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Krispy Wafer posted:This. Listening to my mom bitch about the taxes she’d have to pay on her stock was so aggravating. If your share is worth $100 you don’t pay taxes on $100. You take what you paid for the share (say $70) and pay an incredibly low capital gains on the difference. This poo poo isn’t difficult. Something like $4. Then we’d have the same conversation 6 months later. My mom posted a Facebook pic that said workers with a single baloney slice sandwich and then a welfare with lobster. I posted that the max in our state is 6.50 a day or something. Then some dumb boomer said "I SAW SOMEONE BUYING SUCHI WITH AN EBT CARD. EATING GOOD ON OUR DIME!" FYI, that boomer was unemployed. Also, my mom was on food stamps and is on state insurance yet still thinks she's somehow superior to the people that "abuse" it.
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Nov 7, 2019 17:03
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Leon Einstein posted:They believe they're being "double taxed" on capital gains even though they're only paying taxes on money they didn't have before. They don't understand money keeps going around and around and being taxed over and over again. That's just how money works. I pay a carpenter in post tax dollars, yet he still pays taxes on it. He buys supplies with that money and pays taxes on it. The vendor receiving that money pays taxes on it. poo poo isn't confusing. Boomers are dumb and would rather have a lovely society than pay taxes. Boomers really do love to complain about how many bags of chips they saw the black person in front of them at Kroger buy with an EBT card. Hell, I remember when I was unemployed I attempted to get an EBT card, and I made too much money on unemployment. You have to be loving poor to get an EBT.
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Nov 7, 2019 17:09
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How would you even know someone was using an EBT card?
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Nov 7, 2019 17:12
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Pook Good Mook posted:Tangentially related and possible unpopular opinion, but "ageism" is completely invented bullshit that's used exclusively by old people who refuse to learn anything or adapt to changes. My work still gets the loving newspaper delivered because heaven forbid we just get a mass login for online editions. We got a new coffee machine that I've had to explain and re-teach to the same people endlessly for the past month. Absolutely. There are actual problems of elder abuse that happen in shoddy retirement homes and by (ironically, usually boomer) children of the elderly who can't defend themselves. Or even older people who try to find a job and won't get it next to a younger candidate because of certain perceptions. My dad took advantage of the Ontario government's "second career" option after 2008 where he got to take a 2-year college program to find another job. When he got nothing for a couple of years, he said "gently caress it, I'm now officially retired". But it's never that. Similar to terms like "virtue signalling", there are specific reasons where it's appropriate, but it's been appropriated by idiots and has become essentially meaningless at best, and a marker on who to avoid at worst.
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Nov 7, 2019 17:13
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Leon Einstein posted:How would you even know someone was using an EBT card? Where I live you swipe the card before you pay with anything else, which to me would mean that only the EBT items count and everything else they’re paying for themselves, but also racism is a decent sized chunk of it.
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Nov 7, 2019 17:14
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Leon Einstein posted:How would you even know someone was using an EBT card? It’s branded in a specific way. So basically, by having seen enough of them to know what the branding looks like.
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Nov 7, 2019 17:14
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bobjr posted:Where I live you swipe the card before you pay with anything else, which to me would mean that only the EBT items count and everything else they’re paying for themselves, but also racism is a decent sized chunk of it. Coolguye posted:It’s branded in a specific way. So basically, by having seen enough of them to know what the branding looks like. So in other words, they know because they're not minding their own loving business.
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Nov 7, 2019 17:15
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Mike Rowe is a scumbag, but have y’all seen Undercover Boss? It is also peak boomer.
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Nov 7, 2019 17:17
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I would venture to guess less than 5% of the total boomer population understand progressive taxation. Not only do they not understand the how the payment's are structured but are totally removed from what the money is for. Every single one of them seems to have this one dimensional take which is that: tax is money being "stolen" from them. Not that they get services for the tax like a livable society or defined benefits. I've heard multiple times over the past year how getting a raise is actually a bad thing because "you are just going to pay more TAX!!!". Raising taxes on the middle class (LOL) will destroy the economy (bigly LOL)!! You can't raise taxes on the wealthy they EARNED that money!! No one will want to be RICH then what!??!!!
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Nov 7, 2019 17:17
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Boomers love to have their phone ringers at full volume and letting it ring until voicemail picks up. Especially when they're at the doctor's office.
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Nov 7, 2019 17:20
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Picnic Princess posted:I remember it being used at a place I used to work, but it was the opposite with real consequences: they refused to give younger people managerial positions because "young people aren't as smart because they don't have life experience". But see, even that isn't "ageism." It might be lovely and wrong, but "lack of experience" is a legit reason to not hire/promote someone. I know in practice it was almost certainly because of a perception problem, but that's not "ageism." Of course, it's different if "lack of experience" is exclusively leveled at young people and never applied to 40-somethings who've changed careers. "Ageism" is 2 people who are equally qualified and you make the choice based solely on the person's age. But as you point out, in practice it can affect young and old. Frankly, I think "ageism" is completely valid if you're looking to fill an entry-level or mid-level job and you've got a 35 year old and a 60 year old. There's no point hiring the 60 year old and investing effort training them and paying them for them to leave you in 7 years anyway. I realize saying "ageism" can be valid is not exactly kosher, but I wouldn't expect to get hired at my current job when I'm 60 if there's someone my age willing to do it.
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Nov 7, 2019 17:22
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Framboise posted:So in other words, they know because they're not minding their own loving business. I've seen them in two different states and they look like a credit/debit card to me. You'd have to be one doing one of the following to notice: a) pretty much up the rear end of the person in front of you and paying attention to their card b) assuming that any person of color is always using an EBT card c) parroting some poo poo that they heard on conservative radio/Fox News/ONN/etc.
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Nov 7, 2019 17:23
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Noone will invest if you raise capital gains rates. They will somehow stop caring about making more money if it is marginally less than before, duh.
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Nov 7, 2019 17:24
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Framboise posted:So in other words, they know because they're not minding their own loving business. More importantly, they are not only being nosy, the point is that you only recognize an EBT card if you've worked at grocery stores in the past decade or so or have been on food stamps. So they're hypocrites as well as nosy.
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Nov 7, 2019 17:24
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number 1 snake fan posted:Boomers love to have their phone ringers at full volume and letting it ring until voicemail picks up. They really like hearing Jimmy Buffet every time it rings though
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Nov 7, 2019 17:24
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Pook Good Mook posted:Frankly, I think "ageism" is completely valid if you're looking to fill an entry-level or mid-level job and you've got a 35 year old and a 60 year old. There's no point hiring the 60 year old and investing effort training them and paying them for them to leave you in 7 years anyway. I realize saying "ageism" can be valid is not exactly kosher, but I wouldn't expect to get hired at my current job when I'm 60 if there's someone my age willing to do it. This only holds until you remember the 35 year-old is likely to jump ship first new offer they get too. Mercenary economy bitches! 
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Nov 7, 2019 17:26
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Iron Crowned posted:They really like hearing Jimmy Buffet every time it rings though Oh yeah, i forgot: custom ringtones
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Nov 7, 2019 17:27
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mind the walrus posted:This only holds until you remember the 35 year-old is likely to jump ship first new offer they get too. Mercenary economy bitches! I guess my post was premised on a job/company you'd actually want to stay at, fair point. Relatedly, a favorite schaden of mine is boomers complaining that young people won't stay at a job when they're responsible for the Reagan era right to work push.
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Nov 7, 2019 17:27
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Framboise posted:So in other words, they know because they're not minding their own loving business. Correct. There is ONE store I have ever walked into that makes the information reasonably discoverable, and that’s when they have those giant screens that show the whole order, and then also provide fine details about the payment method. Most places will just display “CARD” when you use a card of any stripe, but a few of them display “DEBIT” or “CREDIT” or “EBT”. So it could ostensibly be that this establishment is violating peoples’ privacy but still arguably you should be politely looking elsewhere when that giant screen isn’t for you.
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Nov 7, 2019 17:27
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mind the walrus posted:This only holds until you remember the 35 year-old is likely to jump ship first new offer they get too. Mercenary economy bitches! If my company interviewed anyone younger than the age of 50 for the good six figgie jobs with nice benefits they wouldn't have that problem.
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Nov 7, 2019 17:27
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Pook Good Mook posted:Tangentially related and possible unpopular opinion, but "ageism" is completely invented bullshit that's used exclusively by old people who refuse to learn anything or adapt to changes. My work still gets the loving newspaper delivered because heaven forbid we just get a mass login for online editions. We got a new coffee machine that I've had to explain and re-teach to the same people endlessly for the past month. I hired an 18 year old with almost no work experience for a physical labor job that had quit his first job as a CNA within 2 weeks tell me that it was ageism that he didn't immediately get jobs that "fit his skillset" in Missoula (incredibly tough job market). I just straight up laughed in his face
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Nov 7, 2019 17:28
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mind the walrus posted:This only holds until you remember the 35 year-old is likely to jump ship first new offer they get too. Mercenary economy bitches! If capitalism would give more than an token %2 raise per year (only if you're good) that wouldn't happen.
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Nov 7, 2019 17:28
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Boomer men refuse to sit down to pee bc they think it'll invalidate their masculinity and make their dicks fall off but they also refuse to stand close enough or aim so they end up pissing all over the toilet, down the sides, and all over the floor. Then it's not their problem anymore and they bitch about how filthy the bathroom is.
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Nov 7, 2019 17:29
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sweet thursday posted:SCHOOL OF HARD KNOCKS under Education on their fb profiles My dad. Check.
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Nov 7, 2019 17:30
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thatguy posted:I hired an 18 year old with almost no work experience for a physical labor job that had quit his first job as a CNA within 2 weeks tell me that it was ageism that he didn't immediately get jobs that "fit his skillset" in Missoula (incredibly tough job market). I just straight up laughed in his face "Average white-guy syndrome" is real and crosses generations.
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Nov 7, 2019 17:33
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number 1 snake fan posted:Boomer men refuse to sit down to pee bc they think it'll invalidate their masculinity and make their dicks fall off but they also refuse to stand close enough or aim so they end up pissing all over the toilet, down the sides, and all over the floor. I have never understood this nonsense. Hitting the head is one of the only times I get to soak in privacy and quiet during my work day, you better believe that when I go there I’m gonna sit down and enjoy it.
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Nov 7, 2019 17:35
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DorkusMalorkus posted:I work in a place that sells cigarettes and our corporate masters have now enacted a "card everyone" policy for every cigarette purchase. It's dumb and everyone knows and agrees that it is dumb, but the vast majority of people of all ages will just pull out their drat ID when we ask for it. My parents are like this. It became common to have a blanket policy of carding everyone at a lot of restaurants in my hometown due to the severity of consequences of serving someone underage, and a law which results in people with multiple DUIs having a brand placed on their license and being banned from alcohol purchases. My parents take it as a personal affront every time they are carded, and will make a point of getting huffy about it to the server, often leaving the restaurant and refusing to come back to places with such policies. I've talked with them about it a few times and given them crap for making the staff's life harder for no reason, asking why they're taking this out on people who definitely cannot change that policy and for whom making an exception probably jeapordizes their employment, etc... They've stopped being as dramatic about it when I'm visiting but will still grouse about "...it's like they assume we're all criminals!" and so on and I can only roll my eyes. They're also super paranoid about giving out their actual residence address to government departments, "biometrics" in passports (the embedded chip thing on modern ones I think?), and so on... Like you say, poo poo that doesn't actually matter and that there is no logic to worrying about in context. I understand not wanting to give information to private entities, but if you're at a point where you're worried about whether or not the DMV has the right address on file or whatever, you're probably boned anyway and if you've successfully obscured it it just means more fines or charges when, not if, whichever agency is after you shows up at your door.
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Nov 7, 2019 17:39
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Pook Good Mook posted:"Average white-guy syndrome" is real and crosses generations. "But I'm the protagonist!"
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Nov 7, 2019 17:42
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super nailgun posted:My parents are like this. It became common to have a blanket policy of carding everyone at a lot of restaurants in my hometown due to the severity of consequences of serving someone underage, and a law which results in people with multiple DUIs having a brand placed on their license and being banned from alcohol purchases. My parents take it as a personal affront every time they are carded, and will make a point of getting huffy about it to the server, often leaving the restaurant and refusing to come back to places with such policies. I've talked with them about it a few times and given them crap for making the staff's life harder for no reason, asking why they're taking this out on people who definitely cannot change that policy and for whom making an exception probably jeapordizes their employment, etc... They've stopped being as dramatic about it when I'm visiting but will still grouse about "...it's like they assume we're all criminals!" and so on and I can only roll my eyes. And yet I got "Aren't you going to card me  " jokes from boomer women all the time when I didn't. Or "Oh, card her, I think she's underage" jokes from the boomer men accompanying them. Not older people. We had plenty of 70+ year olds back when I used to do it, and they were usually pretty polite and undemanding.
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Nov 7, 2019 17:45
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Jascum posted:Mike Rowe is a scumbag, but have y’all seen Undercover Boss? It is also peak boomer. I remember the pilot episode exposed textbook wage theft. Every minute late you were from a break or lunch they would deduct two minutes of pay. Incredibly illegal.
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Nov 7, 2019 17:49
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number 1 snake fan posted:Boomer men refuse to sit down to pee bc they think it'll invalidate their masculinity and make their dicks fall off but they also refuse to stand close enough or aim so they end up pissing all over the toilet, down the sides, and all over the floor. Yup, that's the bathroom at my office. By about 3pm, the floor in front of the urinals is soaked. Pook Good Mook posted:But see, even that isn't "ageism." It might be lovely and wrong, but "lack of experience" is a legit reason to not hire/promote someone. My old company had to have three years of mandatory anti-ageism training for all of its employees due to losing an ageism lawsuit leveled at them by a boomer who didn't like that the job posting said that it was a young company, was great for people right out of college, and that it was a junior position. Legally, ageism is discrimination against anyone over 40 due to their age. It doesn't cut both ways, though, so firing or not hiring someone under 40 because they're under 40 is perfectly fine.
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Nov 7, 2019 17:50
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I'm almost 40, and while most places have stopped carding me, I have my ID (and payment method) out before I'm even at the counter. Boomers really don't seem to understand the concept of pulling your cards before they're specifically asked for them. Need an ID? They wait for them to specifically ask for it despite the giant placard indicating everyone will be carded, and it happening every time they're there. Been waiting in line for the last 5 minutes? Watch the cashier slack-jawed while they check everything out and bag it, and announce the total, before even bothering to fish around for their credit card. Every loving time.
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Nov 7, 2019 17:53
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There are a growing number of over 50 apartment complexes near me so I wonder how that doesn’t get an ageism lawsuit.
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Nov 7, 2019 17:54
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how the gently caress do yall have a 401k or have any money saved for retirement at all lmao
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Nov 7, 2019 17:56
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I know millennials have it much tougher, but acting like having a 401k is an absurdly difficult thing to have is strange. I've had entry level side jobs with 401ks.
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Nov 7, 2019 17:59
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Lactose Is Wack posted:I would venture to guess less than 5% of the total boomer population understand progressive taxation. I have worked with multiple boomers over the years that always bitched about raises and even tried talking their boss out of raises altogether. They were wholly convinced that if they made even one dollar over the tax bracket top they were in now, they'd be taxed so much that take-home pay would be less than before. I was in my early twenties then and I was really confused by how supposedly responsible adults could be so offensively stupid. I didn't know what to say to that and nodded along, usually.
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Nov 7, 2019 18:00
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Leon Einstein posted:I know millennials have it much tougher, but acting like having a 401k is an absurdly difficult thing to have is strange. I've had entry level side jobs with 401ks. OK Boomer
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Nov 7, 2019 18:04
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bobjr posted:There are a growing number of over 50 apartment complexes near me so I wonder how that doesn’t get an ageism lawsuit. I wouldn't begin to know the legal ins and outs but the very bottom of the bottom lines is "it generates revenue."
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Nov 7, 2019 18:04
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Just got an E-mail from the company prohibiting any "Ok Boomer" memes being shared through phones. I have tenure so I responded accordingly. lmfao
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Nov 7, 2019 18:05
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Boomers love having a Verizon ringback tone of La Primavera and it sounds like absolute poo poo
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