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Microblog Memes

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A place to share screenshots of Microblog posts, whether from Mastodon, tumblr, ~~Twitter~~ X, KBin, Threads or elsewhere.

Created as an evolution of White People Twitter and other tweet-capture subreddits.

RULES:

  1. Your post must be a screen capture of a microblog-type post that includes the UI of the site it came from, preferably also including the avatar and username of the original poster. Including relevant comments made to the original post is encouraged.
  2. Your post, included comments, or your title/comment should include some kind of commentary or remark on the subject of the screen capture. Your title must include at least one word relevant to your post.
  3. You are encouraged to provide a link back to the source of your screen capture in the body of your post.
  4. Current politics and news are allowed, but discouraged. There MUST be some kind of human commentary/reaction included (either by the original poster or you). Just news articles or headlines will be deleted.
  5. Doctored posts/images and AI are allowed, but discouraged. You MUST indicate this in your post (even if you didn't originally know). If an image is found to be fabricated or edited in any way and it is not properly labeled, it will be deleted.
  6. Absolutely no NSFL content.
  7. Be nice. Don't take anything personally. Take political debates to the appropriate communities. Take personal disagreements & arguments to private messages.
  8. No advertising, brand promotion, or guerrilla marketing.

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[–] Phil_in_here@lemmy.ca 2 points 4 days ago

You're not sure what my point is? My point is that for most Americans they pay more and get less.

30% of American workers earn less than $12 and hour. Compare that to only 9% of Canadians working their minimum wage of ~$12.60 USD.

So a third of Americans are earning less than the absolute minimum earnings of a Canadian, and from that they are paying a comparable federal tax rate, but have to pay for health insurance and out of pocket copay to even see a doctor.

That's just the people up to the threshold of the minimum Canadians make. Nearly half of US workers earn less than $15/ hour, so not much more. Less than 20% of Canadians make that little.

Most Americans are paid less, pay the same taxes, get no healthcare in return, but have to pay for private insurance AND still have to pay out of pocket for any medical visit.