Not from 42 Wallaby Way

P. Sherman 24- Outskirts of Chicago. 

[elierlick]

I think about this a lot.

[is-the-post-reliable]

requested by anonymous:

RATING: RELIABLE

Source: ‘The math checks out. In 2019, the median annual earning for women was $47,299. For men, it was $57,546. Averaged together, that’s about $52,423.The cost of the average home in the same time was $377,700. That is about 14 percent of the median salary.’

[hamletthedane]

As of Oct 2022, the median annual earnings for women in the United States was $50,492 (extrapolated by multiplying weekly earnings by 52 weeks). For men, it was $60,528. Average together, that’s about $55.640. The average purchase price of a home in the United States during Q3 of 2022 was $542,900.

The average salary in the US is now about 10.2% of the cost of a home.

[hamletthedane]

But that’s not even the whole story, because “income earned” means pre-tax income, and mortgage payments are not tax deductible unless you itemize (which people w/ average salaries do not do bc it’s usually less than the standard deduction).

In 1936, following FDR’s income tax hikes, the median annual salary for a single person was $830, taxed at 4% Income + 1% Social Security. The take-home median pay was therefore ~$790. The average home value was $4,766. So take-home pay was about 16.5% of home cost in 1936.

In Oct 2022, taxes are a bit more complicated. Assuming you take the standard deduction, file single, and only pay federal income tax, the take-home pay from a salary of $55,640 is about $51,584.

(Using H&R Block’s 2022 tax estimator)

So really, the average take-home pay is now 9.5% of the average home price.

Meanwhile, the person earning $2M/yr in 2022 would end up taking home at least $1,289,600. He is taxed at 35.3% of his earnings. The person earning the inflation-adjusted equivalent of in 1936 (~$95,000) would be taxed at 60% of his earnings.

Tl;dr: It’s an even more dire situation than that tweet suggests. Taxes on the middle class have skyrocketed, taxes on the ultra-rich have been slashed in half, and housing is nearly twice the ratio to income earned that it was in the middle of the Great Depression.

[fidelcostco]

I’m so scared, what the fuck does this do to you

[memesnotwelcome]

[f85o-deactivated20230618]

[liberalsarecool]

'You can't do this to a white man! He needs privileges!'

[comicgeekscomicgeek]

Wow.  Yep, this tracks.

[thefingerfuckingfemalefury]

I see no lies here

[jamieisamess]

Just learned that the NYPD apparently edited their own fucking Wikipedia page to make themselves look better 😀

ACAB 🐷🖕🥰

[president-queef]

Bruh moment

[pixelartpeach]

If you look at the edit history, this is an ongoing fight, and the NYPD is anonymous 90% of the time:

For people new to the Wikipedia edit scene (like me), the red numbers are how many characters were removed, and the green are how many added.

[huffylemon]

[yuri-alexseygaybitch]

Maybe not the point of this post but I really think USAmerican Christians should be in fucking jail for what they do to children

[sleepy-bebby]

[thickness-protection-program]

Why is this heat so hot 😩

[fagapult]

It’s the heat

[thickness-protection-program]

Source?

[mamoswole]

[thickness-protection-program]

[pepsimansthickjuicymeatyschlong]

[crazy-brazilian]

[randobambo]

Gravel Institute did a documentary/interview with him a few months back. 

Worth watching the full thing because this is some fucked up BS they put him through.

[swordkitty]

[entishramblings]

oh.

[sidebyside-withafriend]

oh

[duckduckgryphon]

@gallusrostromegalus

[gallusrostromegalus]

That’s EXACTLY what it is, and I will henceforth be referring to recipie blogs as “in they style of Tolkien”

[campyvillain]

happy july i hate Autism Moms so much its unreal

[stasi-informant-deactivated2021]

[huffylemon]

Alright, so tumblr staff is acting like as if we tumblr users have enough money to pay other tumblr users.

tumblr forgets that their user base is basically just a bunch of alley rats huddled around a slice of cheese

[drekasal]

…shit, now I want to draw this.

[drekasal]

OK, THIS IS REALLY ROUGH AND SHITTY, BUT I WANTED TO GET THIS OUT HERE

[huffylemon]

this is exactly what I envisioned when I made this post. Perfectly executed.

[humansofnewyork]

“I had an empire once. They called me the Hot Dog King. I owned the largest vending company in the history of New York City, with 499 permits. But when the city tried to ban disabled Vietnam veterans from vending in midtown, I fought em’ hard. I got them to reverse the decision. But it upset some powerful people. Mayor Giuliani convinced a handful of idiots on the city council to change the regulations. They took all my permits away, except for one. They carved me out. They beat me so bad. Then my wife had a stroke, and I completely shut down for two years. I couldn’t fight the fights anymore. We lost our home. We were living in a van for awhile. I went from riches to below rags. But I couldn’t just roll over and die. I had to do something to feed my family. So one morning I dusted myself off, borrowed a pushcart from a friend, and headed to one the busiest places in the city, the front steps of The Metropolitan Museum. Now this was some valuable real estate. A permit for that spot would normally run about $650,000 a year. But I wasn’t going to pay a thing. I’m a disabled veteran. I sacrificed for this country, and I’ve got a right to make a living like everyone else. The cops kept giving me warnings. They said I couldn’t set up by the museum. But every time they bothered me, I would move closer, and closer. Until I reached the dead center of the museum. The single greatest spot to sell hot dogs in all of New York City. And I’ve been here for the past fourteen years. I’ve managed to stabilize the household. We make enough in the summer to survive the winter. I’m supporting three generations of Rossi’s with this cart, and I’m not budging. They took me to court and I beat em’ so bad. They’ve taken me to jail. They’ve tried to tow me. For five years I slept in the cart every single night. When they tried passing a law that you can’t sleep in your cart, I started sleeping in my van. I’m guarding this spot with my life. They’re not going to beat me. Not again. I may not be the Hot Dog King anymore, but I’ve still got a lot of fight left in me. I’m coming back. One hot dog at a time.”

[yesterdaysprint]

St. Louis Post-Dispatch, Missouri, July 6, 1916

[hotvampireadjacent]

[objectlessondujour]

The book is 1984, which is neither. It's anti-authoritarian, which tells you a lot.

[musicalsilence]

Ya know, sometimes I wish the joke *didn’t* write itself.

[guerrillatech]

[kafkaesque-meat-deactivated2025]

Okay but there are several reasons that are kinda interesting

1) fast food restaurants cannot advertise to children anymore, so that means no more bright colors and child friendly mascots

2) McDonalds and the like have been loosing ground to “fresh fast food” chains like Chipotle for the better part of two decades, and this style is meant to emulate that more clean, “mature” style.

3) Resale on property. See, fast food isn’t doing as well as it did in the 90s-early 2000s, and where it used to be fairly rare to have a fast food place close, now a days you might have a location close, and good luck selling the old, branded building to a completely different business. You know those closed Pizza Huts that just sorta sit there forever, very clearly having been a Pizza Hut? Well as it turns out, most businesses don’t want to buy a building that is recognizably from a different brand. You’d basically have to tear down the building and start over, a costly decision when there are plenty of plain looking spaces that you can buy/rent and put a lot less cost into renovations. So for a fast food chain now, it’s far better to have a plain “this could be any sort of counter service place, just change the signs!” In case you have to close that location and sell the building.

Basically fast food places look like this now because fast food is an industry that is well past it’s peak profits, and businesses must plan for their eventual closure and for their building to simply be absorbed into the next trend or monopoly.

[dogged-hot]

This makes sense but also there's an urgent care in my area that has the pizza hut roof

[weaselbeaselpants]

@susie-loves-sanaya pics please?