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Public-Lemon-1218 t1_j9mn0ny wrote

Reply to [OC] I asked Georgians (U.S.) if they learned in school about the 1912 racial cleansing in Forsyth County (GA), only 11% of respondents were taught this. by JPAnalyst

A good deeper dive into the data would be education level it was taught and county of the respondent. I wouldn’t want to assume without data but my hunch is they learned this in a college/university history course.

I did not learn of this during school in the 90s, nor was I taught about the race riots in 1906. Interesting when Georgia History is required in 8th grade. But my Georgia History course for my Education degree did cover these topics.

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value_bet t1_j9mldfe wrote

Reply to Wealthy Percentiles Rising by dwaxe

This chart is based on income. I’m not particularly worried about some doctor making $400k per year. I consider “wealthy” to be those who earn money without having a traditional income.

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gland10 t1_j9mlde9 wrote

Reply to comment by nicholasf21677 in [OC] My sophomore year internship search by UglyDODO

Fire engineer at a place i used to work is unpaid, they follow a permanent employee around for 6 weeks because they can't actually do any work. Civil internship is similar and also unpaid. Engineering internships for local small city government I did was also unpaid. Most don't budget for paying interns and if they do, then the intern got lucky.

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Techutante t1_j9mfr9m wrote

Reply to comment by Acrobatic-Echidna-61 in [OC] Percent of American teens with a driver’s license by year by worriedshuffle

Naw. She's 40. Some people just don't have reflexes for driving and know it. Some people do it anyway and those are the people you see who get 30 fender benders. Also by not driving she saves us probably 10 grand a year in insurance, gas, and auto maintenance. We live in a small town anyway, so driving is pretty much unimportant.

My dad did say that I would be a taxi for the rest of my life when I told him she didn't drive, but also he married someone 30 years younger than him to be his nurse maid for the rest of his life, so he's a bit of a hypocrite.

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Theforgottendwarf t1_j9m747o wrote

Reply to comment by goodluckonyourexams in [OC] How Walmart makes money (they just released earnings for the fiscal year ending January 31) by IncomeStatementGuy

For every $1.00 you spend at Walmart you pay $0.075 generally in sales tax. Mom and pops, small businesses historically hide some transactions as cash. As well Walmart hires a great mix of skilled/unskilled labor which helps boost the local economies. This is why local/state governments “sponsor” walmart, giving them great subsidies and have no issues with employees on welfare. Because they know many of those employees wouldn’t make it elsewhere.

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jubilant-barter t1_j9m2eod wrote

Reply to comment by No-Sleep2378 in Wealthy Percentiles Rising by dwaxe

Oh, no I know.

But when you have conversation about taxes, one of the ways people try to convince everyone that rich people shouldn't have to pay taxes, is an aggressive cherry-picking of the data. It's on purpose, and it's deceptive.

For example, they'll pick 2020, which was peak covid relief, and a massive outlier. They'll focus on income, because it reinforces their point.

Like, covid relief is over, the Trump tax cuts just expired (hiking taxes on lower income Americans), and inflation is going gangbusters on cost of living.

So liiiiiiiike... we can't ignore this stuff.

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