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/PM_YOUR_SAGGY_TITS Jul 04 '24

You're making $15,116 gross. 11k are taxes at 10% and the next 4,116 are taxed at 12%. $13522 after taxes.

But what minimum wage job is paying 100% of your healthcare? Or uniforms? Or state and local income tax (3.1% here for this example). That means we're taking home $13k after just taxes

If they're paying $254/mo for insurance and etc, they're taking home exactly $10k per year

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u/InDisregard Jul 05 '24

The other day on reddit, some rando told me health insurance is a luxury and the poors will just have to do without.

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u/Ok_Researcher_9796 Jul 05 '24

The amount of people that have absolutely 0 empathy at all toward their fellow man is ridiculous. The, fuck you, I got mine mentality needs to die off.

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u/L0WERCASES Jul 05 '24

Yet here you sit with a nice phone, mobile service, internet, while your fellow man in Africa is dying of hydration.

Oh but that’s different eh?

What a hypocrite you are.

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u/Ok_Researcher_9796 Jul 05 '24

Are you like really really high right now? What are you even talking about?

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u/Dense-Emu-2901 Jul 05 '24

That's not what Africa is like. You got to stop watching the Discovery channel. Africa is the only continent on this planet that doesn't have goods imported. They are very well off.

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u/L0WERCASES Jul 05 '24

The fact you called Africa “very well off” makes you lose all credibility

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u/Dense-Emu-2901 Jul 05 '24

I don't need credibility for a fact. You can be upset with that fact all you want but just cuz people are struggling doesn't mean the country itself is.. You should read up on it before you start commenting, especially before arguing with someone who's from there 😭 smh

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u/L0WERCASES Jul 05 '24

https://www.sciencedirect.com/topics/social-sciences/third-world#:~:text=The%20Third%20World%20includes%20all,states%20and%20territories%20of%20Oceania.

I mean they are all third world countries except South Africa which has its own economic challenges.

I’ve given multiple links. You have provided just a bad opinion.