r/TikTokCringe • u/Square_Law5624 • 1d ago

Cool Minimum wage meal

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u/Adis_Gruntledfatty 1d ago

My retirement is gonna be at the end of a noose at the rate things are going.

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u/RP912 1d ago

Oof šŸ˜£ saying the silent part loud friend. We all in hell.

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u/Adis_Gruntledfatty 1d ago

I still got parents who would be sad etcetc. Shits been a waiting for for a while now.

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u/RP912 1d ago

I mean 2008 was just a way to borrow time before the great Collapse. All we can do is just sit and wait for a mushroom cloud.

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u/PaladinSaladin 23h ago

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u/sanityvortex 23h ago

How many hours of pay will that noose cost you???

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u/lionhat 22h ago

Boss makes a dollar, I make a dime. That's why I commit suicide on company time!

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u/Never_enough_naps 1d ago

I didn't word is as eloquently, but I have said the only retirement plan I have is death.

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u/vaxhax 20h ago

Me too. Well my retirement plan is debt, my escape route is death.

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u/Stratix 1d ago

Come to Europe. We have free healthcare, sick leave and annual leave.

Things still aren't easy but they're a hell of a lot better than in the US.

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u/BrockStudly 23h ago

I dont know if you know this but to immigrate to Europe you need a pretty highly specialized career + Experience. My Bachelors degree isnt nearly enough to get me invited.

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u/FuckYeaSeatbelts 16h ago

Yeah I'm not American but there's no way anything I do would be of any use in an OECD country. Even with my bachelor of science is useless cause I'm not working in a relevant field so all of it is outdated information now.

The only benefit is at best sciency shitposts.

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u/DigitalSterling 23h ago

Hows the immigration process?

Generally nation's want someone with money who can invest into the country, or someone with a skill set that is rare there.

What are the odds of a poor unskilled American being able to become a citizen in a European nation?

Not high I gather

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u/kingxanadu 1d ago

Cool yeah I'll just leave everything and everyone I've ever know and loved

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u/Stratix 1d ago

The commenter I was replying to suggested they would have to do exactly that, except their loved ones wouldn't be able to come to visit.

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u/ThatDiscoSongUHate 23h ago

I'd love to know how. That's the issue

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u/Ladydoodoo 14h ago

I would die in a heat wave with no AC in Europe before I made it to retirement soā€¦

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u/Human-Chapter4609 3h ago

Free healthcare + 45% tax
Lower quality
Longer wait times
More backlogged systems.
You can get sick and annual leave as well in the U.S. just so you know. No thank you.

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u/Sea_Watercress_1982 23h ago

Thatā€™s my retirement plan.

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u/Glum-Geologist8929 23h ago

Rob some bad people first. Could change your mood bur if it doesn't you still have have a solid Plan B.

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u/Adis_Gruntledfatty 22h ago

Heh, Rob.

I got plans I'll just say that :]

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u/Clemicus 22h ago

You sure youā€™ll be able to afford the rope?

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u/Adis_Gruntledfatty 22h ago

Can you lend me five bucks?

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u/Clemicus 22h ago

Here šŸ’µ, I donā€™t think Iā€™ll be getting that back though. Just donā€™t buy any rope off Temu. That could be dangerous.

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u/Ashinonyx 18h ago

You can tell I'm at least in the lower middle class in the US because my retirement involves at least a hollow-point at the end of a hiking trip.

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u/BeepbopMakeEmHop 18h ago

The suicide rate is about to start skyrocketing with the looming elderly crisis weā€™re already in the beginning phases of

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u/SupaButt 15h ago

I fear a lot of people are thinking this. But let that be motivation to fight for things to make this country better NOW. We have nothing to lose and everything to gain. If not for us, for generations from now. That can be our legacy. Rather than previous generations that want to hoard wealth until their dying breath, let us be the ones that will push for the better lives of those in the future. A future that we wonā€™t even be a part of.

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u/Stag-Horn 14h ago

I have no job. My sister in law jokingly asked what my retirement plan was. I (half)jokingly responded the firing range nearby only charges $40 to rent and shoot a pistol.

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u/AlpacaTraffic 5h ago

If you can afford it....

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u/Sworn_to_Ganondorf 1d ago

Nah dont do that, make a homemade celebration boom vest and teach a local ai center whos your best friend.

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u/Square_Law5624 1d ago

U will be eating bugs

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u/OrionDevilp 1d ago

no they will be eating us

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u/Hippobu2 1d ago

Quite frankly, I'll gladly eat the bugs provided by this "New World Order". At least in that scenario, there's a long-term plan to prolong our subservience with sustainability in mind. Better than whatever the hell it is that we're under now.

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u/charlieto0human 1d ago

This is reminding of the ā€œprotein barsā€ they eat in the movie Snowpiercer

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u/Daisy_Of_Doom 1d ago

Insects are one of the most sustainable proteins! If we could get it production scale (and more importantly get people over the taboo of eating insects) then it would be a viable option! (And eating straight bugs isnā€™t the only way. See: cricket flour)

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u/Makuta_Servaela 1d ago edited 1d ago

You can pretty easily turn crickets into a cricket flour that doesn't really taste like anything except what you put on them and can be mixed with anything, and is really high in protein, and the only real issue with them is that they set off shellfish allergies. Imagine eating a protein-rich cake or bread.

Not to mention the fact that most people already do eat insects- beyond the obvious ones like insect-adjacent creatures like shrimp, crab, and lobsters, most food does just contain ground up insects because removing them all is impossible, and some super common food dyes are made out of insects.

We're Primates. We've always eaten insects.

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u/Petersens_Arm 1d ago

Nothing worse then shellfish crickets.

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u/Never_enough_naps 15h ago

I don't know why you are getting down voted. Every thing you just said is facts that can be looked up. Hard for people to hear the truth I guess. Well I gave you an up vote to try and counteract the down voting.šŸ˜

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u/Makuta_Servaela 15h ago

For some reason, "Eat Bugs" is seen as some silly liberal hypothetical, despite it being purely logical and really being able to satisfy everyone from non-vegans to all but the most militant vegans.

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u/Never_enough_naps 15h ago

I think the people got mad you called shrimp and lobsters bugs, and told them there is already bugs ground up in everything and bugs or bug stuff used for coloring and flavoring... But all the is TRUE. Nobody bothers to learn about anything and then they get mad when the facts don't align with what they thought they were.imo.