someone buys you a house?
Edit: I looked through 7 different articles. Not one mentioned that this was a union shop. Post proof of him being a union member for the duration of his employment, post proof of when the union was voted in.
“Then as our family grew and he remarried, he continued to work there because of the amazing health insurance that was provided through this employer because it was unionized. This got all four of his daughters through high school and college with full healthcare coverage.”
Bro, Did you stop to think that maybe this is all he knows how to do? Did you stop to think that maybe he tried other things before being stuck at burger king?
I mean duhhhh, it’s super easy to go to school while taking care of a family on a budget that’s too low as it is for the hope that maybe you’ll get hired as a junior developer in the completely, insanely, oversaturated market. All you need to do is skip unessential things like food and sleep, leave your kids outside while you work so no daycare costs (freezing builds character) and go to school at night! Then it’s just a breeze of sending 100s of applications and maybe hearing back from one of them in a years time.
“Guy who works in food service admits that he went to work sick and likely spread it to hundreds of people because it’s the only way he could make ends meet, and now he can afford a house but not because of his hard work, but because it went viral on the internet.”
It kind of mirrors the story of Typhoid Mary in a way, where it’s thought that one of the reasons why she kept going back to work as a cook, spreading Typhoid fever, was because she was homeless and on the verge of poverty.
Presumably, if she had been offered an out that wasn’t being institutionalised, and locked up on an island for indefinite quarantine, or risky surgery, she might have taken it, and the story would have never panned out.
I don’t know if I like this interpretation, I mean it’s true and i don’t like it, but it puts blame on him for the fucked up system… With the shitty pay and hours of fast food we don’t know if missing even one day of work means he couldn’t pay bills.
Even in an ideal fully automated luxury gay space communist society, nothing is ever truly completely automated, you’ll need some people you can count on to be there to push the buttons every day. This is one of those people, our society just wastes him.
I’m not trying to put the blame on him. I’m more trying to say that maybe he should be paid enough to afford housing and his job should provide sick days and maybe even Healthcare. This guy was grinding himself to death while putting others at risk just so he could get by. That’s not his fault. He was doing what he needed to do to get by. It’s messed up that he had to do that.
Sensationalist bullshit. Nobody works 27 years in Burger King unless there is something fucked up in his life. If it was really that bad, there would be a link to the actual article.
Have you seen the show? The writer can’t stop forcing his weird kinks and pedo stuff for two god damn episodes.
Oh what’s this? Bondage scene with a naked kid! Let’s focus way too much on Regs child penis! Oh look now Riku is peeing herself! Now get ready to see a child disciplined in a suspiciously sexual way! Oh you thought you were out of the piss zone after the second peeing incident? Here’s more piss and to add to that, Riku is now shitting with weirdly much focus on that! And now for good measure let’s strap Reg to a BDSM chair and shove a ruler up his ass for good measure! Did I mention a main trait of a prominent Narehate’s is that he has a filthy smelly butt?
I wanted to like the show but the constant fetish and pedo crap is unbearable.
It really is a great Manga but it does also have child nudity and other sus stuff. Unfortunately the weeb community as a whole has a pretty lax feeling toward that sort of stuff because of decades of normalizing that sort of stuff in anime and Manga.
Lmao as if every single anime is the same as this one weird outlier
Of course the rest of the show is actually really good but I’m not going to fault anyone for being grossed out by the absolutely gross shit that’s also there
I dont care about the link. My issue is with sensationalist non-linked pictures being normal and unmoderated.
dumbass
Oh wow someone had their blood boiling. Have fun with the mods. I hope you have fun with them because I have had a good track record of not using offensive language towards others up until now. :3 It would be a shame if that was a waste.
I would like to sincerely apologize on behalf of people here that offensive language by people trigger you, please accept that there are many people out there who are dumb and trying to troll you.
You are stronger than that, you are smarter than them, you are better than them and you should elevate yourself by simply ignoring them; otherwise you are a pearl-clutching cupcake-eating obese limp-wrist bitch and should not read naughty words that make you feel bad on the internet.
Let’s suppose what you are saying is true. Burger King job is only for those people with fucked up lives, and provides no option for them to unfuck their lives. Even if they work there for 27 years, their lives will still be fucked.
Supposing all that is true, then why do we allow them to do business at all? If a company exists only through the exploitation of desperate, “fucked up” workers, without any expectation of them “un-fucking” their lives, why do we allow them to remain in business, competing with responsible companies that actively improve society and the economy?
If Burger King actually operates the way you imply, they should be ejected from the market, so that non-exploitative businesses are not forced to compete with them.
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