Why do people not want to work?

[3Ts]

me too - and I have an 18 year old son just graduated HS - $10-12/hour? UNION work here pays $15. Still not enough to live on.

Maybe wages will rise...

$15/hr is not enough? That's 30,000 per year. There are folks raising families on about that out here. Granted, they have to be very careful with their money and if they hit a bump in the road it causes a problem. Churches are very supportive out here as well, they all look after each other.

 

[two_bit_score]

My first job in a grocery store paid less than $1 an hour. I don't recall how much exactly but I definitely remember getting a 25 cents an hour raise because it seemed like it was huge.



Buc-ee’s: The Path to World Domination – Texas Monthly


That is one of my favorite articles.



TBS

 

[goeduck]

$15/hr is not enough? That's 30,000 per year. There are folks raising families on about that out here. Granted, they have to be very careful with their money and if they hit a bump in the road it causes a problem. Churches are very supportive out here as well, they all look after each other.

Housing costs in Texas are average, not one of the higher states. That helps.

 

[two_bit_score]

Housing costs in Texas are average, not one of the higher states. That helps.

We are in the middle of our property tax valuation protests across the state so there are many, many people who disagree with you on the reasonable cost of housing in Texas.



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[goeduck]

We are in the middle of our property tax valuation protests across the state so there are many, many people who disagree with you on the reasonable cost of housing in Texas.
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Try living in CA, CO or MA. Everything I read and hear is that Texas housing costs are average.

 

[Dftodd]

I've never had an incident with a bad LEO either.

So if we mix the bad experiences with the non bad experiences here, the percentage looks pretty good!!!

My wife and daughter have both had an issue with an officer being inappropriate with them. My wife had an officer pull her over and asked her out for a date. She had never seen him before. His reasoning was qell I saw you drive by and you looked really cute. She called the chief and raised bloody h@@l with him over it.

Daughter was walking out of a gas station, and being courteous held the door for a second for a man going into the store. She then proceeded to drive the 1.5 miles to her house. An unmarked sport utility with flashing blue lights pulled her over 50ft from her driveway. It was the guy that she held the door for at the gas station.

Guy said she crossed the yellow line when making the left turn off the main road. We're not sure how he managed to pay for his Gas when there was a large line at the station. Then managed to get behind her 1/4 mile up the road to see her cross the line when she made the turn. Especially when he didn't catch up to her till she turned into her neighborhood. Guy said he was doing under cover work in the area and was gonna do her a favor and just give her a verbal warning. She thankfully got the license plate and number of the vehicle. She mentioned it to my wife the next night and I ended up calling the sheriff's department since they handle our area thinking the whole thing seemed like BS and i figured someone was impersonating an officer. Guy ended being an officer, off duty, and apparently had done something similar before.

 

[Professor Marvel]

You've been drinking at the koolaid fountain too long. Try putting away the tribalism and read the facts.
Most & Least Federally Dependent States

You can't be as stupid as you pretend so I can only assume you are intentionally obtuse

 

[BrokenTrack]

For me, in my situation, I pretty much cannot afford to "work", at least a traditional job. I do not think I am in a different situation, just that I was able to see what the system was like, and planned a way to get out of it early enough to be effective in life.

But here is an example.

Five years ago, my wife and I wanted some more land, so we bought another farm that happened to have a house on it. At the time, it had been vacant for 6 years. Well we let it stay vacant for 5 more...11 years in total. Naturally this house was not worth much, maybe $40,000.

So then, because I retired early, I decided to fix it up. So in 5 weeks time, by using logs from my farm, my sawmill, and doing the work myself, I rebuilt the house. This increased its value from vacant, unlivable status, to livable, and worth around $80,000. Because most of the building materials I made myself, I spent $1700 in cash in fixing it up. So my question is, where could I ever work...a high school educated guy, and make $7660 a week? ($40,000 increase in value, spending $1700, over 5 weeks time).

But I admit that is a $40,000 increase in net worth, not cash money that I can spend...or is it?

Because the house was now livable, we moved our family into that house, and put our other house up for sale. Since that house is worth $175,000, and I own it outright with no mortgage, when it does sell, that means fixing up the vacant house did give me cash, but not $7660 per week, but $35,000 per week, because it gave a place for my family to go, and sell our other home. Yes, we had to be humble and move to a house that was half the size, old, and still needs work, but no matter how I calculate it, working a real job just does not pay me as much money as staying home doing my own thing.

I still work, but the pay back for my time spent, is so much greater then working for a small paycheck.

It has never been about how much money you make, it is about how much money you spend. Staying home, doing my own thing, allows me to produce more for myself that has inherent value.

 

[ovrszd]

For me, in my situation, I pretty much cannot afford to "work", at least a traditional job. I do not think I am in a different situation, just that I was able to see what the system was like, and planned a way to get out of it early enough to be effective in life.

But here is an example.

Five years ago, my wife and I wanted some more land, so we bought another farm that happened to have a house on it. At the time, it had been vacant for 6 years. Well we let it stay vacant for 5 more...11 years in total. Naturally this house was not worth much, maybe $40,000.

So then, because I retired early, I decided to fix it up. So in 5 weeks time, by using logs from my farm, my sawmill, and doing the work myself, I rebuilt the house. This increased its value from vacant, unlivable status, to livable, and worth around $80,000. Because most of the building materials I made myself, I spent $1700 in cash in fixing it up. So my question is, where could I ever work...a high school educated guy, and make $7660 a week? ($40,000 increase in value, spending $1700, over 5 weeks time).

But I admit that is a $40,000 increase in net worth, not cash money that I can spend...or is it?

Because the house was now livable, we moved our family into that house, and put our other house up for sale. Since that house is worth $175,000, and I own it outright with no mortgage, when it does sell, that means fixing up the vacant house did give me cash, but not $7660 per week, but $35,000 per week, because it gave a place for my family to go, and sell our other home. Yes, we had to be humble and move to a house that was half the size, old, and still needs work, but no matter how I calculate it, working a real job just does not pay me as much money as staying home doing my own thing.

I still work, but the pay back for my time spent, is so much greater then working for a small paycheck.

It has never been about how much money you make, it is about how much money you spend. Staying home, doing my own thing, allows me to produce more for myself that has inherent value.

I enjoy reading your creative financial philosophy.

 

[atsah]

For me, in my situation, I pretty much cannot afford to "work", at least a traditional job. I do not think I am in a different situation, just that I was able to see what the system was like, and planned a way to get out of it early enough to be effective in life.

But here is an example.

Five years ago, my wife and I wanted some more land, so we bought another farm that happened to have a house on it. At the time, it had been vacant for 6 years. Well we let it stay vacant for 5 more...11 years in total. Naturally this house was not worth much, maybe $40,000.

So then, because I retired early, I decided to fix it up. So in 5 weeks time, by using logs from my farm, my sawmill, and doing the work myself, I rebuilt the house. This increased its value from vacant, unlivable status, to livable, and worth around $80,000. Because most of the building materials I made myself, I spent $1700 in cash in fixing it up. So my question is, where could I ever work...a high school educated guy, and make $7660 a week? ($40,000 increase in value, spending $1700, over 5 weeks time).

But I admit that is a $40,000 increase in net worth, not cash money that I can spend...or is it?

Because the house was now livable, we moved our family into that house, and put our other house up for sale. Since that house is worth $175,000, and I own it outright with no mortgage, when it does sell, that means fixing up the vacant house did give me cash, but not $7660 per week, but $35,000 per week, because it gave a place for my family to go, and sell our other home. Yes, we had to be humble and move to a house that was half the size, old, and still needs work, but no matter how I calculate it, working a real job just does not pay me as much money as staying home doing my own thing.

I still work, but the pay back for my time spent, is so much greater then working for a small paycheck.

It has never been about how much money you make, it is about how much money you spend. Staying home, doing my own thing, allows me to produce more for myself that has inherent value.

Did you have health insurance for you're family when you retired early?