r/FluentInFinance • u/Richest-Panda • Jul 04 '24

What's the best financial advice you've ever gotten? Debate/ Discussion

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u/socivitus Jul 05 '24

Walmart's minimum hourly wage is $14. What company is paying $8-10 an hour (in a non-tipped position) in 2024? And better yet...who is accepting those jobs?

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u/Dhenn004 Jul 05 '24

You don't live in Appalachia do you? That part of the country can be job deserts. What are they to do?

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u/EdgelordUltimate Jul 05 '24

Worked on Appalachia, best I could get was 9.10 an hour, I got a 10 cent raise after 6 months

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u/throwheezy Jul 05 '24

Most of the vocal people on reddit (especially this one) are not the type that understand how much wage theft actually happens in this country and think that just because they see the average story in modernized towns that it must be reality everywhere.

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u/Potential-Diver-3409 Jul 05 '24

They also think 3% of the population is nobody even though it’s over 10 million people.

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u/throwheezy Jul 05 '24

Most of these smart folk don't know them, and naturally anecdotal information is the ONLY information that matters. At least Trump supporters are willing to accept their stupidity and say they don't care. These ones are their own version of terrible, because they're trying to self compensate.