If they can afford a smartphone, they obviously don't need EBT.
The great resignation—where is the hired help?
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I would pick at the Escalade that costs 80 iPhones first, but overall I agree.
Elyse8743
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I had a girl live with me for a couple months, she'd just turned 18, claimed to have been kicked out of her parents house. Basically, she chose not to go to her parent's church and didn't like that they forced her to go while she lived there. Played the pity card about how much her parents sucked, were horrible, didn't love her, didn't care for her, etc. (she knew that something similar ACTUALLY happened to me when i was 18 so she used the story to get pity lol)
They were 100% covering her car (they gave it to her), car insurance, her schooling (she dropped out of HS to go to hair school), her cell phone bill, and I'm pretty sure she had access to their credit cards because she was going out and getting huge tattoos, 100$ shoes getting delivered every other day, i mean the girl just SPENT on everything. I offered her cheap (like $200 rent) and she'd give me $400 each month (about the only nice thing she did lol) so I'm pretty sure she was pulling from her mom's account.
She was still able to apply for EBT and got a few hundred a month. And she worked (very) part time and collected unemployment. But the state sucked because it wasn't as much as she wanted, etc.
It was insane. She never talked to my landlords (who are amazing and I have a GREAT relationship with) but constantly complained and called them terrible people because they wouldn't let her have her cat here. She ended up packing up all her shit and leaving a note and leaving while I was on vacation, because I asked her to let me know if she was going to be gone overnight somewhere so I wasn't worrying about where she was (something I've done with literally anyone I've ever lived with).
I did tell her one time her life wasn't that bad. She had to leave and go smoke weed to handle that hahaha. The entitlement these days is insane.
I would have loved that. I was at Pizza Hut. They told me they hired me to wait tables for the dine-in customers, but stuck me in the back answering the phone for take-out and delivery orders, folding pizza boxes between calls. If it got slow I went and prepped pans and crusts for the next day. I worked the cut table (take pizza out of the oven, cut it and box or plate it) a couple times and waited tables on rare occasion, but I never worked food service again so the only skills I took with me were professionally answering the phone, being reliable, and how motivating minimum wage is (or should be) to get good at something so you can make more. Especially when you cancel plans with your friends because you have work and then you get cut before you've cleared $10.
My next job was at an oil change shop. It paid a little more, I got to work around cars, and the hours were consistent. It's a perfect example of how things are supposed to work. Nobody should be making minimum wage for more than a year.
It is good to be in the field that will fix those things when they break.
They've been threatening this for 25 years...
It's all "you're gonna be replaced by Johnny 5!" until they realize how much maintenance and skilled labor costs add to the overall cost-of-ownership on stuff like this
renting costs more than owning here in Florida. My 2019 rental had a mortgage of $850, I rented for $1350. Housing costs are going up, but not the income.
Yeah, I think maybe Zorba has a different view than many. I literally cannot do my job without a smart phone, which I also use to track purchase/spending, as a safety net for my family (location/emergency beacon), as a calendar to track appointments and make sure I can read email/look up addresses as I'm out and about.
What I never use it for is entertainment lol. Definitely NOT unnecessary for me.
I will say I avoid anything apple, especially iPhones just because of how overpriced they are (apple's phone markup is way higher than any other phone on the market).
This is true...
But the unfortunate reality of the situation is that when minimum wage (an intended "livable" or "decent wage") does not adjust accordingly, it also keep real-wages remarkably low:
So even if you're making 150% of min wage, your wages are still shit. The "living wage gap" as it is commonly referred to is, in many states, double that of min wage itself:
Many would like to think (or erroneously do) that it's related to liberal states with expensive urban areas, but the map above shows differently.
So when people say we need to "raise minimum wage", it has little to do with those earning exactly minimum wage...
So what did you do 15 years ago?
Myself, I don't need internet when I'm "on the go" as the current fashion words it - and neither do 99% of the other people out there. They just think they do. If I *did* really need internet "out and about", I'd have a laptop with a 4G card - cheaper or certainly no more expensive than a smartphone and far more usable.
Yeah that is obvious... He tends to throw his opinions and world views around as absolutes all others should adhere to, which is why I asked the question
My phone (a 2, maybe 3 year old model at this point? I don't even know the model number) as well as my wife's and my kids certainly have some entertainment value, but are really pivotal to allowing us to function efficiently so that we are able to do more of what we want to do. We use it to communicate as a family, especially with two school aged kids (one of which is a multi-sport athlete), to track family stuff, take photos, play music, etc. For work, I can communicate via multiple means as needed and where needed. If something catastrophic were to happen at one of our plants where he lives, I know for damn sure that Zorba would be awfully happy that I have this "luxury" on hand.
I'm an iPhone guy though (the whole house is actually, which has lots of advantages). I didn't want to be but back when I got a job as a DoD contractor, it was either an iPhone or Blackberry. Having had awful experiences with BB up to that point, I went with the iPhone (I think a #4?) and was blown away with how smooth, stable and seamless it worked compared to others at the time (including my personal Samsung). As long as Apple continues to fulfill my needs in regards to a smartphone user, I see no reason to switch. The small price difference compared to other options is nothing, especially when stretched out over the typical 2-3 years I keep my phones for.
I got my first smartphone (back when they were called "PDA with phone capabilities" lol) ~2007 after my daughter was born, so I'm coming up on the 15 year mark.
"Myself" is the key word. You don't speak for 99% of others (thank god, can you imagine what our kitchens would all look like!?!?!?)
What did people do before horses were domesticated? What did people do before online ordering? What did we do before toilets? We can play the "what if" game until the end of time but every question is equally meaningless. Carrying around a laptop with a 4G card when I'm exploring a new city, on a work trip, trying to find a restaurant, finding directions, etc. would be fucking idiotic to me. It would be like sending a fax to the doctor's office rather than an email.
All things that add convenience aren't necessarily a luxury. It's unlikely you wash your clothes in a sink with a washboard. For being a male belly dancer, you're surprisingly Boomery
Anecdote is fun and all, but not necessarily representative of reality...
Study after study shows that the youngest of millennials (through Gen Z) are typically more creative, more patient, and more productive (there are various metrics used to make each assessment across the various studies), while working for the least amount of money, for the most amount of time, but acquiring the smallest amount of wealth in history. All this while the cost of real-estate and non-ordinary goods and services have exponentially grown.
So sure, call it "entitled", but most will probably call it "stop fucking it up so we can raise a family too!"
Of course! How else do you think I AM going to get paid?!They've been threatening this for 25 years...
It's all "you're gonna be replaced by Johnny 5!" until they realize how much maintenance and skilled labor costs add to the overall cost-of-ownership on stuff like this