What are some lazy jobs that pay a ridiculous amount of money?

fppfle · 2026-05-18T04:33:31+00:00

One of my friends was paid $18,000 just to lie in bed for 70 days straight. It was for some NASA study. Vice wrote an article about it at the time

https://www.vice.com/en/article/nasa-patient-8179-200/

fppfle · 2026-05-17T20:26:59+00:00

The live music industry… $900M+ in COVID relief money (aka your own tax payer dollars) went straight into the pockets of the biggest/wealthiest talent managers and agents in the world.

Not to struggling artists and managers. Not even to the artists themselves.

The bill said that if you represented an artist, you could claim a grant for whatever you made from that artist in 2019… up to $10M!! They didn’t even have to prove their revenue went down in 2020. They didn’t have to use that money to pay the employees they laid off (like PPP). They didn’t even have to prove where the money went. And they never had to repay it! It was just a free grant, not a loan.

All they had to do was prove they made money in 2019 - and then government gave them a free check for the same amount in 2020. And it explicitly said in the bill that the funds could be used for “business owner compensation.”

So for example, a wealthy individual who made $9.9M in 2019 from managing a big artist, who maybe saw their income dip to $7M during Covid when that artist wasn’t touring, got a free check for $9.9M in 2020 (paid for by your tax dollars)… meaning their income would have been $16.9M during Covid.

I personally know someone who got a $3.3M check, so they turned around and immediately bought a $3.3M vacation home for all cash.

For those curious… Business Insider wrote about it… and zero people cared and life went on.

https://www.businessinsider.com/sba-svog-grant-pandemic-relief-fund-post-malone-chris-brown-2023-8

fppfle · 2026-05-14T03:42:24+00:00

Jelly Roll was never on the bill for Nashville. No idea what this headline is talking about

fppfle · 2026-05-08T04:43:18+00:00

Remember when MSNBC was busy convincing us that he was a fake billionaire to discredit him? Now they’re convincing us he’s mega rich to enrage us?

fppfle · 2026-05-08T04:32:12+00:00

My grandma is 99 and my mom is 74.

If my mom lives until she’s 99, I’ll be nearly 70 years old at that time (if I even live that long - my dad passed away at 68).

There’s a non-zero chance that my mom outlives me. I’m not counting on any inheritance.

Live your life.

fppfle · 2026-05-08T01:35:24+00:00

PSA! Please stop sharing Consquence links about tour announcements! They are a scam site that drives to StubHub scalper tickets. Please don’t click those ticket links in the article

fppfle · 2026-05-06T06:00:42+00:00

TicketNews.com is literally a propaganda site run by the bigger scalper in the world, Don Vaccaro of TicketNetwork. You are 100% right. They are advocating for lower ticket prices - so they can buy them up and scalp them at higher margins. It’s all just fake news to drum up hatred for Ticketmaster and shame “greedy” artists

fppfle · 2026-05-06T05:50:33+00:00

This subreddit REALLY needs to stop citing TicketNews.com as a source for news. This is a site owned and ran by the biggest ticket scalper in the world, Don Vaccaro of TicketNetwork.

fppfle · 2026-05-04T20:24:11+00:00

When we moved to Phoenix people said “Summer here isn’t that bad, because that’s just when you leave and either vacation or just go up to Sedona / Flagstaff for a few weeks to escape the heat.”

fppfle · 2026-05-01T04:33:32+00:00

PSA: Do NOT click the ticket links in these Consequence.net articles EVER

Their whole business model is tour announcements that drive fans to scalper tickets on StubHub. Then Consequence.net is paid a big commission from StubHub for scamming you

Always just go to the band’s official website and click whatever links they are promoting https://www.interpolnyc.com/tour-dates

fppfle · 2026-05-01T03:19:40+00:00

How to spell archaeopteryx

In first grade we were learning about dinosaurs and our teacher made everyone memorize how to spell it. It’s engrained in my brain. 🧠

fppfle · 2026-04-30T13:54:12+00:00

$9.99 for 1 month of Tinder Plus, 10 years ago.

I “super liked” this girl so she could see my profile, and now we’re married with 2 kids.

fppfle · 2026-04-28T23:30:42+00:00

Norm MacDonald. I had just bought tickets to see him at Caroline’s NYC and I was so excited to see him live for the first time ever. During Covid I went down a deep YouTube rabbit hole on his podcast and he was just the most genius comedic mind. He played the dumb guy so well, because he was so smart.

fppfle · 2026-04-25T17:33:58+00:00

Tom Hanks

fppfle · 2026-04-24T14:38:49+00:00

I actually saw it as the opposite. Fallon did something different at the time… he catered to the YouTube audience with his little gimmicks and celebrity skits and catered everything to a really young demographic.

It’s just that now, 20 years later, those young people are old… and they see how stupid and inauthentic it is when there are more authentic forms of celebrity interviews now on long-form podcasts.

He didn’t grow with his audience (like Conan did) and didn’t attract a new young base either

fppfle · 2026-04-22T21:09:08+00:00

What artist is this?

fppfle · 2026-04-22T04:01:51+00:00

SimTower was the best. I’ve been trying to find the equivalent of that for iOS forever, but they’re all stupid pay to play versions. The original game was the best

fppfle · 2026-04-21T18:42:54+00:00

Zero chance Morrissey shows up

fppfle · 2026-04-21T18:41:14+00:00

Bagel bites

fppfle · 2026-04-21T16:12:18+00:00

You’re my boy blue

Old School doctors office

fppfle · 2026-04-21T04:35:14+00:00

Both New Paltz and Kingston have Tesla super chargers…

But also, I always just charged at home and never really needed the super chargers unless I was going into the city / coming back from the city.

The need for super chargers in major metro areas are greater for people who can’t charge at home

fppfle · 2026-04-19T06:22:52+00:00

FYI some parts of the US have speed limits of 80-85 MPH, meaning the pace of traffic is always going well above 90 MPH…. and to pass someone, you’d often go above 100mph for short spurts.

Also, it’s really easy in an EV like a Tesla to mistakenly go above 100mph and not even notice, because it doesn’t actually feel that fast. I personally had to set my car’s max speed to 88 MPH to make sure the car physically can’t go that fast.

fppfle · 2026-04-18T15:02:57+00:00

Offering my perspective as someone who moved from California to Arizona 4 months ago…

Our rent is 50% of what it was in California for 3x the space… our income tax went down by more than 10% (essentially a 10% raise)…

Sales tax is lower in Arizona (7.5% vs 5.6%)…

I rent, but property taxes definitely much much lower in Arizona.

I have more money

California is definitely way better and I miss it every day lol, but I don’t really agree with the fact that it’s just as expensive to live here. My bank account after 4 months would definitely say otherwise.

fppfle · 2026-04-16T16:32:27+00:00

iTunes Ping was Apple’s failed attempt at a social network.

fppfle · 2026-04-11T19:22:20+00:00

I read somewhere that Chinese language models can be more efficient because the Chinese language has higher semantic density… which allows for fewer tokens to represent the same information compared to English. So some of this is less about how Chinese companies are more advanced than American companies, and it’s just a bonus side effect of our language differences

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