aiglet12:

freedominwickedness:

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lecaptaindom:

Okay, saw this on my timeline and it absolutely infuriated me. My feelings on the military notwithstanding, lets take a look at some numbers. I’m about to drop some knowledge y'all.

This will be operating solely off of mcdonalds pay, other places will have different numbers. Also, a lot of this will be average prices and rents, obviously different situations. Also, feel free to correct my math.

An E1 in the military apparently makes 18 thousand a year. At current pay the average starting pay at Mcds, is 8 bucks an hour according to google, because it recently gave employees a ten percent raise. So, assuming that everything is perfect in lalaland, every mcds employee manages to get 40 hours a week every week(Which isn’t a thing that happens but lets assume) So, if an employee making 8 bucks an hour gets 40 hours a week, times four weeks in a month, times 12 months, then the math looks like 8x40x4x12, which equals out to 15360 a year.

Now, the average price for a two bedroom apartment is $650 a month, plus internet, cable, ect. average phone bill is about 100 bucks, average cable/internet is about 90. average electric is 90. So, that brings monthly bills to $930, not counting food. So the yearly cost of simply living in the united states is $11,160 Average grocery costs is an additional 6,443. So if we take those together, we end up with……..$17,603. what was the perfect yearly wage again? $15,360?

Now, an E1 in the military makes about 18k a year. Which is over the yearly costs as demonstrated by my previous math. However, if you subtract the 650 dollar rent and the 90 dollar electric bill, as the government pays for those if you live on base, then monthly bills for someone in the military is only 190 plus food, which if we take away 10% because of military discount, it ends up being 6003 dollars. SO, 130x12+6003 dollars ends up being. $7563. A YEAR That still leaves the military guy 11K TO SPEND. versus the mds worker who can’t even make enough to come out even?

Now, I’m no mathematician, but something here doesn’t match up.

And this is for a single person living alone, on perfect mcdonalds wage. Now, obviously this doesn’t account for two incomes, or kids, or people living in a single apartment, which usually costs less, and people who’s job doesn’t give them a perfect 40 hours, and I’m not going to go into things like car insurance, medical insurance, ect because that’s even more, but in general I think this makes my point.

Now, this thing says that if someone made 15 bucks an hour, they would make $31,200. I don’t know how they got that number, because 15x40 hours a weekx4 weeks a monthx12 months only adds up to 28800. So in order for someone to make 31 thousand a year they have to work over full time in order to get that much. which isn’t a thing that happens often.

Now if we have $28,800, and we subtract the $17,603, we end up with 11,197. Which If you notice, is about the same amount the military E1 had after expenses. Now, lets say that Mcds employee doesn’t “Deserve” to make enough to be equal to a member of the military. Fine, whatever,

My point still stands, that, its not just about yearly wages, people deserve to have enough to live off of, to be able to participate in the american economy, and to come out ahead, regardless of the job. So, i say to Jennifer Harris and anyone who agrees with this, how about you think beyond basic numbers before you say stupid things.

*mic Drop.

Why does this only have a few notes this is really fucking important

Please message this lady and ask her why she didn’t join the military, if it is the only respectable thing to do with ones life apparently

This also ignores the fact that the military doesn’t hire everyone. You have to be able-bodied in pretty much every way (there’s a few minor disabilities they allow), and you have to be both cis and dyadic – trans people are considered psychologically unfit, and intersex people are considered medically unfit.

I’m somewhat concerned that the line OP is taking here is “fast food workers are overpaid” and not “members of the armed forces are underpaid.”

Living wages for everyone!

I can’t believe this person missed the chance to say McDrop.