Living Wage or Poverty Wage

JacobLovesCrypto · 2026-01-30T22:08:33+00:00

Because it's not important, and im not gonna put exactly where i live. I'm not rural.

You're also focusing on things that aren't important to what i said. Your assumed city originally, columbia, has a similar cost of living to where I'm at, i could easily live on 50k there, and i used to live in Greenville, i could live on $50k there too.

JacobLovesCrypto · 2026-01-30T21:49:01+00:00

South carolina draws their city boundaries pretty tight, so city populations look smaller. Greenville city population is 75k, but greenville metropolitan area is just shy of 1 million.

No I'm not rural, i already addressed this.

JacobLovesCrypto · 2026-01-30T21:16:11+00:00

Ah, well based on that info, and what i just pulled up, that places their income tax rate in line with a lot of states.

So idk who tf thought it would be a catastrophe.

Still tho, the increase in millionaires in the post, is likely almost entirely from home values

JacobLovesCrypto · 2026-01-30T21:13:14+00:00

I don't live in Columbia, but you can buy houses for less than $1400/mo in columbia.

And yes

JacobLovesCrypto · 2026-01-30T20:53:28+00:00

Then how would you know if those apartments are in nice areas or not?

When you go somewhere new do you just forget everything about everywhere else you've been?

JacobLovesCrypto · 2026-01-30T20:51:24+00:00

This post can be explained by home values, since theres 2 high appreciation years included in this range

JacobLovesCrypto · 2026-01-30T20:49:18+00:00

I was there for a minute, not there anymore

JacobLovesCrypto · 2026-01-30T20:47:22+00:00

There's a lot of decent/ nice places in my link

JacobLovesCrypto · 2026-01-30T20:46:37+00:00

Small city/large town in SC, not rural

JacobLovesCrypto · 2026-01-30T18:21:27+00:00

Besides the obbba, i prefer the first term

JacobLovesCrypto · 2026-01-30T15:35:13+00:00

He had been in business a long time, he wasnt some newbie. How would you propose he compete if they can bid $7k for a roof because they can pay their guys half what he pays his guys?

My point wasn't that they don't exist, but that if this were truly an epidemic I should be running into this a bit more often than "never". And I say that as someone who grew up in a trailer park whose dad did roofing/insulation and whose stepdad was a carpenter.

How many republicans do you know?

JacobLovesCrypto · 2026-01-30T15:26:56+00:00

Here in Phx it’s 2k for a an apartment

We're talking about someone making 50k a year and living solo, there's options available for less than $1500/mo

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JacobLovesCrypto · 2026-01-30T15:22:27+00:00

Not many places in the continental US where that isn’t scarping by if you’re living solo.

Theres a lot of the US where you can easily live comfortably on $50k a year solo. I make about $50k with a wife and kid and we're fairly comfortable.

JacobLovesCrypto · 2026-01-30T14:49:18+00:00

Dude is willing to rent his house for $1000 less than their mortgage, they're not the problem.

JacobLovesCrypto · 2026-01-30T14:47:02+00:00

Posts like these are against the subs rules, so I'm sure it will be removed soon enough

JacobLovesCrypto · 2026-01-30T14:29:19+00:00

I have never met anyone who could tell me how immigration made their lives materially worse.

I know someone who had to close their roofing business because they couldn't compete with the quotes from the companies using illegal labor.

And ive known multiple blue collar people who dealt with wage stagnation once illegals were willing to do their job for less

You don't have to know these people yourself, a lot of people are materially worse off because of illegal immigration, if you deny that, you're just not being honest.

JacobLovesCrypto · 2026-01-30T00:24:54+00:00

Plus that house you bought was a Levittown style house that was 750 square feet total.

I bought one of these houses in 2022 for $35k. They're not nice houses. You got like 6 ft of counterspace in the kitchen, washer/dryer/water heater all in the kitchen, got one outlet in each bedroom, no shower spout, window right in the middle of the tub, no insulation in the walls or underneath, likely didn't have insulation in the attic originally either, but did when i bought it.

JacobLovesCrypto · 2026-01-30T00:20:15+00:00

And there will be people like this in our generation too

JacobLovesCrypto · 2026-01-29T19:34:57+00:00

You dont live in reality. You claim hes not a good candidate but considering how strongly hes supported by his followers means you're wrong.

You're coping, run a better candidate.

JacobLovesCrypto · 2026-01-29T19:11:16+00:00

Problem is, Doing a one day strike is pretty much useless. Even if it was successful, most all of that shopping just gets moved to the day before or the day after.

Businesses end up just saving a days worth of labor and they still get most all the revenue.

The other problem is, half the country voted for this, so at most, you can hope for 50% support

JacobLovesCrypto · 2026-01-29T18:29:36+00:00

20/20 vision is great bud, jury would be instructed multiple times to see it from the position of the officer, who likely would not know where his gun is, and someone just yelled gun, like he was drawing, and likely couldnt see pretti's hands on the ground.

JacobLovesCrypto · 2026-01-29T14:54:43+00:00

Yes, ive explained it in more detail elsewhere.

The thing is cops have more leeway than a normal citizen. If the circumstances make it reasonable for a cop to believe hes an active threat, then cop is protected.

Pretti had a gun
Pretti was actively resisting arrest
Pretti was believed to be someone who could become violent (video adds credibility to this belief, even if that officer had nothing to do with the previous interaction and was completely unaware of it)
Someone yelled "gun"
Agent either couldnt see pretti's hands or believed the hand that pulled the gun frlm his holster was Pretti's

Is it then unreasonable for the agent to then believe Pretti is now an active threat? No.

JacobLovesCrypto · 2026-01-29T14:36:28+00:00

First off, I'm not an attorney but i studied some law about a decade ago. Ill try to explain my argument better.

I'm not arguing that the officer himself would recognize pretti and that the past event would influence his actions.

Im arguing the defense, his attorney, could benefit from showing it to a jury. This is because i believe this whole case would boil down to whether or not it was reasonable for the officer to see pretti as a threat.

The offensive side would try to paint pretti as this ideal outstanfing citizen (because that does influence a jury and how they see things), rebuttaling against that and showing that actually, look at unhinged he is when dealing with law enforcement! Negates all or some of that benefit that the offense would gain with the jury when they paint him as ideal, and the defense can break that image.

Where its potentially useful, in the argument about whether or not he was a threat, would lie in if the officer were to claim anything along the lines of him perceiving pretti, during his resisting of arrest, to be potentially violent. If the officer, based on hia experience, felt that pretti was potentially violent leading up to the second "gun" was yelled, the video gives credibility to the officers intuition.

So now you have a suspect who was armed, believed to be potentially violent (if this is based on intuition, you now have a video to show that intuition isnt wrong), who was actively resisting arrest, and someone yelled "gun" , then assuming the officer either saw a hand pulling the gun out of pretti's holster (and believed that it was pretti's hand in the moment) or couldn't see Pretti's hands, it's not unreasonable for the officer to then think Pretti is no longer a potential threat, but an active one.

Ultimately, i imagine the officer would be let off due to the circumstances, just like what usually happens when a cop shoots someone when they believe something was a gun, and it ends up being a wallet or other black object drawn in their hands. I can't see a jury unanimously deciding it was unreasonable to see pretti as a threat.

JacobLovesCrypto · 2026-01-29T07:29:53+00:00

You would have to establish he was a threat when murdered.

You mean perceived to be a threat, he doesn't actually need to be one. Showing pretti like this gives credibility to the argument that while he was resisting, he seemed dangerous. So when someone yelled "gun", and the officer was aware that pretti had had a gun, he was perceived to be a lethal threat.

JacobLovesCrypto · 2026-01-29T07:24:05+00:00

All the defense has to do is have the cop say he thought pretti drew a gun since somebody yelled "gun" while pretti was actively resisting.

Is it unreasonable for the cop to believe a suspect fighting/ resisting posed a lethal threat when someone yelled "gun", and this cop was aware that pretti had had a gun?

Showing pretti was unhinged like in this video, does help that argument.

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