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So just for argument's sake, would you still feel secure at that pay level if you had a family with at least one child and needed your own place without roommates? Or rather, would you start a family at your current pay level?

Well you're obviously much smarter with your money than most Americans, but do you feel secure at that income level and is that disposable income amount with or without paid overtime?

That goes without saying. I don't think you and I disagree on a fundamental level, we are just kind of sitting on opposite sides of the table for argument's sake

That's the theory.

I think we're agreeing here. The tax breaks only really help the people who don't need any help.

I don't know man, the larger the user base the more likely you are to get caught if you ask me because theoretically more of your wife's friends/acquaintances would use it and potentially get matched to you. Though that whole out of town thing is true.

Yea I hadn't looked at the chart in a while, so you were closer to the 50% bracket. Still more than you get taxed today but not by that much (because of marginal tax rates).

I do both at the same time. Pound her in the pooper and yank her head back by her hair and plant one on her forehead

Well I was assuming you were close to the ~450k (is that right? maybe that was closer to the 50% bracket and 70% was 1 million or so in today's dollars). Whether or not the poor are better off now than were in 1959 is debatable. In some ways yes they are, and in other ways no they are not...

Arslan is a cringeworthy show. How do you guys watch it? Awful animation, terrible dialogue, lackluster story.

How exactly do you "encourage" a company to pay its employees more when they are having record years? You let collective bargaining do the talking or you "artificially inflate" the minimum wage if it's a company that employs large amounts of minimum wage workers. What exactly do you mean by...

So I understand not wanting to pay a bunch of money in taxes, it doesn't seem fair to have to give up money you've earned to subsidize the less fortunate. But before Nixon started cutting taxes for the wealthy and the trend continued to the point it's at now people in your income bracket were...

Well I can see your point but I would argue that the economy is not growing, wealth is growing for a certain class of people who aren't pumping much of it back into the economy while the lower classes earn less and less each year due to stagnant wages and diminishing buying power. The market...

The economy hasn't been growing since the 2008 downturn, it's been doing what Mist suggests. Becoming top heavy. Only the wealthy are earning money and living better right now. The working class is worse off every year because wages have stagnated while inflation keeps moving along...

Don't know if you can trust these stats but according tothis sitethere are 54 million singles in the U.S. and 49 million have tried online dating. I have no idea how they could possibly pull that stat because I don't recall ever giving a social security number when signing up for any of those...

Looks like Tinder has about 50 million users worldwide and Match.com has about 23 million. OKCupid has about 12. So yea, tinder is definitely the biggest by a wide margin. Match is the second biggest.

We already do this. We're asking for employers to start pitching in appropriately instead of paying and treating low skill job roles as indentured servants. We're asking employers to stop fucking over us as tax payers because they want to maximize profits. We're saying "FUCK YOU WALTON...

I wonder what the user base sizes are for these. I'd imagine Tinder is fairly large but I'd be surprised if it was larger than OKCupid or Match.

Not really because all of them (even eHarmony) have a "tinder" style swipe feature. They can all be used exactly the same way (and pretty much are).

Is there a fast food union? Anyway, yes that certainly can and does happen, but humans kind of suck man. Before unions and collective bargaining were a real, protected thing it was the companies that were holding the workers hostage. Literally... going back to Carnegie again his workers tried...

I always forget about Moe's Monday. I went to Taco Bell today when I should have gone to Moe's... Feels bad too.

20 hour days at no extra pay? Sounds like you got lucky to me because that isn't very smart. Coulda used those 12 extra hours to better your situation in much more productive ways. I can't think of anything more hit or miss than "Well I'll just work more hours to prove I'm the best". In my...

No, I don't want a standard of living for everyone. I want a livable wage for folks who work and make an effort so that our goddamn economy doesn't keep collapsing every 7 years. And yes I will gladly pay for that, we already do. Less people on social programs that we already currently pay for...

He didn't see it that way because he was blinded by bullshit. Which apparently so are you. Ask me to work 16 hours a day for you just so I can eat? Fuck yourself. That's what intelligent people say because they know they are being taken advantage of. And some of those same intelligent people...

I won't argue that there are people who just want to take. They exist. They always have. They did in your grandfather's generation too. But let's not pretend that everyone who isn't as successful as we are is just fucking lazy. Working 16 hours a day and "being happy" even though you never...

Not everyone is cut out for career work. These are exactly what they are meant to be... jobs. And if you have a job, and perform it, you should be able to live without needing government assistance. Some people can't move, they have no means to do so. It's much easier said than done. I agree...

Ya know you can be hyperbolic about this all you want but there are a TON of moronic parents out there who push their kids so hard to get a college education that they essentially force them into crippling debt. A lot of people have lost sight of the fact that not every kid is cut out for higher...

Guys, there have always been people who felt entitled to more than they were. There were always people who took advantage of whatever system it was they were a part of. There were always lazy people who are beyond help. And there always will be. And there will always be hard working people who...

And this is why Libertarian politicians want to do away with collective bargaining and dissolve unions.

That is true. The working class drives the economy, not the .01%ers. There are only so many cars/dinners/toilet paper you need to buy as a human being and being a multi millionaire doesn't change that fact.

What makes you say this? When you add up all the "burger flippers" making "more than they are worth" it probably comes out pretty close. I don't really follow this whole more than you're worth idea. Look at what happens when you pay people the current minimum wage... they are forced into...

This show was starting to lose me because it felt like it was going off the rails way too fast. The twist at the end of this week's episode has me interested again. I just hope it doesn't turn into some LOST levels of retardation down the line.

They definitely do notice the same patterns. I talk to women about this all the time. It's not very different at all. For instance, a lot of women like to lie about their weight. Men don't do that so much, instead they lie about their height. Women put up a front about how laid back they are...

Weren't you the guy who used to come into this thread every once in a while and pretend like anyone who used a dating site was a worthless cretin who couldn't get dates "the real way"?

Eh... Limbo scrolls? Cool, they'll never drop because Gaz is full of shit 63 packs of Eternity Splinter and double chances for 10 drop packs? Double 0% is still 0% Hero tokens dropping? How many people have found hero tokens in Cosmic MM? 3? Everything else seems decent and hopefully the...

People actually refactor code that doesn't need functionality or versioning changes? What a colossal waste of time. Does the business you work for not have any real work that needs to be done?

If a business can't afford to pay its employees a livable wage that business probably isn't serving an important, or very needed function. Or it's run like shit.

What is this RP insinuation? We have been dating for 6 weeks, long enough that a vague "Something came up" is not a good enough reason to cancel a date. I am too old to have to deal with BS games like that. She even admitted she was trying to see how I would react. It's ridiculous. There is...

Sounds like the only thing stopping you from leaving is the uncertainty regarding your son. As in, if you don't get full custody you're afraid he'll be neglected at the least during the time she has him. And I have no advice for that.

Was it you a while back who was talking about your wife battling depression? Sucks man.