1.This wasnt made with the intent of poltards to scrutinize it 25 years later.
B. Grandpa sold his place and gave the money to Homer to buy the house.
4.. You can buy a house in the midwest like this on a single income.
Oh I'm moronic it says 40 hrs. Which means he makes about 1500 a month which makes sense. They'd be paying like 500-700 a month in a mortgage and they do have money problems sometimes.
This comes out at $17k a year which would have supported a Simpsons like lifestyle (Homer drives an old shitbox and they don't own or do luxurious things) in a small dumpy flyover town (as Springfield is consistently characterized) in the nineties.
$362.19 in 1989 would be $890 today. Assuming 47 work weeks thats $41830 per year in take home pay.
If I go the reverse route we're looking at $479.6 gross in 1989 which turns into $1,178.51 or $29.46/hr or $55,839 per year.
Assuming (since Matt Groening alleges to have inspired Springfield from Portland, OR) you live in Oregon: >66.04 Social >15.15 Medicare >105.45 State income tax >10.65 city income tax >115.38 deduction w/h >paycheck $752.20/week
Forgot to include ~11% federal income tax when going through it so thats an additional 4.6k or so gone.
Correct. It is a cartoon also intended to reflect a relatively relatable, lower middle class lifestyle. Homer and his family are not supposed to be particularly well off or fortunate. Indeed, a recurring joke is that they're bad with money.
The point is that what was considered a comfortable but relatively achievable lifestyle thirty years ago now seems borderline luxurious for many Americans.
It's Also a recurring joke that they can afford to go on vacation whenever and homers constant impulse buying and a hundred different other things
One episode they are broke the next they are Rich
Why keep asking the question in the first place if you're not wanting to hear anyone's opinions? My answer was look at the other threads you've made where you actually got explanations.
Clearly you don't care if you keep making this thread. Easy (You)s for you.
When you morons started demanding 15 an hour for the sort of labor flipping burgers involves all you did was change the value of what 15 dollars gets you. "Sure... we will pay you 15 dollars and... now 15 dollars allows you to buy 3 dollars worth of shit."
If you stay in a job long enough with raises and whatnot your salary increases. In the past people would have maybe 3-4 jobs in their entire life. Not the case at all anymore.
yeah because now people make more money with job hopping.
the reality is that normal people make less while the israelites hiking up the prices of everything. every other "explanation" is just 10000000000% cope.
no, shithead... you kids demand more money for the same shitty empty headed level of work. You get it due to liberals, and THAT devalues money down to being worth only that level of competence. Getting 15 bucks an hour for dogshit level work just made 15 bucks worth dogshit.
compare it to the increase in minimum wage in the same area, and then suck my butthole because I am right and you are a blue haired homosexual.
3 months ago
Anonymous
I'm more straight and right leaning than your larping homosexual ass. give me numbers or go back to playing you child
3 months ago
Anonymous
we have gaydar and know what you are. Eat that guys ass you homosexual commie.
3 months ago
Anonymous
>ad hominem instead of proof
all i had to hear little guy
3 months ago
Anonymous
I ain't painting your fricking fence Tom Sawyer. Do your own homework. If flipping burgers while on your phone is worth 15 bucks an a hour, 15 bucks is nearly worthless. This is how the world and inflation and the housing pricing works you thick tit.
3 months ago
Anonymous
>the sea is made of water >NOOOO IT'S MADE OF JAMBA JUICE!!!! >prove it >NOOOOO I WON'T YOU DO IT!!!!44444
literal moron argument
3 months ago
Anonymous
He makes sense. You write like a c**t.
3 months ago
Anonymous
>sameposting
you are really desperate lmao
3 months ago
Anonymous
It makes sense. If 15 dollars is only worth an hour of low skill wage, 15 dollars should not buy you much.
yep. it is fricking insane.
make me angry. my cousin bought his house for $40k then sold it for 90K 2 years ago.
and he complains about getting ripped off. I unironically want to punch him in the head
My dad was a truck driver and my mom was a stay at home mom, 4 kids total. We grew up in a house like that. Not a two story, but one of those pretty typical 3/2 florida houses that were built in the mid 80s. Zoomies today don't know how good it really was back then, and how bad they're getting assraped by inflation now.
It was considered normal in the old shows the Simpsons was taking the piss out of. People today simply cannot conceive of how well they had it in post WW2 America.
he was head of security at a nuclear plant. i bet that pays well
Homer got a nice, cushy job with a good enough pay through sheer, dumb luck. That's literally part of the plot of the whole series.
>nusons
Opinion discarded.
>season 7
>nusons
that's like 5k with inflation
1.This wasnt made with the intent of poltards to scrutinize it 25 years later.
B. Grandpa sold his place and gave the money to Homer to buy the house.
4.. You can buy a house in the midwest like this on a single income.
Is this weekly or bi-weekly? Also he probably bought that house for like 80-120k, maybe even cheaper.
It says 40 hours so its weekly
Oh I'm moronic it says 40 hrs. Which means he makes about 1500 a month which makes sense. They'd be paying like 500-700 a month in a mortgage and they do have money problems sometimes.
just looked this stuff up from inflation calendar, $1500 in 1989 is equivalent to $3710,64, pretty normal for a person like homer
The episode it's from aired in 1996, so it would be about 3000 today.
Pretty okay comnsidering Homer caused several meltdowns and accidents
This comes out at $17k a year which would have supported a Simpsons like lifestyle (Homer drives an old shitbox and they don't own or do luxurious things) in a small dumpy flyover town (as Springfield is consistently characterized) in the nineties.
$362.19 in 1989 would be $890 today. Assuming 47 work weeks thats $41830 per year in take home pay.
If I go the reverse route we're looking at $479.6 gross in 1989 which turns into $1,178.51 or $29.46/hr or $55,839 per year.
Assuming (since Matt Groening alleges to have inspired Springfield from Portland, OR) you live in Oregon:
>66.04 Social
>15.15 Medicare
>105.45 State income tax
>10.65 city income tax
>115.38 deduction w/h
>paycheck $752.20/week
Forgot to include ~11% federal income tax when going through it so thats an additional 4.6k or so gone.
It is a cartoon.
Correct. It is a cartoon also intended to reflect a relatively relatable, lower middle class lifestyle. Homer and his family are not supposed to be particularly well off or fortunate. Indeed, a recurring joke is that they're bad with money.
The point is that what was considered a comfortable but relatively achievable lifestyle thirty years ago now seems borderline luxurious for many Americans.
It's Also a recurring joke that they can afford to go on vacation whenever and homers constant impulse buying and a hundred different other things
One episode they are broke the next they are Rich
>borderline luxurious
how broke are you?
i'm 24 about to buy my third house
No you arn't
why are amerimutts so poor? im an ausgay and everyone i know owns their own house, myself included.
We are not poor. Stupid shutins that post here are poor. I own my home and 3 vehicles outright.
homer was born in the '50s
He was born in the 90s today
you can take loan if you have job and then buy house
springfield is a small city, that house would only be like 300k in today's money
a hot meal, which no one else did
Back in ‘89, that house was worth, what, 60k tops? And he was well paid according to the time.
Abe sold his small house that won in a tvshow that was fixed, and gave Homer a check for 15K, dunno is Homer had more savings to do the down payment.
People have explained it to you in the other threads that you've made.
Did i ask your opinion?
Yes?
No
Why keep asking the question in the first place if you're not wanting to hear anyone's opinions? My answer was look at the other threads you've made where you actually got explanations.
Clearly you don't care if you keep making this thread. Easy (You)s for you.
Shut the frick up already loser
Cry about it.
You are
>n-no u
Yes
It's a pol agitation thread.
OP BTFO
I wonder who keeps making these threads?
Otherwise what will be narrated
When you morons started demanding 15 an hour for the sort of labor flipping burgers involves all you did was change the value of what 15 dollars gets you. "Sure... we will pay you 15 dollars and... now 15 dollars allows you to buy 3 dollars worth of shit."
It was pre-Bidenflation.
How did this guy buy a house and support a family of four with a job as a shoe salesman at a mall?
If you stay in a job long enough with raises and whatnot your salary increases. In the past people would have maybe 3-4 jobs in their entire life. Not the case at all anymore.
yeah because now people make more money with job hopping.
the reality is that normal people make less while the israelites hiking up the prices of everything. every other "explanation" is just 10000000000% cope.
no, shithead... you kids demand more money for the same shitty empty headed level of work. You get it due to liberals, and THAT devalues money down to being worth only that level of competence. Getting 15 bucks an hour for dogshit level work just made 15 bucks worth dogshit.
facts don't care about your feelings chud
compare it to the increase in minimum wage in the same area, and then suck my butthole because I am right and you are a blue haired homosexual.
I'm more straight and right leaning than your larping homosexual ass. give me numbers or go back to playing you child
we have gaydar and know what you are. Eat that guys ass you homosexual commie.
>ad hominem instead of proof
all i had to hear little guy
I ain't painting your fricking fence Tom Sawyer. Do your own homework. If flipping burgers while on your phone is worth 15 bucks an a hour, 15 bucks is nearly worthless. This is how the world and inflation and the housing pricing works you thick tit.
>the sea is made of water
>NOOOO IT'S MADE OF JAMBA JUICE!!!!
>prove it
>NOOOOO I WON'T YOU DO IT!!!!44444
literal moron argument
He makes sense. You write like a c**t.
>sameposting
you are really desperate lmao
It makes sense. If 15 dollars is only worth an hour of low skill wage, 15 dollars should not buy you much.
The reason for this is just that there are more people so now homes are scarcer. No one is to blame. This was inevitable and couldn't be prevented.
>the past people would have maybe 3-4 jobs in their entire life. Not the case at all anymore.
Are they working less or more? (Jobs)
way more.
Homer works as a supervisor at a fricking nuclear power plant. It's a plot point several times he's just luckmaxxing.
U used to be able to buy houses from a catalog anon
looks like you'd have to have a lot to build it but considering the cost of the house the lot should be too much money either i guess
It's not fair.
yep. it is fricking insane.
make me angry. my cousin bought his house for $40k then sold it for 90K 2 years ago.
and he complains about getting ripped off. I unironically want to punch him in the head
My dad was a truck driver and my mom was a stay at home mom, 4 kids total. We grew up in a house like that. Not a two story, but one of those pretty typical 3/2 florida houses that were built in the mid 80s. Zoomies today don't know how good it really was back then, and how bad they're getting assraped by inflation now.
> getting assraped by inflation
Thanks trump!
It's a fricking cartoon. It's fiction. Their skin is primary yellow and have been the same age since the 80s. It's not real.
it is in japan.
OP doesn't care either way. He'll post this thread again tomorrow farming replies and maintain a spot on page 1.
Rent free
Am I wrong?
What happened in your life that you care about what threads are made on a chinese image board? Got nothing else going on? Clearly not
What happened in your life that makes you spam the same Xitter screencap thread every single day on here? Got nothing else going on? Clearly not.
Why do you care if i post it or not
What do you get out of making the same thread over and over?
Why do you care?
Answer my question and I'll tell you.
he gets you to care in a round about wway... I think I may cry.
Nope
Then keep seething when someone points out that you've already made this shit thread.
No one else will, only you care for some strange reason
>just stop noticing
No, I don't think I will. Seethe, cope, complain about it on reddit for updoots.
The only person coping here is you
HOMER HAD SUBSIDIZED SNEEDBUX FROM THE GOVERNMENT FROM HIS SEED AND FEED DEALINGS
>How on earth did Homer afford this?
cheque fraud and bad debt +squatting
It was considered normal in the old shows the Simpsons was taking the piss out of. People today simply cannot conceive of how well they had it in post WW2 America.
Selling Gucci Loafers