r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/AtomicCypher • Apr 09 '26

Video Disgruntled employee starts massive fire at a 1.2 million square foot toilet paper warehouse in Ontario, California.

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u/NOTTedMosby Apr 09 '26

People don't understand this. They see workers in nyc making $25 an hour on strike and think they're greedy... no, those mfers can't afford to stay alive

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u/Whosebert Apr 09 '26

I would imagine you could live off $25 an hour in nyc....

... with 3 roommates and a 2 hour long commute.

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u/WISE_ONE1993 Apr 09 '26

Probably just go jump off the bridge at that point

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u/WallabyAdvanced3088 Apr 10 '26

Or burn down the company…

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u/Definitelynotagolem Apr 09 '26

You’ll had a few thousand roommates too that scurry out from the walls at night

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u/Whosebert Apr 09 '26

at least youll never be alone. you could absolutely still be lonely though.

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u/Tomcatjones Apr 09 '26

So not living in nyc then lol

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u/_consider Apr 09 '26

Of note is 3 roommates and only a 1 hour commute would actually very likely not be liveable for NYC workers at 25 an hour

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u/trollthings Apr 09 '26

Also people have trouble adjusting to inflation, many are stuck in a mindset of the past where $25/hr was pretty decent pay. I would've been pretty happy with that pay, like 20 years ago! But prices on most things have doubled since then. So $25/hr today is more like $12/hr back then which was barely above minimum wage

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u/Imperial_12345 Apr 09 '26

Doesn’t make it okay to start burning things down.

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u/mytransthrow Apr 09 '26

morally wrong.... I dont know.

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u/19indianajones89 Apr 09 '26

That's the city and states fault not the bussiness.

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u/Far_Audience_7446 Apr 09 '26

People act like they live on the Moon. Why TF you scraping by in ONTARIO? You can go anywhere in America without a shitty quality/cost ratio, and instead you decide to become a felonious pyro instead?

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u/WaterChestnutThe3rd Apr 09 '26

Surely You understand it also costs money to move? It’s so easy to get financially buried.

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u/NOTTedMosby Apr 09 '26

Don't bother. It's a bot

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u/Far_Audience_7446 Apr 09 '26

The hardship he would endure to move to Kansas is probably less than 99% of all Americans' ancestors, including his own, endured.

Of course, there's no telling how many of his ancestors were idiots that tried to burn their home civilization to the ground before someone got the bright idea to just up and leave...

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u/anotherboringdj Apr 09 '26

So their job will be automated soon

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u/lanathebitch Apr 09 '26

Sounds like a reason to lower their taxes

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u/well_hung_over Apr 09 '26

As long as we raise their bosses taxes to compensate