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Date: October 22nd, 2025 12:31 AM Author: Wild senate rigor (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5788548&forum_id=2Vannesa#49365519) |
Date: October 22nd, 2025 12:37 AM Author: mind-boggling sapphire rigpig temple US is so unequal ppl who are in upper professional class have no idea how furked pathetic and retarded bottom 50% is (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5788548&forum_id=2Vannesa#49365531) |
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Date: October 22nd, 2025 1:21 AM Author: claret kitchen I remain completely baffled as to how the covid checks made a material difference in people’s lives and had huge effects on the economy. It was like $3,000 over the course of a year. Even if you’re only making $40,000, that shouldn’t move the needle for you *that* much. But people went balling out of control, taking trips to Florida, entering into leases of luxury apartments, buying ETH, etc. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5788548&forum_id=2Vannesa#49365582) |
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Date: October 22nd, 2025 1:42 AM Author: Excitant frisky hunting ground everyone had ppp loans (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5788548&forum_id=2Vannesa#49365592) |
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Date: October 22nd, 2025 11:35 AM Author: high-end beady-eyed kitty cat cruise ship What a scam that was. Direct transfer from the wagies to "business" people. fucking fraud country. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5788548&forum_id=2Vannesa#49366034) |
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Date: October 22nd, 2025 1:49 AM Author: Bespoke sadistic lodge stock car I have prole co-workers who were in tears and high-fiving when the covid checks arrived. I told one guy that it really wasn't all that much and he looked at me like I was crazy. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5788548&forum_id=2Vannesa#49365597) |
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Date: October 22nd, 2025 11:18 AM Author: tan church (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5788548&forum_id=2Vannesa#49366019) |
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Date: October 22nd, 2025 7:24 AM Author: Ruddy ticket booth give every prole $3000 and prices go up on everything by 70% (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5788548&forum_id=2Vannesa#49365698) |
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Date: October 22nd, 2025 7:25 AM Author: seedy lascivious market Supposedly in 2024 poors and muds were citing "Donald Trump checks" as a reason to vote for him. It made that big of a difference to them LJL (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5788548&forum_id=2Vannesa#49365699) |
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Date: October 22nd, 2025 8:30 AM Author: Azure volcanic crater Weird how this didn’t work at all in 2020. Almost like they were just looking for any justification to vote Trump after the Dems decided to nominate the barely re-animated corpse of Joe Biden after he’d been dead for 18 months. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5788548&forum_id=2Vannesa#49365780) |
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Date: October 22nd, 2025 10:55 AM Author: sticky library I think this is it (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5788548&forum_id=2Vannesa#49365988) |
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Date: October 22nd, 2025 7:27 AM Author: mind-boggling sapphire rigpig temple they also copped UE benefits for like 3 years, niggas were just living off this shit not having to work (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5788548&forum_id=2Vannesa#49365703) |
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Date: October 22nd, 2025 7:28 AM Author: Cerise Depressive If you’re barely making enough to cover bills, an extra 3k sounds nice. Especially when you have no savings. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5788548&forum_id=2Vannesa#49365704) |
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Date: October 22nd, 2025 11:08 AM Author: Soul-stirring ape *goes to vegas* (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5788548&forum_id=2Vannesa#49366008) |
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Date: October 22nd, 2025 8:33 AM Author: Domesticated Judgmental Black Woman They got $3k checks and $30k PPP loans they never paid back. The $30k was why they were ballin. Also, the self employed lawyer bros with firms whose only employee was the founders wife got more like $240k in PPP checks. My music teacher wife with an s-corp got $60k. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5788548&forum_id=2Vannesa#49365782) |
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Date: October 22nd, 2025 8:43 AM Author: Sienna vibrant meetinghouse community account In 2023, 62 year old Dani Walker, living in Seattle, WA plead guilty to stealing nearly $500,000 from the program to, among other things, purchase a Jaguar coup with a faux diamond license plate cover, spent $34,000 on a luxury vacation to New York – including a Louis Vuitton shopping spree -; and invested unsuccessfully in cryptocurrency. After being approached by the FBI, Walker continued her fraudulent scheme and continued to apply for PPP loans based on non existent employees.
https://www.justice.gov/usao-wdwa/pr/seattle-woman-sentenced-intermittent-custody-defrauding-covid-assistance-program |
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Date: October 22nd, 2025 8:50 AM Author: Azure volcanic crater lol she was sentenced to a year of house arrest. If you got her to answer honestly I am sure she would tell you she’d do it all again if she had the chance.
https://www.justice.gov/usao-wdwa/pr/seattle-woman-sentenced-intermittent-custody-defrauding-covid-assistance-program |
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Date: October 23rd, 2025 6:56 PM Author: Wild senate rigor I didn't get a covid check. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5788548&forum_id=2Vannesa#49369564) |
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Date: October 22nd, 2025 7:25 AM Author: seedy lascivious market XO flame aside, your average prole is only worth about $1 million USD and most of it is tied up in retirement accounts (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5788548&forum_id=2Vannesa#49365700) |
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Date: October 22nd, 2025 7:45 AM Author: White Selfie Those are 2020 numbers. I am the average prole. Net worth is about $2m in October 2025. As you say, a lot of it is tied up in retirement accounts, home equity, maybe 10% is actually liquid. 4 kids and a mortgage due on the first of the month. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5788548&forum_id=2Vannesa#49365726) |
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Date: October 22nd, 2025 7:48 AM Author: seedy lascivious market That's true, net worth indicators are always lagging survey data and the stock market has gone up since then. Still, it's directionally correct. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5788548&forum_id=2Vannesa#49365732) |
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Date: October 22nd, 2025 8:24 AM Author: Sienna vibrant meetinghouse community account Flame? proles aren’t worth a million dollars and most of them don’t even have retirement accounts. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5788548&forum_id=2Vannesa#49365772) |
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Date: October 22nd, 2025 8:27 AM Author: autistic trailer park roast beef Why is it so easy to run flame on you? Lmao. So touchy about your NW (and NW) (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5788548&forum_id=2Vannesa#49365776) |
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Date: October 22nd, 2025 8:29 AM Author: Sienna vibrant meetinghouse community account Yeah ok (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5788548&forum_id=2Vannesa#49365779) |
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Date: October 22nd, 2025 8:34 AM Author: diverse slap-happy mad-dog skullcap trump supporter imo proles get auto-enrolled in the company 401k then have to pay an early penalty to take it out after they get fired a month later. oops! (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5788548&forum_id=2Vannesa#49365783) |
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Date: October 22nd, 2025 8:37 AM Author: Learning disabled hissy fit voyeur medical bills for a whole range of illnesses late in life are what causes the most pain, suffering, and ultimate personal bankruptcy (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5788548&forum_id=2Vannesa#49365787) |
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Date: October 22nd, 2025 11:10 AM Author: Domesticated Judgmental Black Woman Only about 19% of US households are worth over a million and that’s including home equity. Most of the people with houses will never pay them off…. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5788548&forum_id=2Vannesa#49366011) |
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Date: October 22nd, 2025 11:15 AM Author: slippery hall gaping that’s only what they report though. if you were to include the value of the average prole’s trucks, atvs, boats, home entertainment systems, guns, labubus, etc., even at massive discounts to market value, that number would go up to 75-80%. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5788548&forum_id=2Vannesa#49366017) |
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Date: October 24th, 2025 12:13 AM Author: slate telephone Wut? The median household net worth in the U.S. is around $100k. For non-homeowners, it is about $10k. Most true proles have a negative net worth with no retirement accounts, no home equity, and an $80k loan for an F-150 plus about $10k-$20k more on various credit cards. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5788548&forum_id=2Vannesa#49370356) |
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Date: October 22nd, 2025 8:36 AM Author: vigorous lemon dysfunction Most Americans are worth a couple million but it’s usually tied up in a house so they only have $500k or so liquid (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5788548&forum_id=2Vannesa#49365786) |
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Date: October 22nd, 2025 8:47 AM Author: charismatic swollen clown pit That's why I feel like I can walk away from my shitty job. I have low 2 million net worth, but if you take away the 401k and house, it's ~1.8 with crypto being down (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5788548&forum_id=2Vannesa#49365807) |
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Date: October 23rd, 2025 1:08 PM Author: Zippy Drab Set Windowlicker Approximately 12% to 18% of U.S. households had a net worth of over $1 million as of 2022 and 2023 data. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5788548&forum_id=2Vannesa#49368661) |
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Date: October 22nd, 2025 8:44 AM Author: Azure volcanic crater The standard edgelord Reagan/Bush era GOP take was that our poors were way too rich and spoiled and entitled. And I don’t mean welfare queen schtick I mean that in private they would tell you that the vast majority of the worlds underclass lived on the brink of starvation and had no opportunity to better themselves, but in the U.S. our poors lived better than all but the top 5-10% in most other countries, and they would cite the per capita GDP stats comparing to Europe (which got even more drastic since) and say things like “how many people below the poverty line in the U.S. have a car? Or eat out once a week? Or blast their A/C all summer and their heat all winter?” And “in what other countries do they give their poor special privileges to access higher education? We bend over backward to make sure we do everything we can to help any person who is poor but shows a glimmer of talent and capability and makes a minimal effort to organize their presentation of those talents to a university.” And if you really got them going they’d eventually build to “the New Deal was a mistake” and “maybe we should engineer another dust bowl” and the lawyer nerd versions would start ranting about the Lochner court. And those Reaganite edgelords were full of shit and ultimately half hearted in making these arguments as another attempt to justify tax cuts, but they had a point. 90% of the pity we show to poor people in the U.S. is just middle class people enjoying the implication about their relative status and indulging their own class insecurity and envy of the wealthy. I’d much rather be poor in the U.S. than anywhere other than about 3 countries in Europe. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5788548&forum_id=2Vannesa#49365798) |
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Date: October 22nd, 2025 10:33 AM Author: autistic trailer park roast beef Idk if this is true anymore, redditors seemed overwhelmed just trying to support themselves. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5788548&forum_id=2Vannesa#49365957) |
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Date: October 23rd, 2025 12:51 PM Author: Azure volcanic crater lol redditors eat out at least 50% of their meals and spend their days playing video games and jerking to anime. Not exactly Grapes of Wrath. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5788548&forum_id=2Vannesa#49368602) |
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Date: October 23rd, 2025 1:25 PM Author: autistic trailer park roast beef Yeah I scratch my head when people blame “restaurant portions” for obesity….. but yeah it’d be interesting to see if these idiots are making 50k and spending 51k/yr when High Losers make $390k and spend like 37k. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5788548&forum_id=2Vannesa#49368714) |
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Date: October 22nd, 2025 11:06 AM Author: slippery hall gaping there’s a lot of truth here even if it was a dreamt up as a self-serving post hoc justification. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5788548&forum_id=2Vannesa#49366004) |
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Date: October 22nd, 2025 11:43 AM Author: White Selfie Here's a description of how daily life weighed on everyone during the world's greatest Empire to ever exist on Planet Earth: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Stink |
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Date: October 22nd, 2025 11:15 PM Author: Bespoke sadistic lodge stock car (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5788548&forum_id=2Vannesa#49367618) |
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Date: October 23rd, 2025 12:51 AM Author: swashbuckling mauve shrine Interesting quote:
“The leading article in The Illustrated London News commented that: We can colonise the remotest ends of the earth; we can conquer India; we can pay the interest of the most enormous debt ever contracted; we can spread our name, and our fame, and our fructifying wealth to every part of the world; but we cannot clean the River Thames.[37]” |
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Date: October 23rd, 2025 1:13 PM Author: Haunting snowy theatre billboard economy - bottom 99% take care of top 1%, like spent rocket fuel (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5788548&forum_id=2Vannesa#49368665) |
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Date: October 23rd, 2025 1:13 PM Author: Curious abusive center electric furnace The people are reddit are so unbelievably poor and make comments all the time about being poor in the most innocuous way like everyone else is also poor and stupid (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5788548&forum_id=2Vannesa#49368667) |
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Date: October 23rd, 2025 1:16 PM Author: slippery hall gaping somebody will make a post about eating from a dumpster and a brigade of redditors will swarm in with spiels about how “this sub is being taken over by people humble bragging” and how they “dream about the day [they] might be able to eat from a dumpster” and how that poster’s “father was probably the CEO of Dumpster, Inc. which is the only way he was able to afford it.” (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5788548&forum_id=2Vannesa#49368675) |
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Date: October 23rd, 2025 7:00 PM Author: Wild senate rigor (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5788548&forum_id=2Vannesa#49369577) |
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Date: October 23rd, 2025 11:39 PM Author: Zippy Drab Set Windowlicker lmfao (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5788548&forum_id=2Vannesa#49370272) |
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Date: October 24th, 2025 12:14 AM Author: sticky library (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5788548&forum_id=2Vannesa#49370359) |
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Date: October 24th, 2025 8:59 AM Author: seedy lascivious market (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5788548&forum_id=2Vannesa#49370712) |
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Date: October 25th, 2025 9:43 AM Author: swashbuckling mauve shrine (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5788548&forum_id=2Vannesa#49373548) |
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Date: October 24th, 2025 9:26 AM Author: bipolar juggernaut through the magic of fractional reserve banking those proles were able to transform $3k into a brand-new-to-me Dodge Charger (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5788548&forum_id=2Vannesa#49370771) |
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Date: October 25th, 2025 12:14 AM Author: Bespoke sadistic lodge stock car They're all being "repossessed" now ljl (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5788548&forum_id=2Vannesa#49373261) |
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Date: October 24th, 2025 9:33 AM Author: Learning disabled hissy fit voyeur you haven't lived in real America until you shop regularly for food at Family Dollar Stores (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5788548&forum_id=2Vannesa#49370783) |
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Date: October 25th, 2025 5:09 PM Author: Wild senate rigor (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5788548&forum_id=2Vannesa#49374536) |