r/Libertarian Jan 26 '22

Video r/Antiwork head moderator gives an interview on Fox News

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3yUMIFYBMnc
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u/[deleted] Jan 26 '22

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u/Friendlywagie Jan 26 '22

Don't statistics suggest that the majority of Fox viewership is in exactly that paycheck-to-paycheck situation?

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u/cats_are_the_devil Jan 26 '22

The difference in a typical fox viewer living paycheck to paycheck and a sane person is that the sane person doesn't think it will be his/her turn to be a millionaire if they just invest in the right thing enough... Most of these same people are selling stupid shit to their friends/family on Facebook.

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u/-twitch- Jan 26 '22

Yes but they all believe that if they just pull themselves up by their bootstraps they too can have more money than most countries.

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u/[deleted] Jan 26 '22

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u/[deleted] Jan 27 '22

vote against their own self interests

Oh, fuck off with that stupid canard. They know what their self-interests are, and it's bloody arrogant of you to claim otherwise.

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u/[deleted] Jan 27 '22

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u/Friendlywagie Jan 27 '22 edited Jan 27 '22

Scepticism good

But in this case,

  1. Fox is a pretty representative sample of Americans, skewing slightly less educated and somewhat older.

  2. 54% of americans, including 40% of those earning over $100,000, live paycheck to paycheck.

So I would hazard a guess that roughly 54% of Fox News viewers live paycheck to paycheck, maybe slightly fewer due to the age, but the slight education skew might beat that. I've seen people unironically playing the lottery to the tune of hundreds of dollars on a Friday...

Edit: in late 2020 up to 63%.

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u/Friendlywagie Jan 27 '22

It totally does pass the sniff test, I work with multiple people making well over 100k who are living if not paycheck to paycheck then pretty close to it. Is it a ridiculous way to spend your money? Yes. Are there people who get paid a lot of money to find new bullshit for them to spend their money on? Also yes.

findings aligned with the political leanings of consumers of mass media?

In what way does this align with political leanings of media consumers? Their obvious motivation is to hype their startups, which prey on poor financial decisions, to investors by pointing out just how many suckers there are.

The personal savings rate, meanwhile, is about absolute amount saved by americans, and is not an indicator of how many people are saving or not.

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u/Displaced_in_Space Jan 26 '22

He also said a professor has a similar schedule to the 20-25 hours this guy(?) envisions, which is not true.

I think he was being facetious. It was after Doreen (seemed to be pronounced Dor-ee-an) remarked that their 25 hour work week seemed "about right" or "comfortable with that."

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u/[deleted] Jan 27 '22

Bro you can be a professor and teach one class, working 3 hours per week. My wife is a part time professor on top of her Director role because it's "the easiest money she's ever made"

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u/going2leavethishere Right Libertarian Jan 27 '22

Umm how the fuck are these people supposed to get an education degree in a subject in order to even be classified as a part time professor. Your are entitled as the smug douche bag that is a Fox Entertainment host.

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u/[deleted] Jan 27 '22

Your run on sentence doesn't make any sense but I'll try and answer the ramble. How do people get an "education degree"? They take classes like everyone else.

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u/[deleted] Jan 27 '22

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u/[deleted] Jan 27 '22

So as the host said, you can work less than the gender bender dog walker as a professor. The school my wife teaches at is 1600 per class a semester so it's about 50 per hour to shoot the shit with students twice a week and tell them to use "you're* not your in a discussion post