Kevin O’Leary is a con artist, that’s not like just my opinion
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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Wait is $70,000 a year a low amount of money? That’s an insane amount of money to be considered poor.
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.”
I’d kill to make 70k a year LMFAO
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.
Mush brains with a watch on each wrist doesn’t understand how inflation works… Shocker.
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.
Oh no! Another asshole billionaire who is out of touch with reality. Whatever will we do?
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.
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
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.
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.
These billionaires a poor because they use their jets to fly everywhere.
Its $28 because you rich assholes ruin everything
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.
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
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.
yeah, that sounds really shitty, hope things get better for you - and all of us - soon. solidarity <3
I’ve had to go to 100% home cooking, burning most of any recreational family time I have left.
Just a few years ago, we’d eat out a couple times a week, come home and play board games. Any time we were out for a hot second, we wouldn’t think twice about grabbing dinner.
Fast food used to have lines to the street, mc donalds was so bad they installed second drive through speakers.
Not to say there’s not a fuckton of greed driving this, but if subway is seeing 50% decline in patronage, $5->$12 is just a deathspiral heading for the drain.
I don’t know how this all ever unwinds. Was that our golden age?
I don’t know how this all ever unwinds. Was that our golden age?
Yes, it was. My mother was born in 1939, just before the war. She grew up in the prosperous post-war period, and was married by the end of the fifties, then her and my dad had a great life for the next 60+ years. Jobs were easy to get, prices were low, and we lived on one income until us boys were old enough to be on our own, and my mom got a job out of boredom, and to pay the college bills without a loan. My Dad passed in 2020, a diehard Republican who DESPISED Trump and MAGA, saw right through them instantly, and voted a straight Democratic ticket for the first time in his life, in his last election.
My Mom also hates Trump and MAGA, and worries about the lives of her grandchildren and great grandchildren on a way that NOBODY did even 10 years ago. I have told her that she is lucky to have lived when she did. It seems to have been the very best time for white, middle class Americans in American history, and the only reason it is going away is because the Sociopathic Oligarchs have deliberately taken it from us because they want it for themselves, and they don’t care how bad it gets for the rest of us.
I hope someone kills Kevin O’Leary
Like he killed someone else? It’s only fair.
He knows what he’s talking about. He’s an expert on Zoomers. He knows that generation intimately thanks to his connection with Epstein.
