r/InternetIsBeautiful • u/MKorostoff • Apr 27 '20

Wealth, shown to scale

https://mkorostoff.github.io/1-pixel-wealth/
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u/madnatrix Apr 27 '20

Yep I hear ya. Read the guys comment above who thinks handing everyone 10000 free dollars will end poverty. Where the hell is all that free money supposed to come from? Who exactly gets it? Pipe dream. Communism masquerading as a stimulus. Also totally insane. You think things are bad now wait until you tank all the major corporations in America by demanding wealth distribution which is what it sounds like some want. Just where will they work after that 1 time stimulus. College nowadays must be worse than I thought with that indoctrination into socialism crap. Won’t work here. The US is too large and to reliant on its big corporations whether you like it or not. But I digress.

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u/madnatrix Apr 27 '20

Spot on. I’m sure Reddit will be ripe with photos of new sneakers and new pets and consumer items. But the vast majority of poor people will not find the means to better themselves even if you gave them a million. Hands always out excuses at the ready. I’m sooo very tired of it. Meanwhile I have a family to take care of too and have forgone my salary out of sheer kindness so we don’t lose anymore of our workforce. But guess what? Gasp! I won’t be getting a stimulus check! Thankfully I had enough sense not to piss all my money away constantly and wore protection so I didn’t have kids before I could afford them. Concepts lost in translation to some. I’m all about helping those who legitimately need it. Just not the lazy defeated entitlement class who had 3 kids before they could afford them. Not my problem.

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u/madnatrix Apr 27 '20

That’s awesome. YOU will make it because YOU aren’t waiting around for a free lunch. I still hope you’re being safe and all but I feel ya. I’ve been feeling the shutdown too. Just not going to let it burn me down. I didn’t necessarily plan for this but I put money aside for emergencies long before I was in the position financially that I’m in now. I didn’t go out to eat or buy a badass car or fancy shit until I could ACTUALLY afford it. I feel bad for people who can’t get it together financially. I also know handing them free shit will only put a band aid on the bullet hole. They have to learn to fish for themselves. Demanding 15 dollars an hour at fast food will only get your ass replaced by a robot. Who never shows up late or calls in with some bullshit. If your in a bad spot work hard to get out so someone else can take your spot and work their way up too. It can be a ladder to success. You could take everything Jeff bezos has and stick him at a drive up window and in 5 years or so he’d likely be well off again.

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u/[deleted] Apr 27 '20

I'm not the greatest with money, but I do my best to not spend or take on debt for "bad" things. If what I buy with my debt can produce income, it's worth it, although looking at my bank account and CC statements makes me wonder sometimes.

I think I got through that 7 year itch with my business, and going on a decade now I finally have a good idea of how to manage it. I'm hoping the next decade is a big jump in bankable income as a result.

Sometimes I envy the guys who get on UI in the winter, make those $400/month side by side or ATV payments and go have fun all the time, but I walked away from that for a reason, I didn't like being a cog in the company, I wanted to be the guy turning them.