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[-] wheezy@lemmy.ml 24 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

And tiny Tim's illness didn't give his family medical bankruptcy forcing them to lose their form of shelter.

[-] HiddenLayer555@lemmy.ml 19 points 3 days ago

To be fair, I doubt those ghosts would even bother trying to convince a modern CEO. They'd go straight to the graveyard scene and bury them alive.

[-] Ildsaye@hexbear.net 5 points 2 days ago

All three would look like this: socialism-spectre socialism-spectre socialism-spectre

[-] atomicbocks@sh.itjust.works 3 points 3 days ago

Scrooged was a fun movie though.

[-] kibiz0r@midwest.social 14 points 3 days ago

And It’s A Wonderful Life saying in 1946:

Do you know how long it takes a working man to save $5,000?

[-] eldavi@lemmy.ml 4 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

it's not at all possible for roughly 2/3rds of americans since they live paycheck to paycheck.

growing up in a home like that really makes you REALLY appreciate having $5k in the bank.

[-] Grandwolf319@sh.itjust.works 9 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

Converts it to CAD and looks up Canadian min wage

Oh my god….

To be fair though, Nunavut’s min wage is technically higher

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