Seen the same bullshit when I worked retail. Nothing will convince them.
It’s easier to trick someone that it is to convince them they’re wrong.
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ragebutt@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 weeks ago
I used to be a supervisor at a psych hospital and had to regularly explain this to staff who were refusing overtime. They wanted to do it, sometimes desperately so because they needed the money, but they were utterly convinced that once they crossed 40 or 45k or whatever they would be taxed higher and make it all pointless. I felt like some just didn’t want to do ot, which was fine, but some legit keep meticulous records of their earnings to ensure they wouldn’t go over the line. I swore to them it didn’t work this way but they never believed me
thermal_shock@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone 4 weeks ago
I wonder how different the planet would be if boomers had just been taught, from an early age, that it’s OK to be wrong.
thermal_shock@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
I remember my mom saying something like “don’t believe what you see on tv and only half of what you read.” Yet here we are.
prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone 4 weeks ago
Yeah, I remember my parents teaching me a whole lot of shit that Fox News would call “woke” today.
IDKWhatUsernametoPutHereLolol@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 weeks ago
My mom told me “these white people will never see you as an American”
Now she’s blaming democrats for “Migrant crisis”
🤦♂️
hansolo@lemm.ee 4 weeks ago
Short of doing a demo with rolls of change or MnMs or something, asking people to conceptualize math that is not just simple addition is often asking too much. Especially when people’s financial literacy is learned at home from people who retired in 1996.
thermal_shock@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
Well look where we are, trump loves the uneducated, they got his thieving rapist ass elected.
KillingTimeItself@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 weeks ago
every day, my theory that people are just willfully retarded gets proven more and more correct. Even with the tools at the disposal of the modern internet savvy person, nobody tries ANYTHING to verify ANYTHING.
It’s actually so fucking depressing and i think humanity is joever at this point. I’m not sure how you recover from this point effectively.
ragebutt@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 weeks ago
I mean in defense of these staff: many of them were not amazingly well educated and were pulling 80-96 hour weeks pretty regularly to earn a livable wage. When were they supposed to do this research?
KillingTimeItself@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 weeks ago
whenever they have to time to do normal people shit? Even slow learning is better than no learning, you can learn a lot over a long period of time if you keep at it regularly.
Perhaps maybe they should spend less time watching their favorite political sock puppets talk about politics, and spend more time actually learning about shit that’s important and matters. Or maybe instead of yelling at people online about their political views, they could spend that time educating themselves instead. Just a proposal.
ragebutt@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 weeks ago
I don’t know what demographic you think these people were. They were by and large African immigrants. It’s weird that you’ve created this boogeyman version of them in your head though
They would make stuff like jollof rice and share it with everyone. Super nice people. The only politics they ever brought up was one guy I got to know well would talk a lot about how the elections in the Congo at the time (2010ish) were rigged and the leader at the time was concentrating his power; that war was inevitable if someone did not intervene. He apparently was right because the m23 has been going off there, though admittedly I don’t know the full scale of the situation
OccultIconoclast@reddthat.com 4 weeks ago
Should print out a poster infographic explaining progressive taxation and put it up on the wall in the break room
kameecoding@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
Yeah I am pretty sure they wouldn’t understand this either
Feathercrown@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
This infographic is kinda bad and would not convince someone who doesn’t know how it works at all
jj4211@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
Would have to be mandated by workplace regulations, no company is going to voluntarily educate their employees that more money has no downside.
I’ll also say this doesn’t help, it strangely avoids the actual numbers. It should state explicitly that his total taxes would be $1,600+$4,266+$2,827=$8692, and not $13200. Needs to include the scenarios specific results and contrasted with what the viewer would have assumed otherwise.
AA5B@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
But you have to keep it going to highlight how much wealthier people pay (although that’s tougher since their income is not “income”). Maybe throw in a few examples of the wealthiest Americans and wha recent age they pay, to not only clarify it, but retarget their anger where it belongs