Comment on Is 33 cents a small amount of money?

ragebutt@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

• OccultIconoclast@reddthat.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  Should print out a poster infographic explaining progressive taxation and put it up on the wall in the break room

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  • kameecoding@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    Yeah I am pretty sure they wouldn’t understand this either

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  • Feathercrown@lemmy.world ⁨21⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    This infographic is kinda bad and would not convince someone who doesn’t know how it works at all

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  • AA5B@lemmy.world ⁨23⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    But you have to keep it going to highlight how much wealthier people pay (although that’s tougher since their income is not “income”). Maybe throw in a few examples of the wealthiest Americans and wha recent age they pay, to not only clarify it, but retarget their anger where it belongs

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  • jj4211@lemmy.world ⁨18⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Would have to be mandated by workplace regulations, no company is going to voluntarily educate their employees that more money has no downside.

    I’ll also say this doesn’t help, it strangely avoids the actual numbers. It should state explicitly that his total taxes would be $1,600+$4,266+$2,827=$8692, and not $13200. Needs to include the scenarios specific results and contrasted with what the viewer would have assumed otherwise.

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• thermal_shock@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  Seen the same bullshit when I worked retail. Nothing will convince them.

  It’s easier to trick someone that it is to convince them they’re wrong.

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  • prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    I wonder how different the planet would be if boomers had just been taught, from an early age, that it’s OK to be wrong.

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    • thermal_shock@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      I remember my mom saying something like “don’t believe what you see on tv and only half of what you read.” Yet here we are.

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      • prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

        Yeah, I remember my parents teaching me a whole lot of shit that Fox News would call “woke” today.

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      • IDKWhatUsernametoPutHereLolol@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨20⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        My mom told me “these white people will never see you as an American”

        Now she’s blaming democrats for “Migrant crisis”

        🤦‍♂️

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• Korhaka@sopuli.xyz ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  We covered how taxes are calculated at school, it isn’t very complicated. Yet SO MANY people insist they end up getting paid more it made me question myself for a while.

  Although sometimes the removal of certain benefits does mean people can be worse off for £1 extra. Which if anything is just a sign that the benefits were poorly thought out and should taper off instead of being a hard limit.

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  • JackbyDev@programming.dev ⁨20⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    There is probably sticker shock involved. Someone who gets a raise will see a new amount of taxes witheld and may be upset. It could even be they didn’t know what the amount taken out before taxes was.

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• AlligatorBlizzard@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  The only way that’s a problem is if you’re on certain government benefits, if you make just a little bit too much there’s a hard cutoff for many benefits so you may end up losing more than you made in OT. But if your staff is facing this dilemma, they need to be paid more.

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  • theangryseal@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    Pay them more? So they can lose their benefits? Are you crazy?

    I’m kidding, of course. I know that what you mean is, “pay them so that they can afford to live without requiring benefits.”

    You get into some of the poorer places in the country though, that truly would be nearly impossible for most businesses. There are some places in West Virginia that would immediately have no access to gasoline, groceries, etc.

    It is crazy to think that Bobby McBusinessman gets to ride around in a giant RV all summer because the government pays his employees. They don’t see it that way though, as they collect their HUD payments and accept food stamps while all of their employees receive food stamps and medical benefits.

    All while the rest of the community lives on nothing and experiences very little joy in this life.

    What do I know though? I’m just a pissed off hillbilly who helped make someone who isn’t me very rich.

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• hansolo@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  Short of doing a demo with rolls of change or MnMs or something, asking people to conceptualize math that is not just simple addition is often asking too much. Especially when people’s financial literacy is learned at home from people who retired in 1996.

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  • thermal_shock@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    Well look where we are, trump loves the uneducated, they got his thieving rapist ass elected.

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• KillingTimeItself@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨14⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  every day, my theory that people are just willfully retarded gets proven more and more correct. Even with the tools at the disposal of the modern internet savvy person, nobody tries ANYTHING to verify ANYTHING.

  It’s actually so fucking depressing and i think humanity is joever at this point. I’m not sure how you recover from this point effectively.

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  • ragebutt@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨12⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    I mean in defense of these staff: many of them were not amazingly well educated and were pulling 80-96 hour weeks pretty regularly to earn a livable wage. When were they supposed to do this research?

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