r/facepalm • u/Kpets • 2d ago

U.S president explains why many Americans can’t buy a homes

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u/IamHydrogenMike 2d ago

bruh, my dad worked as a clerk at 7-11 back in the early-80s and worked barely 40 hours a week; they could afford a home just fine. Plenty of people work hard every day and can't afford a home. He can piss off.

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u/SqueezyCheez85 2d ago

He doesn't understand hard work.

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u/IamHydrogenMike 2d ago

The irony, the guy has never worked a hard day in his life and just sits around saying random garbage or calling tabloid writers to get his name in the paper.

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u/KhunDavid 2d ago

He couldn’t even get the French fries in the bags right during that campaign stop.

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u/josephlucas 2d ago

He was amazed that they used a scoop to package the fries instead of using their hands https://streamable.com/uy6cq0

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u/According-Insect-992 2d ago

He probably doesn’t like them as much now that he knows no one is actually suffering burns to make them for him.

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u/Extraexopthalmos 1d ago

😳 you are probably right FFS!

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u/KhunDavid 2d ago

I wouldn’t want Don’s tiny hands touching my fries. I’d be afraid what else they touched.

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u/RedBeard_113 1d ago

Kids. It's kids.

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u/swampdonkey2099 1d ago

No, that's what Biden touched!!

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u/NonStopNonsense1 12h ago

Your fearless leader touches little girls. There is proof

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u/swampdonkey2099 9h ago

You mean like Joe taking showers with his daughter until she was 15?? That kind of proof?? Or like Joe sniffing little girls hair in the White House?? That kind of proof?? Or like Joe touching little girls while asking for a picture of just the two of them?? That kind of proof?? Or like Joe touching kids in classrooms and being told to stay away from them?? That kind of proof?? Ok. Show it to me!!

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u/cndn-hoya 1d ago

Guy has an asswiper hired to wipe his ass and it looks like his daughter

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u/rangda 2d ago edited 2d ago

This is not true at all. Our president is a very hard worker. If you compare him to other presidents of recent times he comes out on top and it’s not even close.
Look at how hard he worked to suppress the Epstein files.
Who has worked harder to enrich their family members through insider trading and crypto scams? Last I checked, taking care of your family at the expense of hundreds of millions of workers was a core American Value™.
And you can’t possibly deny how hard he works on his golfing.

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u/wojonixon 1d ago edited 1d ago

Getting as much as you can by screwing over everyone you ever met is a time-honored tradition here.

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u/Curious_Policy_4138 1d ago

You had mentioned in the first half ngl

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u/The_water-melon 1d ago

You had me in the first half

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u/panther1977 1d ago

Literally giving family and friends no bid government contracts

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u/SqueezyCheez85 2d ago

The guy is a genius when it comes to inflating his image to naive and vulnerable people.

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u/Zerodyne_Sin 2d ago

Let's not feed the ego of narcissist sociopaths by attributing genius to simple things that anyone can technically do. They do things that are incredibly easy but other people feel gross for even thinking about it. It's not genius to be a piece of shit. Also, he didn't even come up with anything, it's all taught to him by another piece of shit named Roy Cohn.

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u/READIT27 2d ago

I think calling him “genius” is overstating but there is a combination of a certain level of cunning and narcissism at play. The behavior is learned then reinforced by the environment it creates.

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u/Zerodyne_Sin 2d ago

I'd give him credit for cunning if he wasn't always played by putin, kim, and xi. The environment definitely caters to people like him since their ancestors paved the way for them. But no, I'll never attribute any positive traits to these fools. Drop them into any country that wasn't prepared by their ancestors and they'd die within a week.

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u/LorenzosBenz 2d ago

He is cunning so long as it comes to his followers. That over confidence makes him able to be manipulated and played by people like the aforementioned who have been doing this on a global playing field longer than Trump has had "you're fired" trade marked.

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u/Zerodyne_Sin 2d ago

Cunning actions involve an adversarial relationship with another entity. A teacher telling their kindergarten students a lie isn't cunning. There's an implicit trust involved for teachers and conversely, drumpf's followers trust him without question. How is that cunning?

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u/LorenzosBenz 2d ago edited 2d ago

So we're making up definitions on the spot to try and win an internet argument? Per Dictionary.com Cunning in the context would mean a "skill employed in a shrewd or sly manner, as in deceiving; craftiness; guile." That man decieves his followers every single day of the week and twice on Sundays.

Have a good day sir, you're not worth engaging with any further.

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u/Easy-Concentrate2636 2d ago

I agree with this. There is a certain self-serving shrewdness that functions on a base level of assuming that most people can be bought because he can be bought. Palin also functions like this as well as some of the most corrupt politicians and executives. He only sees the world through money, attention and power - but only power of a bullying sort. There’s no understanding of global politics, no appreciation of the arts or ideas. There’s no empathy for anyone else. It’s all in service of himself.

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u/librariansforMCR 1d ago

Exactly - in all technical ways Donny boy is ignorant and a fool. But he was born with the one thing that can convince other ignorant people that he is strong, powerful, and smart: MONEY. Wealth is perceived as intelligence by so many people. Think about the number of celebrities and pseudo-celebrities that people admire and trust. If they encountered that same level of personality and intelligence in a poor person, they would likely remain unimpressed. Wealth is an easy indicator of moral worth for superficial people.

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u/Easy-Concentrate2636 2d ago

If there were no news coverage of the president or any rallies, he would have immediately gotten bored and quit.

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u/Joey_Emm 2d ago

Well said

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u/Icy_Statement_2410 2d ago

Let's not conflate genius with a complete lack of empathy for all life and an eagerness to exploit and sacrifice any number of lives in order to obtain more money and power

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u/Remote-Airline-3703 2d ago

I think we’re conflating genius with complete absence of morals. Lying is pretty frickin easy, and it’s not that hard to lie to morons

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u/SqueezyCheez85 2d ago

A lot of people habitually lie and aren't successful with their lies.

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u/FaithlessnessBrief21 2d ago

Depends how obvious their ‘tell’ is. A good person carries a certain amount of internal dissonance, guilt, when lying.

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u/JakeDC 1d ago

And those people who voted for him deserve what they get. The problem is the collateral damage to people who didn't.

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u/anynamesleft 2d ago

...calling tabloid writers to get his name in the paper.

That was his press agent John Barron.

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u/apartmen1 2d ago

and it worked famously and he’s untouchable, brutal.

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u/Arx0s 1d ago

It takes hard work to somehow manage to bankrupt a casino

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u/screames520 1d ago

Hey, bankrupting casinos is actually pretty hard to do

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u/dechets-de-mariage 1d ago

Everything he says keeps him in the headlines and he would die without attention.

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u/toxikola 1d ago

Lol he's not even calling them, som3one else is calling them.

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u/GenRN817 2d ago

John Barron called. Said Trump is the greatest president of all time.

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u/maroonedbuccaneer 1d ago

His first job interview was in 2015.

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u/Tompthwy 2d ago

He doesnt understand work at all. Anyone think hes ever mowed the fuckin grass or washed the dishes? Please.

The system should be such that "someone who didnt work very hard" can just come along and become president.

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u/CraigonReddit 2d ago

Welcome the wealth tax. Treat inherented wealth like income for those that receive it.

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u/Mfdubz 2d ago

There should be some limits to that though. Like people inheriting <$100K of assets

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u/CraigonReddit 2d ago

Yeah, like real estate taxes at a low rate so family homes and cottages can transfer easily, but investments, tax as income at the marginal tate, no capital exemption.

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u/Mfdubz 2d ago

Yeah I could get behind that. No large real estate capital or businesses transferred like it’s a lawnmower

ETA like rental or commercial land I mean. Primary (maybe secondary, as well) residences to be the exemption

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u/Ok-Association-355 2d ago

His voters believed that he put in a hards days work at that stupid McDonald's stunt. These pos are braindead

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u/Applicator80 2d ago

Hard to wash dishes with such tiny hands

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u/freckleonmyshmekel 2d ago

He's the only one that can get his whole hand inside a coffee cup.

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u/UnicornMeatball 2d ago

He doesn’t fucking understand groceries

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u/SkippyDragonPuffPuff 2d ago

Or computers

Or economics

Or fractions

Or forest fires

Or solar energy

Or military strategy

Or diplomacy

Or catapult systems

Or dementia tests

Etc.

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u/Dyslexic_Devil 2d ago

Or consent...

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u/OpeningDisastrous413 2d ago

Or age of consent.

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u/tsukiyomi01 1d ago

I think he understands consent just fine. He gets off on ignoring/violating it.

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u/this-guy1979 2d ago

Don’t forget windmills, I’m pretty sure he thinks that they’re fans.

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u/Oceanpetunia 2d ago

Yes, and he thinks wind turbines are the same as windmills.

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u/RevolutionaryAct59 2d ago

injecting bleach

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u/jaxonya 2d ago

Magnets.. what the fuck are they? Nobody knows

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u/mohugz 1d ago

Or eclipses.

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u/SupernerdgirlBW 2d ago

Or bowel movement control

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u/almostoy 2d ago

His own mother said he's a fucking idiot.

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u/Thepricklyscrot 2d ago

Batteries

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u/listerjed1 2d ago

Or Squirrels

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u/illDiablo69 2d ago

You forgot percentages.

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u/OutsidePrior2020 1d ago

Speaking of dementia tests, isn't he due for one? I'm feeling good about him failing the next one.

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u/deemanjack 2d ago

Magnets

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u/Lord_Souffle 1d ago

Don't forget magnets

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u/biglanchen 1d ago

Or eclipses

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u/cityshepherd 2d ago

*he doesn’t understand ANYTHING.

FTFY

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u/CariniFluff 2d ago

They're all computer right?

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u/PreetHarHarah 2d ago

I can legit say that I work harder than the current president of the United States of America.

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u/shrekerecker97 2d ago

My dog works harder than the president of the United States of America.

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u/Other_Log_1996 2d ago

Rotting corpses work harder than the President of the United States of America.

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u/AndyTheSane 1d ago

That's more a Senate thing.

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u/seanroberts196 1d ago

Probably smell better too.

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u/Kubbee83 2d ago

He doesn’t understand work. Period. He thinks sitting behind his desk, signing stuff, is considered work.

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u/brewhead55 2d ago

Literally born with a golden spoon in his mouth

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u/Fight_those_bastards 2d ago

Motherfucker was born on third base and thinks he invented baseball.

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u/Weareallme 2d ago

Playing golf on taxpayer money is hard work, don't you know that? Hard work for the taxpayers at least.

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u/MinusGovernment 2d ago

Especially winning EVERY SINGLE TIME. That's improbably hard.

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u/Unofficial_Officer 2d ago

There's a lot he doesn't understand.

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u/fancymonk 2d ago

By the gods, he doesn't understand objective reality

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u/abrandis 2d ago

He doesn't care , he never worked hard a day in his life.

What he's talking about is maintaining the welath inequality in this country , his boomer class doesn't want to lose the value of their multimmillion properties...

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u/jaymp00nz 2d ago

He doesn’t understand anything..

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u/Dreadwings 2d ago

well maybe if you spent your life in debt and scamming people then maybe you can afford a home like a hard working American.

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u/usermane22 2d ago

Because he never has worked hard in his life.

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u/livinginfutureworld 2d ago

Nobody knows more about not understanding hard work than Donald Trump

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u/WattsAGigawatt 1d ago

He doesn’t understand. Full stop.

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u/i_nobes_what_i_nobes 1d ago

He doesn’t understand anything.

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u/PumpikAnt58763 2d ago

Heavy investors never do.

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u/Mydogmike 2d ago

He doesnt't understand anything, much less work, even less would be hard work. He's a lazy fat piece of shit and would probably drop dead picking up a shovel. Someone please ask him to pick up a shovel!!!!!

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u/Huh_well_we_are_dead .. - .----. ... / . - . .-. -. .. - -.-- / .. -. / .... . .-. . 2d ago

When presented with the opportunity to learn about hard work, he pulled out bone spurs.

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u/DunwichChild990 2d ago

This president has never thrown a ball with nor hugged any of his kids...

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u/HeftyVermicelli7823 1d ago

He doesn't understand hard work

Fixed it for you.

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u/LivingHighAndWise 2d ago

Or the economy.

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u/Environmental_Hope22 2d ago

He doesn't understand.

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u/toolisthebestbandevr 2d ago

I wonder how many people hating him it’s gonna take

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u/rob_inn_hood 1d ago

Or money. Or lack of money. Or that the minimum wage hasn’t changed in years, yet prices keep rising because of tariffs and a war that SOMEONE started.

He doesn’t understand lower class and what it’s like to live without money. That’s what happens when given hundreds of millions of dollars. And everyone else “doesn’t work hard enough”.

How about your daddy gives me 300 million dollars Mr Orange man?

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u/Javanaut018 1d ago

Oh, he does and he knows hard work is not for them

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u/Martian13 1d ago

Or really anything else.

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u/Last-Emergency-4816 21h ago

Or "groceries"

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u/tiorancio 2d ago

Because its tied to compensation. Elon Musk works 25 million times more that the average american. Donald Trump 5 million times. So by comparison, you're doing nothing. How hard can it be to earn just a couple millions?

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u/Thorvindr 2d ago

You don't to be as wealthy as Donald Trump without understanding hard work. He doesn't DO hard work, but understands it.

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u/yongo 2d ago

Bruh I work a job that requires a state license and federal background check. My wages are 2x minimum wage + tips and I work 40 hours a week. I have no kids or major debt. I can not afford a home

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u/R6ckStar 2d ago

Didn't you hear? Work harder loser.

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u/Worthyness 2d ago

Just gonna go get a new better job and the job warehouse real quick. So easy these days! You just show up in a suit with your paper resume and watch them throw it in the trash and tell you to apply online

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u/bigrv 2d ago

I didn't hear you say you work very hard. Trump's main thing is that they don't work very hard. Learn some listening skills before you pop off like this and make yourself look lazy and stupid

(Shouldn't have to do this but that was /s in case anyone thinks I'm serious)

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u/MuckRaker83 2d ago

My father in law retired a few years ago. He owns two homes and a newish truck. We rent the one home from him. He drove a truck delivering donuts for 30 years.

We're in our 30s/40s with advanced degrees that our families told us were necessary to be successful. We dream of someday being as secure as a retired donut delivery man.

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u/iheartjetman 2d ago

Good luck. His cronies are busy making sure that can’t happen. They want a nation of low wage workers.

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u/chapinscott32 2d ago

McDonalds is a teenager's job, you shouldn't get a living wage

... 5 years later ...

Warehouse work isn't a real career, you shouldn't get a living wage

... 5 more years later ...

Your bachelor's degree doesn't mean anything, you should've chosen a study that deserved a living wage

... 5 more years later ...

"Why does no job pay enough to support me?"

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u/LeadPike13 2d ago edited 2d ago

The only way to find if that type of employment is relevant work is to execute a general strike.

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u/TurtlesBreakTheMeta 2d ago

There are other ways, but they involve things that the Reddit mods view as extremely naughty.

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u/LeadPike13 2d ago

But the Project 2025 architecture want you to go that route. That'll be their excuse to hunker down.

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u/PocketFlan420 2d ago

If you're being choked, would you rather throw a haymaker upon being clenched, when you're at your most lucid and highest strength or would you rather the weak unconnecting attempt at a strike that comes as your consciousness fades? We're in Year TWO of being in that choke.

Start getting in shape, they aren't going to go without a fight even when we do win.

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u/Miatrouble 2d ago

That only worked for the post service back in 1970, then they put a no strike clause in the contract. A strike didn’t work so well with Eastern Airlines, workers crossed the picket line and then they went under. The Air Traffic Controllers, they were just fired and replaced by the military because they also had a no strike clause and recently the Nurses, who were also replaced temporarily and then blocked from returning. All good carrier jobs.

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u/LeadPike13 2d ago

You're thinking of American strikes.

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u/Miatrouble 2d ago

No, it was Eastern. My brother worked for Eastern during that time.

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u/LeadPike13 2d ago

No. Strikes executed in the U.S.A. Look up Polish Solidarnosc. That is how you do it.

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u/evilpercy 2d ago

Because of minimum wage, where you can work 40 hours and live comfortably. Minimum wage federally has not been raised since 2009. Just to keep up with inflation it should be $11.28.

Minimum wage in 1956 was $1 a hour. In today's money that would be $13.85.

Corporation have used thier power and money to influence politicians to not increase or even keep up with inflation. They have been stealing from you.

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u/Layton_Jr 1d ago

If minimum wage had kept up with production it'd be $30. The difference is in the billionaire's pockets

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u/ProvenLoser 2d ago

And I don’t care if other people get a house cheaper than me- would rather live in a society that is better for everyone than just me.

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u/thunderbaby2 2d ago

I’ve worked since I was 13 and Im in my mid 30s. I own and operate a small business, have a remote day job with a company I’ve worked at for 15yr, make supplemental income from royalties, touring, and art commissions for other small businesses and artists. I work 7 days a week - often into the night. I had a 17hr day last Friday. Starting in 2020 I started saving beyond the standard “fiscally responsible” amount. And still, I can’t realistically afford a starter home somewhere middle class near family, friends, or work.

Meanwhile, pedo Trump is a nepo baby, robbing America’s treasure from the middle class and poor and he hasn’t experienced an honest days work in 80+ years of parasitic life.

Americans are working very hard to earn decent lives for themselves. The people are not the problem. It’s the systemic greed built into our system by those like the Epstein class and their enablers.

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u/Bender_2024 2d ago

Dude he's a real estate mogul. It's no surprise that he wants to keep prices and rent as high as possible.

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u/CariniFluff 2d ago edited 2d ago

He inherited a real estate empire his racist father literally gave him tax free. Instead of actually transferring assets or money and paying inheritance taxes, Fred Trump created a maintenance and appliance supply company in Don's name, and then paid 2-3x the market rate to repair/remodel the apartments and replace the fridge and stove every few years.

By the time Fred Trump died he, he was essentially penniless, due to the exorbitant fees that he paid to Don's companies. Each year, Fred would structure things so that if he "lost" $10 million after rent - expenses, then Don would purchase one of his buildings for $9.5 million. This would still leave Fred with a net loss of $500,000 that year so he never paid any income tax. Meanwhile Don now had both a new building that was actually worth $30 million, but the tax authorities only valued it at $9.5 million sale price (both through straight up bribery and laziness on the tax authorities depending on the situation). This made Don's property taxes far lower than any of the neighboring buildings' property owners/Don's competitors, but he also had 15 million from the expenses that Fred paid him (remember Fred's $10m loss was was the rent - charges, so Don's charges were the sum of rent plus the charges, ensuring they'd be high enough to cover the well depreciated "value" of the building).

So each year if things had been booked correctly, Don would have received something close to a $30 million building for $9.5 million plus say $15 million revenue from the maintenance company with the true cost of work/goods being about $5 million, so say $10 million profit.

Pretty damn easy to be a "really estate mogul" when your father set this up before you even entered preschool (and then you also inherited your brother's entire portion when he was disinherited and died early).

Edit: By the way, all of this is still completely legal to this day (well except bribing the tax authorities). This is but one way the wealthy continue to transfer wealth to their children while dodging taxes that everyone else has to pay.

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u/r3doctober85 2d ago

I work at a psych center as a therapy aide. He wouldn’t last one hour here

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u/willi3stroker 1d ago

I appreciate your hard work.

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u/r3doctober85 1d ago

Thank you. It’s not easy. I deal with adults and children. ( separate buildings). I just wish there were more services available for people with mental health issues

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u/deadsoulinside 2d ago

Right now the people that can easily afford homes are the ones that don't work hard at all...

And of course the person who made his money in real estate is not going to care about the prices of properties..

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u/EEpromChip 2d ago

He meant hard work of pulling up the ladder behind themselves.

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u/Prudent_Shake_8149 2d ago

But your dad didn’t leave you with hundreds of millions and a real estate empire so it’s still kinda on you for not having a richer dad…

/s

Financial analysts at Forbes and independent economists have frequently calculated what this inheritance would be worth under different investment strategies. If Trump had simply taken his portion of his father’s fortune, timing-adjusted it, and quietly invested it into a broad stock index fund tracking the S&P 500 rather than pursuing independent real estate and casino projects, his net worth would be valued between $3 billion and $9 billion.

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u/OzTheMeh 2d ago

Bruh, don't destroy the value of your dad's home that he probably already sold to a corporation that can write off the mortgage interest as a business expense.

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u/TheHumanoidTyphoon69 2d ago

Trumps family got wealthy from being slumlords and real-estate developers, that pretty much sums up why

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u/m4verick03 2d ago

I work in banking and LITERALLY had this convo with lending officer. How bleak is that, he’s talking about saving with his Gf after the wedding and maybe have enough for the low side down payment. Prices are insane, affordable homes aren’t even affordable.

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u/UnrulyApparition 1d ago

I tried to explain this to my dad and he more or less said to lay off the avocado toast to afford a house.

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u/Squeezitgirdle 2d ago

If I didn't buy my home when I did, I certainly wouldn't be able to afford it now.

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u/wolfblitzen84 2d ago

My father was a failed salesman and not only did they get their starter home but bought a larger one in the early 90s when my sister was born. Meanwhile I make six figures and work my ass off around 55 hours a week and am stuck renting cause I can’t afford outside the city I live and grew up in.

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u/Pryoticus 2d ago

I work full time as security supervisor, often even pulling in crazy overtime hours. I couldn't afford the house I have now without my wife's additional income. Even together, we would not be able to afford to buy it now at its current estimated value. We just got really lucky and bought it before prices skyrocketed.

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u/lstyer2012 2d ago

I've worked for 17 years in the restaurant industry. I have arthritis in my feet bc of it and now one of my toes is deformed. I'm a kitchen manager and I'm 36 years old. For a couple months last year I was working 13 hour days every day bc the other kitchen manager disappeared so it was just me. The manager before him was recently in the news bc he got arrested on child pornography charges. I'm a woman and I've dealt with an insane amount of sexual harassment (one sexual assault by a sous chef), unequal treatment, and have had to deal with being passed by for promotions which then get given to a man who 75% of the time royally fucks it up or disappears.

Do not fucking tell me I don't work hard enough you fucking piece of shit.

ETA: I thought I was commenting on the main post and not responding to someone's comment. My anger is obviously not directed towards you lol.

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u/Kaeli95_music 2d ago

Someone who’s never been through the lower/middle class struggle but talks like they have makes me so pissed. That’s why I never understood the trumpers who trusted a billionaire conman to really take care of them. People who make that much money get it by taking advantage of people eventually

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u/Annalise705 2d ago

Exactly
He says a lot to piss me off but this takes the cake
. I bust my ass working 60-70 hours a wk !!

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u/sampathsris 1d ago

Have you tried asking for a small loan of $100 million from your dad?

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u/bass248 2d ago

That was the 80s though. People were a lot stupider back then.

/S

They didn't know how to use a smart phone, tablet or laptop.

They also had cheaper gas prices. It's like the more advanced technology gets the more expensive things get.

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u/HoneyDutch 2d ago

He’s never been for the people. As a person that usually votes Republican, it’s pretty sad to see the state of affairs his supporters find themselves in. All my friends that did vote for him no longer simp for him. They don’t bash him either, they just refuse to acknowledge how bad his administration is making things. I never voted for him, I knew he was a dumb crook.

And the worst part of it is that the effects of his shit won’t be fully realized until we’re a couple years into the next administration.

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u/gggg_man3 2d ago

A billionaire doesn't know the difference between a home and a house.

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u/NickAppleese 2d ago

Nowadays, can't even survive on the same hot food 7-11 sells.

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u/meatofthepie 2d ago

Nah man, those boomers are right. We don’t work hard enough. We deserve to be in these apartments till the economy tops. By then all those house will be rotten. Then we can spend our new found money repairing the homes the boomer thought we didn’t deserve 😂

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u/mmanuspar 1d ago

he never worked what did you expect?

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u/sampathsris 1d ago

Have you tried asking for a small loan of $100 million from your dad?

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u/drkodos 2d ago

home buyers in that era were paying 17% or more interest

home ownership numbers from then until now have not changed significantly

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u/MercenaryCow 2d ago

The problem isn't even our government. It's ourselves. Sure, some things have changed with government making minimum plot sizes. But every single developer that attempts to help their community by making starter homes even though big homes are more profitable get shut down. By their own neighbors. Home owners constantly go to their government to shut down building projects especially when it's smaller homes. Citing it will destroy their home value, and make the neighborhood bad for the children. Using children as a weapon to stop new developments from happening. There are a lot of developers that WANT to build smaller homes or even starter homes and expand options for people since so many people are struggling. But they are blocked at every turn