/biz/ - Business & Finance

>>54547104
Which would be $48,700 today, with the median American full time income at $67,000, meaning, in current day, he would be making 30% under the median. Makes sense to me.

Lets consider the housing, then. Springfield is in Oregon. Population of springfield is estimated to be about 32,000. Seems to be a fairly isolated town, overall, not directly near any major city. We could thus compare Springfield to Grant's Pass, Oregon, which currently has 38,000 population. Here is a 4 bedroom there, for $449,900. Assuming an 8% down payment and mortgage amount of $413,00, at 7.81% mortgage rates (the actual average rate in 1996), that would require a $2,976 payment, monthly, on a 30 year fixed mortgage.

But as seen above, Homer is only pulling in $1,448 a week, post tax. It doesn't add up.

>>54547217
Try a different nowhere town. Maybe not in fucking Oregon or generally on the west coast where things are expensive. Perhaps the middle of the country?

>>54547237
The joke is nobody really knew where Springfield was.

>>54547237
Springfield IS in Oregon. He’s not saying “what if it was”. It IS. Matt Groening has confirmed it. (Also where Matt is from)

>>54547217
The reason the numbers don't work is because the Springfield that The Simpsons live in is not canonically in Oregon, thus invalidating your figures.

>>54547254
Always thought it was Springfield, Illinois because I'm from Illinois and haven't thought about the Simpson since I was 10 fucking years old (besides Sneed's Feed and Seed (formerly Chuck's)).

>>54547249
>>54547254
The joke is that Springfield isn't anywhere because it's a cartoon you fucking redditor faggot. If you make 50k you better move to a town somewhere in the middle of the country or rent forever

>>54547304
And you wonder why nobody likes you

>>54547319
They don't need to like me. I own a home which means I don't need roommates like you. Rentoid cope is so pathetic.

>>54547104
https://www.minds.com/groups/profile/1231345364324413440/feed?referrer=Tay_Tweets_ReBorn

A Nuclear Safety Engineer should make $150k

>>54547217
What part of wages haven't kept up with inflation do you not understand?

Nobody wants to recognize the fact that boomers bought homes out in nowhere towns that EVENTUALLY became big suburbs. Millennials on low income need to do the same or kick rocks.

>>54547348

A properly credentialed engineer, perhaps. Homer just showed up when the plant opened

>>54547340
>all that projection
Christ. You okay bro?

>>54547374
>Projection
So you're not a rentoid? You don't need roommates to make expenses work? You don't get on here making the same rentoid cope thread every day?
My bad.

>>54547249
It was Springfield Mass

>>54547368
I now relate to that episode as an adult how the lazy and incompetent get a free ride at work.

>>54547368
He faked his nuclear physics degree

>>54547392
I don’t know who you’re confusing me with. But I own my own home. I was making fun of you for sperging out over Springfield not being real. You need help, friend. And everything you’ve said so far ITT has convinced me that no, you are not a homeowner. Projecting your frustration and disappointment into others is a dead giveaway

>>54547360
It’s like all the people in China who became “rich” because they bought a house in a city of 200,000 that became a city of 10,000,000. Somehow, most Chinese didn’t get rich.

>>54547360
Fine, source me a nowhere town with 50k/y jobs

>>54547104
Reminder it’s a cartoon

>>54547217
they could have bought the house 10 or 20 years before 1996. and who knows if grandpa simpson or someone in marge's family bought it years ago.

my parents bought their house in the late 90s and it's worth 3.75x its original value, isn't even a great house either. god only knows the property value of the simpsons home if they had bought it 10, 15, 20 years before the show started. if homer and marge got their first home in 1980 the mortgage could have easily been 30-50% off of that $413,000 mark you're talking about.

>>54547497
>Fine, source me a nowhere town with 50k/y jobs
places with nuclear power plants. they often put power plants in remote towns because people don't want to live near them.

25,000 in 1996 would be like 80,000 dollars now.

>>54547217
Springfield is based on Springfield, Oregon. It is not the same city, you fucking retarded monkey.
>it's 48,700 today
Bro no one takes the CPI and its bullshit at face value.
>four bedroom is 449,000
How is it you looked up inflation rates but didn't realize they're inaccurate because a house cost like 10 times less 30 years ago, you fucking bumbling idiot.

>>54547605
I recall relatives in the 80’s saying how they felt sorry for younger people who missed out on low house prices.

>>54547217
>Assuming an 8% down payment and mortgage amount of $413,00, at 7.81% mortgage rates (t
His dad gave him the house

>>54547217
Grandpa paid for large part of the house. you ever watched the simpsons?

>>54547638
And they were constantly trying to put grandpa in a rest home. Kek.

>>54547249
They literally state in almost every episode its Springfield, America

>>54547217
>>54547104
He earns royalties for the music he wrote. I expect that's worth a bit a year.

MUH HECKING FAMILY ROLE MODEL SITCOM FAMILY

>>54547104
>bear patrol tax 5.00
gotta pay to keep bobo away?

>>54547104
Homer's state income tax is 2%, which means Oregon is right out with its 5-10% income tax.
Find the state with 2% income tax for married-filing jointly in the 25k bracket and you'll find Springfield.
>>54547355
The part where you use the federal minimum wage to tell us what wages are, but not actual wages.

It's Springfield Indiana because there's a Shelbyville in Indiana

>>54547217
They didn’t buy the house his father give them their house for free
Also homer has passive income

would you be living paycheck to paycheck with $2700 biweekly?

>>54547104
>>54547217
It doesn't add up, because it isn't supposed to, even in this day and age 25k isn't mandatory even for poorfags. You just need to invest in literally anything right now, everything is green, we are going back bros, don't miss it.
Page is dextools btw

>>54547217
do you think mr. sneed made a wise investment in buying a homosexual whorehouse and converting it into farming supplies?

>>54547295
>>54547254
Northern Kentucky. They said it the behind the music type episode.

>i make more than homer simpson
Fufufu, I might not have a house, wife, or children, but this money keeps me warm

>>54547104
>state tax
>municipal tax

Homer confirmed blue state retard.

>>54547249
Subtle joke

>>54547217
>1448 a week
big if true

>>54547625
> Bro no one takes the CPI and its bullshit at face value.
Based austrian school economics knower.

>>54547965
Bears pay the bear tax. Homer pays the Homer tax.

>>54551804
Thats the homeowners tax.

>>54551804
That's the Home OWNER's tax.

>>54547104
That’s weekly.

>>54547217
>making retarded shit up
>stating it as fact
>using your fabricated bullshit to substantiate further claims
The absolute state of biz.

There is literally a whole episode about how Homer shouldn't be able to afford the lifestyle that he does

>>54552149
and *sniff* *sniff* LOBSTERS FOR DINNER!

>>54552163
Wanna see my Grammy?

>>54547254
It's around the Oregon/California area. In the episode where he gets hired by Scorpio they move "up state somewhere" with redwoods and good climate

>>54547441
Did he? I am pretty sure he got the job just from appearances/willpower.

>>54550989
>>54551804
kek'd

>>54547217
The median per Capita income is like 36k. Highest I've seen for average would only be like mid 40 to low 50. Household median is around 60k but that's combining the income of everyone in the house. America is much poorer than people think. 30k a year is like $15 hourly for full time.

>>54552149
Lol Grimey is actually /biz/ personified.

>>54552807
kek

>>54552149
One of the best episodes of The Simpsons. It was all downhill after that season

>>54552251
>During an inspection of the Springfield Nuclear Power Plant by the Nuclear Regulatory Commission, Homer is placed in a test module van that simulates a power surge. He has no idea what to do, so he pushes buttons at random and causes a nuclear meltdown, even though the van contains no nuclear material. Despite Mr. Burns' offer of a bribe, the NCC officials tell him that Homer's job requires college training in nuclear physics. After Homer is rejected by every school he applies to, Mr. Burns helps him enroll at Springfield University.

>Homer is asked to demonstrate how a proton accelerator works and causes a nuclear meltdown in class. Dean Peterson recommends Homer receive tutoring. When his tutors — three nerds named Benjamin, Doug, and Gary — try to help Homer understand physics, he refuses to cooperate. Instead, he and Bart convince them to pull a prank on rival college Springfield A&M by kidnapping the school's mascot, a pig named Sir Oinkcelot. When the pig falls ill after Homer feeds it malt liquor, the nerds are blamed for the incident and expelled.

>Homer invites Benjamin, Doug, and Gary to move in with the Simpsons. Their presence quickly disrupts the normal family routine. When Marge orders Homer to evict them, he tries to get them re-admitted to college with an elaborate hoax: he will nearly run down Peterson with his car, but the nerds will push him from harm's way at the last moment, hopefully reinstating them. The plan backfires after Homer's car actually hits the dean, seriously injuring him. At the hospital, Homer asks that Benjamin, Doug, and Gary be reinstated. The dean agrees, and they move back into their old dormitory room. The nerds hack into the school's student records and change Homer’s grade to an A+, but Marge finds out and forces Homer to take the course again to set a good example for Bart and Lisa.

>>54547217
That is what it is adjusted by CPI. If you adjust relative to HOUSING and S&P 500 Homers wage is the modern equivalent of $40 and $71 respectively.

We have it insanely shit in the modern day and no amount of your Jewish Talmudic gaslighting can change this reality

>>54547348
>Xcel Energy
this wouldnt have happened with Core Boomers Inc

>>54547249
Its right next to Shelbyville.

>>54552251
>His job in Season 1, before promotion to safety inspector. It was unclear to everyone (including his employer and Homer himself). He called himself a "technical supervisor", others thought he was a "supervising technician". He was hired as part of "Project Bootstrap," a government program to bring in unskilled workers implemented by the Ford administration.[3]

Project Bootstrap Kek

>>54553145
>>54552251
>a government program to bring in unskilled workers
Homer is actually a black man, this is the secret they dont want you to know. If the simpsons were made today he would be an air traffic controller.

>>54552807
he seems like he'd be a boboposter

>>54547392
Your neighbors don't like you

>>54547217
Grandpa a Simpson bought the house with his summer job earnings

>>54547605
Oh yeah I forgot Marge's family is rich.
Wait, I think that's Lois Griffin nvm

>>54548170
Ah yes. Those must be the great Indiana mountains in the background.

>>54553494
My neighbors are an alcoholic millennial couple and a married couple with 3 kids. They're all nice people and we get along well enough. Rent is due soon.

>>54552149
Funny thing is reddit absolutely hates this episode. Reddit is also filled with commie degenerates. Really makes you think kek

>>54553080

Oh no page 10 I don't think so

>>54553134
Damn, I rly want a glass of cool turnip juice

>>54552251
Yes he got the job by marching straight into burn's office

>>54552149
Grimes did nothing wrong.

>>54558284
He didn't use safety gloves

>>54558509
He was imitating Homer.

>>54547217
it clearly says $362 for 40hr, not $1448.

>>54547249
It's also where Sneed's Feed and Seed is located... also formerly known as "Chuck's"