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TranscriptA tweet saying "100k a year to take someone's order at Taco Bell . Totally makes sense.". It has a reply saying "Where the hell did you get that number? If someone's working enough hours to make that on $15 an hour, they deserve it. $15 an hour, a person working 40 a week makes $31,200 a year." the reply has 2 likes.

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[-] Dagwood222@lemm.ee 22 points 2 weeks ago

Hunter Thompson wrote "Hell's Angels" in 1967.

At the time, he gave examples of how hippies/bikers/artists were living.

A biker could get a job as a Union stevedore and earn enough in six months to hit the road for two years.

A part time waitress could afford to support her live-in boy friend.

Then Nixon/Reagan saved the middle class....

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