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If wages/salary are your primary/only source of income, you are not part of the wealthy class, even if it is $500k. Not even close.

Of course riding mowers are not common outside of the US.

North America really, they're everywhere in Canada as well

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Doing interviews when you know you have nothing on the line is a good way to practice, because you don't need to care if you do badly. Bonus is, you might end up getting an offer for something better :)

not even bro-dozer trucks, I have a un-modified (unless you count dents and rust) ~10y old pickup and a fairly new 'sporty' sedan (i.e. low-profile tires, stiff suspension, somewhat lower to the ground). Sedan has to come almost to a stop or I will scrape something. In the pickup slowing down is optional (though I do because regardless of speed bumps I don't want to hit someone)

Now it's Turkish delight on a moonlit night

yep, violent revolution rarely ends with better conditions for the people

Do what I do and stash an emergency bottle in the ol' prison wallet

Come join us on the QA side! I'm an automation developer, so it's my job to make things automated :)

It's a fiscally conservative position, where fiscally conservative is defined by someone who wants the government to spend less money and have a balanced budget.

Homeless people are a net burden on the government, even if the only costs are to arrest and imprison them. Since we are already paying to house them (in prison) it would make sense instead to give them a modest place to stay and enough support to get them back to a healthy state of living. This becomes a net financial benefit because a healthy employed person pays income tax, they buy stuff and pay sales tax, etc. so the money spent to get them back on their feet is repaid and then some.

The same thing happens again when the government offers free college or vocational training to people, the amount of taxes someone pays goes up with their income, and using the government as a single-payer to these schools will help keep costs low.

Case in point: in Ontario we had a program called Second Career (it still lives on as 'Better Jobs Ontario' but it's been hamstrung by the conservative government) which was funded through EI and would pay your tuition, books, supplies, and give a basic living allowance up to $28k per year if you qualify. It would cover any 2-year diploma program, with the caveat that if you failed out you would be on the hook to repay the tuition/books/supplies costs.

I did that program starting in 2009 and paid out-of-pocket (w/OSAP) for a third year to upgrade from Technician to Technologist. Prior to that, our household income was low enough that we effectively paid 0 income tax after deductions. After graduating, I tripled my income, and in the 11 or so years since I've doubled it again. For the ~$60k the government spent on me, they made that back in about the first 3 years after graduation and the rest has been profit from their perspective.

When I was a kid (80s-90s), we just wore a coloured pinny.

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