If it makes you feel any better, some guy like 2 months ago opened a bakery in the middle of the WuFlu and the store got totaled by some random angry people on Grand Opening day... lmao
Well because my industry was literally taken from me for 6/9 months I work in it, I would say a go fund me would be worth the 50k+ myself and my husband (who went full time on our business in January as well) have had to go through in our savings. Yeah, handouts suck but at this point it doesn’t really feel like a handout...more like necessary help especially because we couldn’t get the funds the last time from PPE or anywhere else.
This has delayed us buying a new house, we are down to one car, hopefully can recoup enough to have a second vehicle again, AND I COULD GO ON but I will spare you and just leave it as we got fucked in almost every way possible that was out of our control.
This is the clear destruction of the middle class via small businesses and lockdowns.
The "essential" ones. Our local grocery store chain is booming. They had record profits this year. They gave all of their employees a nice bonus in the 2nd, 3rd and 4th quarters. Their local distribution center is hiring full time workers starting at $18/hr. Fuck Amazon and fuck Walmart. Find a good local company and support them instead.
Glad you put “essential” in quotes cause every man’s livelihood is essential to him. And lots of so called essential gigs are idle much of the time. First the government deprived men and women of work then spits in their faces trying to humiliate them: you’re not essential. You know who isn’t essential? Most bureaucrats, bankers, DC swamp creatures, the liars in media reading scripts.
I spent approximately 10 years of my life on the engineering path via a combination of Electrician's Mate in the Navy and then getting an Electrical Engineering degree after getting out. It's all been completely worthless and I don't know what to do. All my life it was supposed to be the safe smart money and now there's nothing for it.
Speak for yourself. Investment is how I pay for my home instead of taking out a mortgage. Stocks doing well is a boon to any man with the sense to invest.
I don't think you quite get where I came from. Investment was my ticket OUT of the paycheck to paycheck life. It wasn't easy. Literally canned beans or no food for most of the week at times. But I made that climb. Cut all unnecessary expenses and refused to play the credit score game.
Scrounged up just enough to make a good buy which had a lot of payoff later. Not saying this is what everyone should or can do. Not saying it's easy or even smart to take the gamble. I'm saying that the stock market influences a part of nearly every person's life even for people who don't own stocks directly.
The fast majority, 2/3rds, of Americans has some form of 401k. Which relies on the stock market. Mine does too. So a good stock market means my fund is doing swell and so for many others.
investment is beyond the average american's capacity right now
Then the average American can continue to choose to be poor. Regardless of how much money a person makes, they should set aside, at minimum, 10% into long-term investments, then live off the rest - however meager that might be.
Disregarding a few cases with huge unavoidable costs (things like medical operations, not buying a new car every other year), it is so ridiculously easy to set up early-age retirement in the USA at any wage level, to not do just screams lack of financial discipline.
My first 401k was working part time at home depot making 11.75 an hour. Over a decade ago. I was working 4 jobs and putting myself through university. Let me hear your violin. It's tiny. If you aren't lucky then you need to work harder. If you are dumb. You have to work harder. Excuses are nothing but the excuse not to either work harder or try something new.
Oh sure it's 100% manipulated by insiders. But that's why you don't play that game and put your money on long term growers. I lucked out with 100 bitcoin during the last boom I had accepted for a videogame keycode. But those don't come around often. What I got is a bunch of stock in a bunch of companies that will always keep growing and will net me several times what I put in by the end.
Stock market is pumped up by fake money being printed. Don't ever complain about anyone else getting "gibs" ever again. You're as much of a welfare queen as any ghetto black person.
I always complain about gibs. Why wouldn't I? Gibs is money people who don't want to work extract out of the system. But I can do both. Complain about gibs and also complain about the fact you don't seem to understand why a stimulus is not gibs. Because guess what was happening before? Fake money was being printed and handed to banks at a 0% interest rate in the amount to facilitate a 1-2% inflation rate..
I'd rather banks get shanked and the government pumps cash directly through citizens into the economy. You know how we used to do it before Central Banking and FDR decided to have us all use funny money?
Month 7 on my mortgage forebearance. I want america opened back up.
PA but we sank our savings into starting a business in January. Just in time to be screwed and qualify for no help since it wasnt started in 2019.
Same issue here. I'm teetering between making good money, and going bankrupt. Its an odd place to be.
If it makes you feel any better, some guy like 2 months ago opened a bakery in the middle of the WuFlu and the store got totaled by some random angry people on Grand Opening day... lmao
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sRY6LWWSSsM
Isn't it amazing how china town is all open ?
Brick and mortar?
I know people aren’t big on asking for handouts but have you considered starting a fundraiser for yourself or small business.
Well because my industry was literally taken from me for 6/9 months I work in it, I would say a go fund me would be worth the 50k+ myself and my husband (who went full time on our business in January as well) have had to go through in our savings. Yeah, handouts suck but at this point it doesn’t really feel like a handout...more like necessary help especially because we couldn’t get the funds the last time from PPE or anywhere else.
This has delayed us buying a new house, we are down to one car, hopefully can recoup enough to have a second vehicle again, AND I COULD GO ON but I will spare you and just leave it as we got fucked in almost every way possible that was out of our control.
This is the clear destruction of the middle class via small businesses and lockdowns.
Thriving?! Which industries are thriving? Restaurants, hair salons, gyms, are all being wiped out.
Window companies are having great years. At least in MN
The "essential" ones. Our local grocery store chain is booming. They had record profits this year. They gave all of their employees a nice bonus in the 2nd, 3rd and 4th quarters. Their local distribution center is hiring full time workers starting at $18/hr. Fuck Amazon and fuck Walmart. Find a good local company and support them instead.
Glad you put “essential” in quotes cause every man’s livelihood is essential to him. And lots of so called essential gigs are idle much of the time. First the government deprived men and women of work then spits in their faces trying to humiliate them: you’re not essential. You know who isn’t essential? Most bureaucrats, bankers, DC swamp creatures, the liars in media reading scripts.
The toilet paper industry
Steel lumber electrical plumbing, The boring basics.
I spent approximately 10 years of my life on the engineering path via a combination of Electrician's Mate in the Navy and then getting an Electrical Engineering degree after getting out. It's all been completely worthless and I don't know what to do. All my life it was supposed to be the safe smart money and now there's nothing for it.
If not engineering, What Industry do you see for the future?
Open your doors tomorrow.
What does this have to do with Trump’s tweet? Trump has no power over your mortgage or opening up your state.
Speak for yourself. Investment is how I pay for my home instead of taking out a mortgage. Stocks doing well is a boon to any man with the sense to invest.
I don't think you quite get where I came from. Investment was my ticket OUT of the paycheck to paycheck life. It wasn't easy. Literally canned beans or no food for most of the week at times. But I made that climb. Cut all unnecessary expenses and refused to play the credit score game.
Scrounged up just enough to make a good buy which had a lot of payoff later. Not saying this is what everyone should or can do. Not saying it's easy or even smart to take the gamble. I'm saying that the stock market influences a part of nearly every person's life even for people who don't own stocks directly.
The fast majority, 2/3rds, of Americans has some form of 401k. Which relies on the stock market. Mine does too. So a good stock market means my fund is doing swell and so for many others.
Then the average American can continue to choose to be poor. Regardless of how much money a person makes, they should set aside, at minimum, 10% into long-term investments, then live off the rest - however meager that might be.
Disregarding a few cases with huge unavoidable costs (things like medical operations, not buying a new car every other year), it is so ridiculously easy to set up early-age retirement in the USA at any wage level, to not do just screams lack of financial discipline.
My first 401k was working part time at home depot making 11.75 an hour. Over a decade ago. I was working 4 jobs and putting myself through university. Let me hear your violin. It's tiny. If you aren't lucky then you need to work harder. If you are dumb. You have to work harder. Excuses are nothing but the excuse not to either work harder or try something new.
I think it's less "fuck the stock market" and more "fuck the rigged stock market".
Oh sure it's 100% manipulated by insiders. But that's why you don't play that game and put your money on long term growers. I lucked out with 100 bitcoin during the last boom I had accepted for a videogame keycode. But those don't come around often. What I got is a bunch of stock in a bunch of companies that will always keep growing and will net me several times what I put in by the end.
Stock market is pumped up by fake money being printed. Don't ever complain about anyone else getting "gibs" ever again. You're as much of a welfare queen as any ghetto black person.
You're seriously comparing stock investments to welfare?
L. O. L.
I always complain about gibs. Why wouldn't I? Gibs is money people who don't want to work extract out of the system. But I can do both. Complain about gibs and also complain about the fact you don't seem to understand why a stimulus is not gibs. Because guess what was happening before? Fake money was being printed and handed to banks at a 0% interest rate in the amount to facilitate a 1-2% inflation rate..
I'd rather banks get shanked and the government pumps cash directly through citizens into the economy. You know how we used to do it before Central Banking and FDR decided to have us all use funny money?
don't talk to my boy like that
Yeah, fuck making money and shit.
/s
I do you piece of shit