Comic Discussion > QUESTIONABLE CONTENT
WCDT Strips 3821-3825 (3-7 September 2018)
Case:
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Also depends on culture - some of the best justifications presented here (cf. eg. themacnut's post above) to support the stance that budgeting is a skill without which an adult homo sapiens cannot be considered an adult apply only in the US and similar societies, that have virtually no social safety net, where social security contributions are not automatically deduced from paycheques, and where employers actually use cheques to pay wages.
Eg. in Ireland & Germany, employers and employees each pay half of social security contributions, where 'social security' is an umbrella term for health insurance, unemployment insurance, retirement plans (in Germany, also often care-insurance). Typically, the employer transfers both their-, and their employees social security contributions to the respective institutions - i.e. social security is deduced from a paycheck as if it were a tax.
Meaning that even people who have never made a budget in their lives enjoy strong protections against the most extreme vagaries of life, i.e. illness, unemployment, homelessness and hunger.
bhtooefr:
Oh, but it's so much more convoluted than that in the US.
Employers are supposed to take all of the expected taxes out of paychecks and transfer them, and Social Security and Medicare taxes are supposed to come out. Those are actually the two most important ones for employers to get right, IIRC.
Social Security and Medicare taxes are the easier ones, but then there's federal, state, local, and school taxes, that can be difficult to calculate, so often the employer will get it wrong, and you'll either owe money or be owed money by at least one taxing body.
Emperor Norton:
--- Quote from: bhtooefr on 04 Sep 2018, 08:48 ---Oh, but it's so much more convoluted than that in the US.
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And this isn't even touching on being self-employed...
zechstyr:
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--- Quote from: BenRG on 03 Sep 2018, 23:35 ---We're being reminded here that one of the big drawbacks of being around a Disney Princess is the special effects! Claire's sparkly love may be cute but it's also really dazzling!
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Well as long as Claire isn’t being noisy. They are in a library afterall.
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In my experience, university libraries are noisy places, because young adults cannot be quiet for more than 5 minutes. (Get off my lawn!) Of course, data point of 2, and my first university was tiny compared to most others, apparently.
My current university, bless them, has silent floors, where if you are heard making unnecessary noise, you are quietly told to hush or leave. Claire could not be there, because I will call shenanigoats if she doesn't have a theme song.
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Can confirm that libraries are noisy places nowadays. The ol' shushy librarian is a stereotype we try to squish. My library's set up as a collaborative work area with some areas specifically designated as quiet zones.
Lucina:
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--- Quote from: pallanox on 04 Sep 2018, 06:54 ---I was now going to mention his guitar splurge.
Kudos for Claire trying to get the facts straight. Spreadsheets are a hell unto themselves.
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Meh, was Claire really trying to get her facts straight though? It reads more as if Claire was venting about her conversation with Marten to Tai, and Tai corrected her when she realized Claire did not have her facts straight. If Claire had asked Tai about the details of Marten's employment, the conversation here would've gone quite different.
From me, Claire would've gotten kudos if she had gotten the facts from Tai first, before fussing to Marten about it.
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I'm sorry but why would Claire specifically ask Tai, when Marten didn't correct her? She had no reason to assume the idea she had was wrong. That she realized how her behavior was wrong when she found out, as well as that Marten was deliberately holding back the information to give her space to be upset and work it out, is pretty much what she'd need to do in this situation. Where the original wrong assumption came from would need Jeph to clarify, she's clearly picked up bits and pieces but we don't know exactly what.
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