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  Chipotle says employees can make $100,000 after just 3 years on the job

  by Iamallcool in

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  2. friends

  https://www.cnn.com/2021/05/10/business/chipotle-wage-increase/index.html .

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  @GrreatTeacher: I have a 2-family ~3000 sq ft house with 6 bedrooms, 3 bathrooms and an acre of land. I pay $1200 in mortgage + taxes.

  $2000/month? Minimum wage does not entitle you to a mansion or live in a penthouse apartment somewhere. Neither do you need to live downtown SF or NYC, move out to somewhere cheaper, there are currently 8M job openings in the US.

  The "sweet spot" where you make too much for help and not enough to live on is ~$44000. I've lived through the range of incomes, even then, my girlfriend got pregnant and we got $1200/month in food checks - for 2 people with a then-combined income of ~$100k - yeah, that was a LOT of food given out to family and friends.
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  400 Rockets Hit Israel

  by minimus in

  1. jw
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  israel retaliated and some are accusing israel of an “act of terrorism”.

  evidently these rockets are trying to get to tel aviv but the dome is getting overwhelmed.. i wonder if the usa and other nations will come to israel’s defense..

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  @joey jojo: That is not at all true. The Temple Mount is controlled by the Palestinians, the most holy site for Jews and the third most holy site for Muslims. If this were a religious conflict, don't you think the Israeli government would've just occupied all the holy places which Hamas is currently using as a platform to attack Israel?

  Israel is a very moderated relatively non-religious state, Arabs are in the high courts, in the government in Israel, how many Jews are in positions of government in Iran or Gaza?

  Israel did not displace Arabs, the other way around happened in the early 20th century and later wars, Iran and Jordan tried to populate the area after Israel changed desert into fertile ground. Israel won all those wars, they have the right to the land, but gave it up to Arab immigrants anyway, who in turn burned the greenhouses and farms to the ground and continue to complain. You are free to live in Israel as an Arab, there is no religious suppression there, but the Iranians want to turn it into a Muslim state.

  Off course Amnesty International, the UN and a left-wing US government have always supported anti-semitism, but you have to realize, if the Muslims got their way, the Jews would be no more. Giving them a finger doesn't work, they're a lot like JW's in that way.
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  Chipotle says employees can make $100,000 after just 3 years on the job

  by Iamallcool in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  https://www.cnn.com/2021/05/10/business/chipotle-wage-increase/index.html .

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  @GreatTeacher:

  What are you buying to not have $15/h be enough? $15 at a regular 9-5 full-time job is $30,000/y in straight cash (as those wages enjoy negative tax rates) and with government subsidies roughly a $3000/month net income.

  Rent: $500-700 (~1/2 of that paid for by government)

  Car payment: $200-300 (I've paid that amount for a luxury sedan and a mid-size suv)

  Insurance: $0 (paid for by government)

  Health care: $0 (paid for by government)

  Cell phone plan: $0 (paid for by government)

  Public transportation: $0 (paid for by government)

  Food: $500/month ($500 paid for by government)
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  Panic buying of gas and price gouging

  by mynameislame in

  1. social
  2. current

  the news had mentioned how some stations were charging over $6 a gallon for gas.

  they also brought up that the government had promised to come down hard on anyone that was price gouging.. my question is, is it possible to price gouge when there isn't an actual emergency?.

  i think there are some benefits to raising prices even in an emergency.

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  It is possible to increase prices whenever demand outstrips supply. That's not really price gouging, it's just the market doing its job to decrease demand. At $6/gallon, fewer people will be buying gas. If the government artificially reduces that cost, the government (read: tax payers) are making up the difference somewhere else.

  Government does not produce anything, so it cannot increase or decrease prices on anything, if it does so, it must do this by taking money from one pot and putting it in the other (robbing Peter to pay Paul).

  Biden reversed a lot of the cybersecurity policies Trump had set in place. According to the gas line company, they had funds and were looking to hire a CISO (Chief Information Security Officer) until ~3 months ago, operating cost increases suddenly made this cost prohibitive and the DHS dropped those requirements. I wonder what happened ~3 months ago - oh right, Biden increased taxes and regulation on our aging oil and gas infrastructure in order to fund his pie-in-the-sky green new deal and reversed all Trump regulation because "orange man bad"

  I work in IT security, the first post to start cutting cost is always IT security and regulation compliance. As the price of oil artificially increases through carbon taxes, we'll see a lot more of that.
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  400 Rockets Hit Israel

  by minimus in

  1. jw
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  israel retaliated and some are accusing israel of an “act of terrorism”.

  evidently these rockets are trying to get to tel aviv but the dome is getting overwhelmed.. i wonder if the usa and other nations will come to israel’s defense..

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  @joey: you should really read up on a bit of history. Israel is the only place where Arabs and Jews in the region live together. Gaza Strip, Iran, Jordan, Egypt, all places where Jews get murdered. Jews and Arabs have lived in that area for thousands of years, but the Jew hatred has been exacerbated during and after the Second World War, when Muslim extremists came to power in the region, helped by Hitler and Russia.
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  Chipotle says employees can make $100,000 after just 3 years on the job

  by Iamallcool in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  https://www.cnn.com/2021/05/10/business/chipotle-wage-increase/index.html .

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  That’s not entirely uncommon for high end managers and regional managers of fast food places, especially as they get bonuses and profit sharing. I knew a girl once that was a Radio Shack manager that made a ton of money too, I couldn’t believe how much a good sales month would bring in bonuses.

  Waitresses made an average of $50k before the pandemic between a $12/h average taxable wage and an average of $13/h untaxed tips (which quite honestly I can’t believe is that low as doing 6 tables/hour should give you ~$50 around here)

  Good employees deserve to be payed well. The problem recently however is that the government handouts have killed the job market. Why go to work when between unemployment and other poverty benefits you effectively make $45k/y doing nothing at home. This is driving the cost of commodities up as people need to be paid effectively $25/h or more for ANY job, even the low-end simplest jobs.
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  I am still not able to solve this God's name paradox...

  by psyco in

  1. watchtower
  2. bible

  i am finishing to read the entire bible (nwt 2013) for my first time (my fault) and i wrote down hundreds, maybe thousands, of questions not clear to me, but one especially came in my mind meditating on god's name.. if i wanted to summarize the entire bible in one phrase i would say (even before the kingdom): god’s name sanctification.. god is jealous about his name.

  he does everything for the love of his name, and he wants to be called and prayed using his name.

  no doubt about all this (repeated several times in the bible), but it involves the pronunciation of his name.. god left us his name in the form of יהוה which is unpronounceable.

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  Well the interpretation that god cares about his name is very JW-centric. The JWs added the name in a ton of places where they interpreted it should be but no extant texts do have it in those places. Not because it was removed, but because the writers never put it there.

  The first few books of the Bible would have no knowledge of a named god as Judaism hadn’t yet formulated, thus you would see more proto-names which is believed to be Yahweh Asher Yahweh, which is not a name but more along the lines of a royal title of the deity and by the time the later books came around, most Jewish sects would’ve stopped using it already. So yes, you would see shortened versions like Yahweh as a “name” in some places in the Bible (around Kings and Psalms) but it would quickly disappear after the diaspora (the prophets).

  By the first century CE the Jews would not have used the name at all and Jesus and most early Christians being a Jew and all wouldn’t have either, else you’d be seeing that debate all over the biblical texts.
  

  The name Jehovah is anglicized, if god cared about his name, surely he would want his “witnesses” to pronounce it correctly and thus it would be “Yahweh Asher Yahweh’s Witnesses“ for the earliest “name” and Yahweh is the closest to what we know it used to sound like but that would also make them sound like some Rastafarian.
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  Significant Changes Happening - Even Though Many May Not Realize

  by JWTom in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  i posted this item a few weeks ago (link below) with a compilation of items that could happen as the organization unravels - even though many (including myself) may find it unlikely, improbable or simply too much of a change to believe.. https://www.jehovahs-witness.com/topic/5165806634663936/drastic-upcoming-changes-accelerated-pandemic.

  as an active pimo though, i came up with the list in the above post simply from the standpoint that very significant changes have been occurring on an ongoing basis and sometimes i think even very active witnesses do not realize it.

  a few major items that have been ongoing or were singular events listed below.

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  Remember when conventions were 5 day events that went from like 9am to 4pm. I heard they just had the circuit assembly, 1 day over Zoom, down from 2 days, basically pre-recorded speeches. No need to go to multiple conventions to hear the same points from different speakers.
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  400 Rockets Hit Israel

  by minimus in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  israel retaliated and some are accusing israel of an “act of terrorism”.

  evidently these rockets are trying to get to tel aviv but the dome is getting overwhelmed.. i wonder if the usa and other nations will come to israel’s defense..

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  Iran is just testing how far it can push the Americans this time. Israel seems to be readying for an invasion of Gaza though, guess they have enough of supporting a ton of freeloaders.
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  U.S. Announcement at CLAM w/o March 3 - Donation of Trailers Needed

  by JWTom in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  at our clam meeting this past week there was a rather lengthy announcement asking for the donation of travel trailers.

  needed to be at least 22 feet long and not older than a 2005 model year.

  lots of other details were in the announcement about what was desired related condition of the trailer, etc.

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  They've long asked for donations of cars and other vehicles. Travel trailers (which classifies as an RV) are one of those things that stood out to you, but is just part of the 'acceptable donations' in these cases (as ar motorcycles and boats, but I'm sure they don't want to send that message you should even have a boat/motorcycle). Trust me, you won't see the CO traveling in your '97 Chevy Blazer and a patched up trailer in tow (that was maybe a special pioneer in the 50s).

  What they basically do with those cars, as does cars-for-kids etc is sell them to either dealerships or junkyards and collect the profit. The reason they set a limit on the age of the vehicle is because at some point it's just junk and it costs them more to pick it up and deliver to the junkyard than it would bring in profit. The junkyard isn't going to give you much for older used RV's as they are primarily plastic and not a good source of metal unlike cars. Junkyards will pay a little bit for modern ones because there is still a market for parts.

  For construction sites, you have special style construction trailer which are rented by the regional building committees. The WTBTS has a deal with the rental companies so they get a small chunk of the rebates, they also don't want to deal with patching up an old trailer or the liability/insurance for that (any cost would be a sunk, unrecoverable cost after the project).