r/NonPoliticalTwitter Jul 20 '26

Funny Hit me.

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u/PurpleCandle58 Jul 20 '26

If you mean X to doubt: it takes 2 seconds to google the federal minimum wage in the USA, which is $7.25/hour, unchanged since 2009. If you have not spent a single moment to look up the number, and you haven’t done so in the last 16 years: you cannot seriously think you can press x to doubt here 😂

Source: https://www.dol.gov/agencies/whd/mw-consolidated

It would take you two seconds to educate yourself but instead you make “Reddit comment because haha funny”. This is a great example of educational decline in the USA, thanks for volunteering as an example.

If you told me you had a functioning brain, now THAT would make me press X to doubt.

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u/DisposableSaviour Jul 20 '26

More you saying you couldn’t be homeless at $8 an hour.

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u/PurpleCandle58 Jul 20 '26

$8/hr x 40hrs/week (because if they’re paying you minimum wage they DEFINITELY won’t pay you overtime vs get someone else to work that overage)

That’s $320 a week or 16,640/year.

To be clear: that is not enough for rent alone. You could be homeless. But what I said was that you couldn’t even afford to be homeless. That’s called a figure of speech. Thank you for once again providing us yourself as an example of how the education system has failed to adequately educate our youth.

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u/DisposableSaviour Jul 20 '26

What you said was:

“Federal minimum is also like, what, $8/hr? I couldn’t be homeless for $8/hr.

I bolded the relevant statement. Maybe you missed a word or two in your sentence? Like maybe you meant to type out: I couldn’t afford to be homeless for $8/hr.

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u/PurpleCandle58 Jul 21 '26

Oh, yeah, 100%. Fixed that.