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    Oh wow that’s not even the US. 340 years, that’s cute.

    Elon Musk is estimated by Forbes at $227 billion (and there’s many more like Bezos and Zuck with only slightly less money). His annual pay is complicated, but if we divide that up by year since he entered the workforce in about 1995, it comes out to $7.8 billion/year.

    The average salary in the US is about $64,000. So to make what Elon (roughly) makes in a year, the average American worker would need to work about 122,000 years. By this time the constellations we currently observe in the night sky will be unrecognizable.

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    broke uneducated GOP are thoroughly indoctrinated to believe “illegals” are causing all their problems, without a single thought about the (also GOP) business owners who hire those illegals under the table, thus giving them a reason to come here in the first place

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      I can confirm, work for manufacturing, owners hire people for $16/hr contract (min wage where I am) no benefits through third parties (who get paid $32+/hr to hire them.) The workers overwhelmingly do not speak English. Many, MANY of the workers use stolen SSNs or their relatives SSNs for employment. Everyone including the owners who work here in the home office are open republicans with very few exceptions and they’ll all blame immigrants while themselves getting paid wayyyyy more than $16/hr.

      I have seen this firsthand. Same owners are going to be dropping 9 figures to acquire a subdivision of another very large company. The nepotism is fucking insane and many executives are skimming money and hiring friends and family for vendors. Private company swimming in cash with tons and tons of mismanaged projects and zero budgets.

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          It actually has an Instagram handle barely visible on the top poster and it works. I think this is real.

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            The metal plate has gibberish engraving. I don’t see why this would need faking because there was a recent boycott campaign against Loblaws grocery stores in Canada but I guess its just laziness. or camera’s built in AI upscaling

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              It’s not gibberish. Just shit job on the engraving. The info on the right matches the label on the left.

              Top is company, the long mostly gibberish looking one is the serial or id number.

              Can’t read | UVA Power

              Manufacturer | Tardiff Metal

              Date of manufacture | 2010

              O D | 10 3/4"

              Weight | 2200 LBS

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      Why would someone fake this? I’m honestly asking. If you wanted this and it didn’t exist you could just print out your own flyer and put it up and take a picture?

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      It isn’t fake. Maybe the words are pasted on or something but the warping and everything makes sense.

      The “gibberish” you’re seeing above is just leftover bits because these poles have years of poster bits left all over them.

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    I’m convinced the extreme inflation post-COVID was caused by greedy companies realizing that many working-class families had managed to save and build a nest-egg during quarantine, and that they could jack up prices on necessities to bleed them all dry.

    If inflation had been the result of wage growth increasing the price of labor, profit margins wouldn’t have soared they way they did.

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      I also think they got scared by the anti work movement and the way suddenly it was very hard to find employees, so they wanted to make it impossible for them not to.

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    Is this AI generated? The smaller text looks weird, and the text on that pillar plate looks… very odd indeed.

    It’s all…swimmy and mushy and gooey o.O

    Not that I’m disagreeing with sentiment, but if this isn’t AI generated then someone’s put it through some sort of AI filtering process, for some reason.