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Originally Posted by inv4zn
Look man, if an additional 50K a year makes no meaningful difference in your quality of life, then you are far better off than literally mostly everyone - and anything you say about how fucking hard it is to live here loses any credibility.
As for your wife's friend, while I'm not negating any stress she may feel running a business with employees, isn't really the same struggle most people are facing right now. "Keeping your head above water" doesn't really mean what you think it is, when you're standing in a pool that's 4 feet deep. The families struggling to stay afloat are the ones any "handouts" are supposed to help.
Oh, but wait, it's actually their fault because they all god art major degrees, my bad. I guess by that logic your wife's boss should also have chosen a different career since people's stress are all self-inflicted.
...and, hang on, you want the government to give handouts to your wife's boss? wtf?
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The tone of your post feels like it’s making assumptions people haven’t worked incredibly hard for what they already have.
Paid for all my schooling myself, paid for my first place myself, etc. etc. I’d accept I’m a benefactor of timing but that’s about it.
An extra 50k a year would make my life slightly more comfortable but it’s not like I’d be buying a new BMW. I’ve made more equity in my home in the last 6 year than I would have made with that extra 50k over 2 decades. I’m still not rich, not even close.
I never said anything about any business getting a hand out, I was saying the stress of trying to make a business work likely isn’t worth that extra bit of money you may or may not make and all the risk involved in that. Although I do think small business is a far better place to hand out money than these massive corpos in the back pocket of the govt.