/biz/ - Business & Finance

>>53152370
>afford a house, non working wife, 2 cars, 3 kids and 2 pets
>this was considered a working class loser 20+ years ago

>>53152370
It is a fucking cartoon

>>53152370
Homer represented the middle class every day working man. Lol now he is just a fictional character in whacky situations.

>>53152370
Why are his taxes so low

You mad wagie?

>>53152370
he didn't buy the house. his dad gave it to him or something like that

>>53152370
The fact that Al Bundy in the 80's had a lifestyle beyond the reach of zoomers is too much to bear. You laugh to keep from screaming.

>>53152399
are those real taxes?
You burgers get royally fucked lol

It was a cartoon

But if you apply logic to it, it's because a small town with one or two factories (or nuclear power plants) was self-sustaining but also home prices were significantly lower so Homer was making like 20k a year but his house was probably worth like 40k max.

Now homer would be a big fat boomer and even though the power plant would be replaced with a massive ugly wind farm or something (also owned by burns, who somehow doesn't die similar to buffet and soros and redstone and murdoch) and used to get tax credits instead of actually producing anything, homer's crappy suburban shitbox would be worth like 400k meanwhile bart is working as a paralegal to get through law school in his 40s making 40k a year or something.

>>53152394
>that episode where homer was a DISGUSTING 300 pounds and earned disability checks because of it

>>53152413
>GI generation helps their kids out by spreading the wealth
>homer shits on his only son while propping up his daughter even thought she's a cunty little bitch who spits on his religion and beliefs and considers him a retard
Simpsons is a documentary.

>>53152458
>20k a year but his house was probably worth like 40k max.
thats the KEY.
Houses used to be only a 2x or 3x multiple of your income, almost everywhere.
Now its a 10x

>>53152473
>Simpsons is social CONDITIONING (brainwashing)
fixed that for you.

>>53152370
When I was a kid our house cost 50k back in the 90s and my parents thought they were getting ripped off so probably

>>53152505
>and now it's at least 400k

>>53152456
Stuff like FICA prop up social security programs, like how in spain or whatever retarded country you're in does the same thing.

Net pay is his pay after taxes and is around 19k, so his gross pay before taxes would be like 477 dollars so he'd be making about 25k a year gross.

At the end of the year he'd file his taxes and get a tax return of about 3k dollars. He would also get get tax refunds for having kids that would probably give him like 1000 dollars for having 3 kids.

>>53152437
>shoe salesman with a fat wife, ugly kids and a crummy life was a king compared to modern kids
But 21yo college kids have broccoli hair and iphones.

>>53152688
Yeah you kids don't appreciate what you have now. You can have WiFi and smart TV's in the van down by the river

>Op has never been

>>53152473
>>that episode where homer was a DISGUSTING 300 pounds and earned disability checks because of it
he was way ahead of his time being the original neet

>>53152370
Don't be envy goy. You deserve to be a slave.

>>53152672
Thanks for doing the math.

>>53153316
Damn, son. This really fucking hurts. What the fuck happened to this country?

>>53153335
To be fair, nuclear power plant operators still get paid that much.

>>53153179
Would be comfy if it was just something you did in your 20s while getting your life together, having sex with a freshman college girl who thought you were cool as shit. Instead you have to live there, get no sex and if you fuck an 18yo as a 25yo you get people calling you a 'creeper' or some shit lol.

>>53153265
Even better since he was a wfh chad using the ancient internet.

>>53153335
cool it with the anti-semitic remarks please

>>53153388
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>>53152672
>He would also get get tax refunds for having kids that would probably give him like 1000 dollars for having 3 kids.
EIC wasn't a thing in the 90s.

>>53152688
>fat wife ugly kids
Post your girlfriend

>>53153453
Daughter fuckable, son looks like he's in his 30s and does drugs, wife looks like bruce jenner but I guess that was okay in the 1980s because he wasn't larping as a woman.

>>53153316
It's 340k using the shadowstats inflation series
https://www.halfhill.com/inflation_js.html

>>53152370
Median income was 30k in in 92 and the show made a point of driving home that they were struggling.

Any of the "low middle class starter homes from family barely making it" you see from 90s sitcoms would be 400K these days. Even Roseannes.

>>53152370
Homer lived in middle America in the 20th century back when factory towns existed. He was likely also in a union and was paid inflated unsustainable wages despite not working much at all.

>>53154141
>400k
Or more depending on the city.
I used to love old simpsons. This thread is depressing seeing everything taken from us. The old "average man" lifestyle is out of reach; I live like bart in >>53152458 but make less and save money by staying with parents. I've quit drinking; saves money and better for my health but some nights are really bad being sober while everything is so shit.

>>53153316
>my dad's salary was literally worth 4x mine and he was a blue collar shitter

>>53153502
his wife looks fucking great for her 50s
his son is literally late 20s in that pic

like how fucking old do you think those people are man

>>53154301
I thought the son was like 18. Numbers make more sense now.

$25k/yr was livable in 1990, you could buy a house for like $50k

>>53154353
It all feels so pointless now

>>53152370
>Reading this thread
>Affording a house is a cartoon fantasy
I dont know why you guys dont start wacking politicians, in minecraft.

>>53154269
imagine talking about your father like that you ungrateful faggot

>>53152475
>Now its a 10x
why?

>>53152370
almost true. homer would've actually made about twice that amount, could afford a housewife, 1 car, 3 kids and 2 pets. no man back then would allow their housewife to own a car so that she could cheat on him while he's at work lol