A jury has found a delivery driver not guilty in the shooting of a YouTube prankster who was following him around a mall food court earlier this year

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    1 year ago

    What McDonald’s are you working at for $25+ an hour?.

    Don’t listen to me

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        1 year ago

        You’re right, my bad. I’d like to blame the bad math on it being early morning… But it’s just me being dumb.

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          1 year ago

          Don’t apologize, their math is wrong too. That might be their gross pay, but their take home is likely ~2/3 of that.

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            That’s fine. How would you expect anyone in a conversation like this to apply taxes? Which city, county and state are you going to use for those calculations?

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              Are you purposely missing the point, or…? Seems like you’re just trying to argue for the sake of arguing.

              I’m good.

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        1 year ago

        Well that’s not take home. They’d prob be taking home around 2/3 of that. So more like 1,300 at $12.50/hour if my quick math is right.

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            Huh? I’m just saying that someone making $12.50/hour, working 40 hours a week, isn’t taking home anything close to $2,000.

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              And neither is the youtuber which is exactly the point I was making. That theyre being a cunt to other people over what amounts to be a minimum wage job.

              Being a youtuber does not magically make you not subject to the exact same taxes that everyone else is. They are not taking home all of what they made any more than a mcdonalds worker does. In fact, being self employed means you are paying the other half of the medicare/social security tax not just half of it directly with most jobs.

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                1 year ago

                Please look at usernames, I’m not the person you’re arguing with. I just corrected the person who said people who make $12.50/hr are making $2k a week because that’s absurd. That’s all.

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                  1. I was the person you responded to. Check the username and:

                  2. I did not say 2,000 a week. I said 2,000 a month.

                  A youtuber making 2k a month is not taking home more money than someone making 2k a month at mcdonalds. They pay the same taxes. Actually the employer pays half of the social security/medicare tax while the self employed pay the entirety of it themselves.

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                    1 year ago

                    I meant month. Who fucking cares, you were wrong. I pointed it out. Be an adult. Accept it and move on.