A jury has found a delivery driver not guilty in the shooting of a YouTube prankster who was following him around a mall food court earlier this year

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      1 year ago

      You’re right, my bad. I’d like to blame the bad math on it being early morning… But it’s just me being dumb.

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        1 year ago

        Don’t apologize, their math is wrong too. That might be their gross pay, but their take home is likely ~2/3 of that.

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          That’s fine. How would you expect anyone in a conversation like this to apply taxes? Which city, county and state are you going to use for those calculations?

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            1 year ago

            Are you purposely missing the point, or…? Seems like you’re just trying to argue for the sake of arguing.

            I’m good.

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      Well that’s not take home. They’d prob be taking home around 2/3 of that. So more like 1,300 at $12.50/hour if my quick math is right.

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          Huh? I’m just saying that someone making $12.50/hour, working 40 hours a week, isn’t taking home anything close to $2,000.

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            And neither is the youtuber which is exactly the point I was making. That theyre being a cunt to other people over what amounts to be a minimum wage job.

            Being a youtuber does not magically make you not subject to the exact same taxes that everyone else is. They are not taking home all of what they made any more than a mcdonalds worker does. In fact, being self employed means you are paying the other half of the medicare/social security tax not just half of it directly with most jobs.

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              Please look at usernames, I’m not the person you’re arguing with. I just corrected the person who said people who make $12.50/hr are making $2k a week because that’s absurd. That’s all.

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                1. I was the person you responded to. Check the username and:

                2. I did not say 2,000 a week. I said 2,000 a month.

                A youtuber making 2k a month is not taking home more money than someone making 2k a month at mcdonalds. They pay the same taxes. Actually the employer pays half of the social security/medicare tax while the self employed pay the entirety of it themselves.

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                  1 year ago

                  I meant month. Who fucking cares, you were wrong. I pointed it out. Be an adult. Accept it and move on.

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                    No I really wasnt. You dont understand how taxes work and are apparently under the impression that a youtuber that makes 2k before taxes is making more after taxes than a mcdonalds worker making 2k before taxes. Which isnt correct. And I have explained why that isn’t correct.

                    And as for the month/week thing, you made it an issue. You dont get to just “who cares” when youve been shown to be wrong trying to correct me.