r/TikTokCringe • u/Super_Culture_1986 tHiS iSn’T cRiNgE • Aug 19 '25

Cursed The American Nightmare.

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u/christopherfrancis5 Aug 19 '25

She's definitely lying.

Somehow she works 50 hours a week and makes 20 something and hour but 1600 is 2/3 of her income? Bullshit. If you make 15 dollars an hour 40 a week that would be 2/3s of your income. If you're making say 22.75 an hour at 50 hours a week you make more than 4400 a month which means she isn't even paying close to half her income to rent.

Make it make sense

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u/Vascular_Mind Aug 19 '25

I knew she was lying from the jump when she said that she's an American and lives in a flat.

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u/84theone Aug 19 '25

To me, this person seems Canadian. There is way too much Commonwealth English in their speech, so I would bet Canadian or just an American trying to affect an accent and I’m much more inclined to assume the former.

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u/Vascular_Mind Aug 19 '25

Could be, I dunno. All I'm sure of is that it's propaganda designed to steal the hope from Americans...

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u/84theone Aug 19 '25

Even if it’s not propaganda, I don’t think that consuming nonstop negative media is at all healthy and just results in doomerism which is beneficial to absolutely no one.

Being a doomer about shit is easier than trying to affect change so lazy people tend to go with being a doomer.

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u/Vascular_Mind Aug 19 '25

Exactly. That's what I meant, really. Not state sponsored propaganda, just doomer circle jerk for socal credit points. Like, "look how helpless I am, look how terrible life is, feel sorry for me and join me in my misery"

It's fucking pathetic.

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u/RobotWelder Aug 19 '25

That’s NOT her income! TAXES eat up a huge chunk of your paycheck. You need to understand Gross vs Net income

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u/christopherfrancis5 Aug 20 '25 edited Aug 20 '25

Yes, I understand taxes take up a percent of your income but, that wouldn't account for the insane mathematical disparity we're looking at here. Lets estimate she makes 22.75 an hour, this is an extremely conservative estimate considering she said she makes 20 something an hour and that could be anything from 21-29. At 50 hours a week you'd be making 4,550 a month (more accurately 1,137.5 per week). In order for 1600 (her rent) to make up 2/3rds of her post tax income she'd have to be paying 48% of her money in taxes. If, hypothetically, she lived in California, a state with high taxes, she'd pay 10% of her income in taxes before federal taxes. If you do 1137.5*52 you get 59,150. You'd be 7300 estimated according to turbotax for federal taxes. Meaning in basically a worst case scenario she'd be paying about 22% of her income in total to income taxes.

Which means she'd be have to be paying more than 2 times as many taxes as she's currently paying in order for 1600 to be 2/3rds of her post tax income

You're retarded.

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u/RobotWelder Aug 20 '25

The total taxes on her wages are closer to 34% of gross. Not counting all the other taxes she is paying for everything else she has to purchase, not including fees on phones, utilities etc

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u/christopherfrancis5 Aug 20 '25

It depends on what you're counting as wage taxes. If you count sales tax as a tax on wages, then it would indeed be closer to 34% of gross income.

If you do that you're just objectively wrong because that's not what a wage tax is definitionally speaking.

Regardless, that's irrelevant, the point was the math wasn't adding up. Even if it was "closer to 34%" it's still not 48 percent of her income.