Nonono, the price of everything goes up first, and then you get a pay raise that doesn't even cover the inflation rate even though unions are a thing in your country and you were literally striking.
I've had an exceptional performance pay rise, as well as a promotion pay rise in the job I started 3 years ago. My salary is now only 5k behind where it should be if it has kept up with inflation
as a normal and functioning person, i prefer liberty over capitalism (since the latter always eventually seeks to silence those who strive for labour rights).
just ask anarchist and council communists, they want a society without greed and without authoritarianism. e.g. through decentralisation, unionisation, and fully worker-owned co-operatives.
That is: a workplace without greedy CEOs. and also ideally, a gift economy wherein abundant and rationed by need wherein non-abundant.
It saddens me to hear that stigma. For authoritarian forms I can understand, but for liberationist forms, it's a pity. We need to overcome that stigma imposed by red and cash fascists.
Lol, as well as all the groceries going up in price, my rat fuck landlord upped the rent by $130USD per month.
I had to push back on my employer at my annual review and ask for a bigger raise. I got the bigger raise. It still leaves me about $8 worse off just in terms of the rent per month.
I think its crazy that there are places where you just randomly, for no reason, get the rent of your current residence increased on you. I feel like that alone should tell you the priorities of your current and past governments.
It's not for "no reason" buddy. How else is my landlord and their family gonna eat if I don't put food on their table?
And they deserve the very best, and they know I definitely can't afford to buy that for them (as much as I would love to), which is why they kindly and cleverly have put together a grassroots community effort and in a way "crowdfunded" their own lavish lifestyle by purchasing literally dozens of properties and jacking up the rent every year by hundreds of dollars a month. It's all a community thing!
They live in a mansion. I've seen their house. They have a fucking pool.
the reason the rent goes up is because costs go up. taxes go up, fees go up, and demand goes up.
bitch all you want about rent goign up, truth is if you aren't willing to pay it then someone else is. you may think 1600 is expensive... i bet you 20 other people moving into your city/town thing it's cheap.
my last apartment i paid an extra months rent to beat out the other people who wanted it.
It's like in a video game where you unlock new skills and weapons but the enemies health increases too. It's fine once you've done a couple runs and know the best way to optimise the effectiveness of your build, but you only get one shot at life :(
I told my boss that if I couldn't get a raise then I'd have to quit. I go in to quit two weeks later and this fool goes " I gave you a raise, what more do you want" I said how much? He goes 89 cents, I didn't tell you cause I wanted it to be a surprise" and I get quit right then lol
Isn't this incorrect?
I always heard that, and then somebody told me no, you pay taxes on what you make up to the first bracket, based on the first bracket, then whatever you make after that you pay taxes on in the second bracket, up to the limit, etc
So yes youn pay more for what you're making above that, but you're still making more overall? You don't actually go backwards. I think.
Except for like assistance and stuff. That's all messed up. If you make just enough to get above the poverty line and lose Medicaid or snap or whatever, then you end up paying so much extra you go backwards as far as available funds. They've got the screws so tight, it actually makes more sense to manufacture ways to make less money, so you can stay just under the line. The gap is too big between needing assistance and being sufficient, you can't get from one to the other. At least that's what I've heard.
It just happened to me
Your first say 10k is taxed in the 10k bracket but the rest it taxed in the next bracket and that percentage is higher than the 10k bracket. And then you don’t qualify for lower cost health insurance so you pay more and end up with less
Stupidity of the US health “system” aside, there is never a situation where a pay raise “spilling over” to the next tax bracket leaves you in a worse position in terms of take home pay.
That doesn't have anything to do with tax brackets, though.
The solution to assistance services is to have a scale where assistance is backed off slowly until it goes to zero, not have this cliff where you make $1 more than the maximum and you get nothing.
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rumschlumpel@feddit.org · 79 pts · 290d
Nonono, the price of everything goes up first, and then you get a pay raise that doesn't even cover the inflation rate even though unions are a thing in your country and you were literally striking.
ugo@feddit.it · 8 pts · 290d
some_kind_of_guy@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 290d
Right? Falling behind is so 2022. Trying desperately to catch up is the new way.
LordOfLocksley@lemmy.world · 46 pts · 290d
I've had an exceptional performance pay rise, as well as a promotion pay rise in the job I started 3 years ago. My salary is now only 5k behind where it should be if it has kept up with inflation
birdwing@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 9 pts · 290d
And this is why it's important to vote for socialist and communist parties, folks. They actually fight for your labour rights!
pewgar_seemsimandroid@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 3 pts · 290d
aint any normal and functioning person trying yo vote a communist party here in Estonia. pretty sure SDE is the most left-wing party.
birdwing@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 4 pts · 290d
as a normal and functioning person, i prefer liberty over capitalism (since the latter always eventually seeks to silence those who strive for labour rights).
just ask anarchist and council communists, they want a society without greed and without authoritarianism. e.g. through decentralisation, unionisation, and fully worker-owned co-operatives.
That is: a workplace without greedy CEOs. and also ideally, a gift economy wherein abundant and rationed by need wherein non-abundant.
pewgar_seemsimandroid@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 1 pts · 287d
Communism has a horrible reputation in Estonia that cannot be changed.
birdwing@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 2 pts · 287d
Specifically, stalinism and marxism-leninism.
I'm not so sure it would have that reputation for anarchocommunism.
pewgar_seemsimandroid@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 1 pts · 286d
it would, it's attached to communism and has it in it's name.
birdwing@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 2 pts · 286d
It saddens me to hear that stigma. For authoritarian forms I can understand, but for liberationist forms, it's a pity. We need to overcome that stigma imposed by red and cash fascists.
rayquetzalcoatl@lemmy.world · 32 pts · 290d
Lol, as well as all the groceries going up in price, my rat fuck landlord upped the rent by $130USD per month.
I had to push back on my employer at my annual review and ask for a bigger raise. I got the bigger raise. It still leaves me about $8 worse off just in terms of the rent per month.
What a stupid, stupid fucking system.
reev@sh.itjust.works · 11 pts · 290d
I think its crazy that there are places where you just randomly, for no reason, get the rent of your current residence increased on you. I feel like that alone should tell you the priorities of your current and past governments.
rayquetzalcoatl@lemmy.world · 7 pts · 290d
It's not for "no reason" buddy. How else is my landlord and their family gonna eat if I don't put food on their table?
And they deserve the very best, and they know I definitely can't afford to buy that for them (as much as I would love to), which is why they kindly and cleverly have put together a grassroots community effort and in a way "crowdfunded" their own lavish lifestyle by purchasing literally dozens of properties and jacking up the rent every year by hundreds of dollars a month. It's all a community thing!
They live in a mansion. I've seen their house. They have a fucking pool.
TubularTittyFrog@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 285d
the reason the rent goes up is because costs go up. taxes go up, fees go up, and demand goes up.
bitch all you want about rent goign up, truth is if you aren't willing to pay it then someone else is. you may think 1600 is expensive... i bet you 20 other people moving into your city/town thing it's cheap.
my last apartment i paid an extra months rent to beat out the other people who wanted it.
imetators@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 18 pts · 290d
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slazer2au@lemmy.world · 15 pts · 290d
Unless the pay was greater then inflation you had a pay cut.
RickyRigatoni@retrolemmy.com · 13 pts · 290d
You guys get pay raises?
protogen420@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 4 pts · 290d
you guys get paid?
RickyRigatoni@retrolemmy.com · 2 pts · 290d
AI don't need to be paid, silly toaster.
protogen420@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 3 pts · 289d
meanie :(
HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 289d
last two times i got paid in tacos. worth it.
Pistcow@lemmy.world · 12 pts · 290d
I got a 2% pay raise then got a letter saying that I'm in a new payscale and my insurance would go up.
relativestranger@feddit.nl · 3 pts · 290d
fuck those clowns. "paying" for your raise by reducing the employer share of the premium.
Pistcow@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 289d
I got the new insurance cost today, nothing changed from last year so this is a payscale factor and it the difference in cost is 1% of that 2% raise.
Soooo i got a 1% raise for 2025. I work for one of the largest companies in the world as an engineer.
technocrit@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 10 pts · 290d
100%. I get news about my yearly raise around the same time as my landlord raises my rent each year.
The percentage raise in rent is about 3x larger than the percentage raise in wages. Every year.
Fleur_@lemmynsfw.com · 10 pts · 290d
It's like in a video game where you unlock new skills and weapons but the enemies health increases too. It's fine once you've done a couple runs and know the best way to optimise the effectiveness of your build, but you only get one shot at life :(
Kolanaki@pawb.social · 7 pts · 289d
Hmmm... This gives me an idea.
takes a pay cut
prices increase
Fuck!
sfxrlz@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 7 pts · 290d
Why is that Posted on the political incorrectness board
trashgirlfriend@lemmy.world · 10 pts · 290d
Its just the politics board but its called politically incorrect
LH0ezVT@sh.itjust.works · 1 pts · 290d
Yeah, too relatable and not enough crazy racism for pol, I am disappointed.
relativestranger@feddit.nl · 5 pts · 290d
the greedy landlords can sniff it out too.
get a raise.. or even just a tax refund check or one-time 'credit' (like the 'stimulus' shit), rent goes up at home.
business has decent quarter, rent goes up there, too.
it's basically a guarantee. if you have money, they want it all
InvalidName2@lemmy.zip · 5 pts · 290d
But you see, the price of eggs has dropped in the past several months so it all balances out.
Blackmist@feddit.uk · 5 pts · 290d
Look at Mr Show Off over here with his fancy fuckin' pay rise.
tkk13909@sopuli.xyz · 3 pts · 290d
Dorkyd68@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 286d
I told my boss that if I couldn't get a raise then I'd have to quit. I go in to quit two weeks later and this fool goes " I gave you a raise, what more do you want" I said how much? He goes 89 cents, I didn't tell you cause I wanted it to be a surprise" and I get quit right then lol
ieatpwns@lemmy.world · -4 pts · 290d
The best part is being in the bottom of the next bracket so your pay raise is actually a pay low
hereiamagain@sh.itjust.works · 11 pts · 290d
Isn't this incorrect? I always heard that, and then somebody told me no, you pay taxes on what you make up to the first bracket, based on the first bracket, then whatever you make after that you pay taxes on in the second bracket, up to the limit, etc
So yes youn pay more for what you're making above that, but you're still making more overall? You don't actually go backwards. I think.
Except for like assistance and stuff. That's all messed up. If you make just enough to get above the poverty line and lose Medicaid or snap or whatever, then you end up paying so much extra you go backwards as far as available funds. They've got the screws so tight, it actually makes more sense to manufacture ways to make less money, so you can stay just under the line. The gap is too big between needing assistance and being sufficient, you can't get from one to the other. At least that's what I've heard.
I'm in the US btw.
ieatpwns@lemmy.world · 0 pts · 290d
It just happened to me Your first say 10k is taxed in the 10k bracket but the rest it taxed in the next bracket and that percentage is higher than the 10k bracket. And then you don’t qualify for lower cost health insurance so you pay more and end up with less
Also US
knova@infosec.pub · 6 pts · 290d
Stupidity of the US health “system” aside, there is never a situation where a pay raise “spilling over” to the next tax bracket leaves you in a worse position in terms of take home pay.
ieatpwns@lemmy.world · -1 pts · 290d
The us health system is intrinsic to the US which is my experience though
frezik@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 5 pts · 290d
That doesn't have anything to do with tax brackets, though.
The solution to assistance services is to have a scale where assistance is backed off slowly until it goes to zero, not have this cliff where you make $1 more than the maximum and you get nothing.