This meme about boomers being worth $1.5M on average. If the home is $1.2M, and $300 in investments, and you're a really good trader, you'll make 10% ($30k). After income tax takes 40%, $18k will just cover your property taxes. You're worth $1.5M, but you're effectively broke.
@joeroganhq In Liberal Canada, you are free to hold any opinion you want, so long as you only disseminate positions approved by the Liberal Party of Canada.
@MAGAMAHACindy Cannot believe how much less I want to eat as a senior. That old Florida joke about 5 pm senior dinner specials is beginning to make a lot more sense to me. Paying less for a smaller portion in the early evening? Sign me up!
@electionsjoe Three weeks ago, it was "45,000" died. Then a week later, it was "250,000". One more week, and it's "500,000". And now, "1,000,000". By Labor Day, over ONE BILLION PEOPLE will have died due to Elon Musk, making him the greatest mass murderer ever. Ya, right.
@DarrigoMelanie Yes. Nothing points out more how absolutely safe that young woman is. Not a single one of those men is going to lay a finger on her. Now, reverse the colors in the photo, and try to say the same thing.
@PhilMccoxwell@krassenstein It's ironic, in that Quebec is home to corruption so bad that numerous gov't inquiries have been called. Some had to be stopped after reporters and witnesses were killed. The biggest bribery scandal in Canada involved SNC-Lavalin, a Quebec firm.
@AntiWokeMemes The plastic milk crates made excellent storage for vinyl record albums, and comic books. Friend's bed was a double stack of milk crates, filled with comics, with a mattress on top.
@bradlena1@jimcsek This is also an "effect", as you define one. The root cause was the idiotic anti-carbon policies of the Liberals. Those policies drove out investment, reduced our exports by billions each year, and made every one in Canada poorer. Hard to think of worse policy or leadership.
@brivael I've said for years that since the late 50s, when CA was fully settled, our problem was there was no more 'frontier' for people to escape the claws of society. Some used drugs as a new frontier; others became small minded. Elon's opening minds without drugs.
@GilmanHill NIMBY now covers half the West. Musk knows the giant computers to run AI are cheaper with the zero energy and cooling costs in space, and no left wing gov't to block him. To use an 1850 analogy, Musk owns the railroad to space. Impossible to value right now, but it'll be more.
@Brian_stone_9 I worked for a number of restaurants in Toronto in the 70s and 80s. At every single one, any server who complained directly to a customer about a tip would be terminated. I expected 10% as a minimum, hoped for 15%, happy with anything more. This 30-40% stuff is ridiculous.
@CelticAshes I believe some Canadian deputy minister offered a solution a few years ago: "MAiD is available for people who are too poor to live with dignity." Cake will be optional.
@plastikspork@Heccles94 When I was a kid, comics showed Scrooge McDuck diving into one of his "money bins", filled to the rafters with golden coins and bills. I think these loonies think Musk has a few, too.