This is Dave. He's a welder.
Dave spent several years as an apprentice, then a journeyman. He then worked for a company for 15 more years. After putting in 70-hour weeks for such a long time, he opened his own welding company. Dave now employs 4 people, and pays them well. For all this, Dave takes home $253,000 per year.
Because of what Dave makes, he's part of the 1%.
Really makes you think, doesn't it?
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I live in a town full of lawnscaper millionaires
That's pretty cool, good for him. He earned the money by working alot and taking the time.
You don't comprehend the delusions of leftists. Leftypol literally believes that "wages are theft", because the employer takes a cut out of the profit, while paying the employees.
welding is a great career
your eyes go to shit kind of quick though so it makes sense you're paid well
underwater welders roll mad bank
starting an apprenticeship program.
It'll take 5 years.
At the end, I'll be making minimum $5/hour, with healthcare, dental, retirement, 2 weeks paid vacation, and a few months off every year.
Construction is tough, but it's damn good money.
>the employer takes a cut out of the profit, while paying the employees.
..the money that the employees made
*$45/hour
fucking keyboard
No, the employees made zero money. Otherwise, they wouldn't be seeking employment. Unless you're capable of producing something yourself, you deserve zero.
so #edgy
Fuck off, communist scum.
Making $30000 usd a year puts you in top 1% wage earners of the world.
no hes not you idiot.
Hes not even halfway.
Top 1% is 500k anually
>earning more than mudhut niggers, designated poos, favela niggers, sudaca reggae shithole spics, cartel beheading spics, caribbean nigger spics, cat/dog eating chinks, SE asian commie gooks is something to be proud of
gas yourself
>leaf
>$253,000
>1%
>The latest numbers from the IRS—based on just-released data from 2013 tax returns—show what it takes to be among the top 1% of income earners: At least $428,713 of adjusted gross income.
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Heh Not proud of, just makes you realize how many people are worse off. More an argument against ubi first world ers who are also "fuck the 1%ers"
They aren't worse off, they get as much as they deserve. Nobody "deserves" western standards of living.
and if you want to be in the top 1% in terms of net assets (not just income per year), you need 7million.
doubt joe the plumber has 7million in asets
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I'm capable of producing a quart of cum if I abstain for a week, what will you pay me?
No. I've always know leftists don't know the difference between upper middle class and actual rich people
They literally think anyone who makes more than them is rich
The actual rich do need to be taxed more though
Nothing, because nobody needs your NEET genes in the real world.
>I'm insecure about my wagecuck reality and get upset knowing others don't suffer my same pain.
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>successful business owning nigger
>1%
I believe it
>working
>suffering
>being entitled to a standard of living you are deluded with
get gassed
no, they don't
the rich have the means to employ lawyers to establish tax havens, so making it more expensive for them to keep their assets in their home country will only incentivise them leaving the country, like it happened in france, having 10k millionaires leaving in 2015
You saw my flag, right? It's the same as yours, and you don't even know about leaf economics.
OK, for the sake of you and the other autists: Change $253 to $501. Same point.
Nigger=/=Black Man
So a black guys tries to escape the life of being a nog so he gets educated, works hard, and makes something of himself instead of raping, killing, and stealing like the rest of his race and you're fucking upset over it? Or should I say jealous because a black man is doing better in life than you through honest work.
No. Dave is still culturally a poorfag.
To be culturally middle class, Dave needs a college degree. To be culturally upper-class, Dave needs to have Jew-tier manipulation skills that he uses to build a real business (a legal monopoly)
the face of 47% of the 1%
> Bourdieu
Wait don't tell me your upper classes developed the same antics as ours. What about your hip hop nigger billionaires?
Yeah because he really makes up the majority of the 1%....
stop shilling for corrupt millionaires you stupid cuck.
Older welders tend to get all sorts of strange lung and skin conditions. Long-term welding is scary.
>apprentice
>journeyman
kek literally all you need is like one class and to pass a weld test and not be a complete moron. Welding is the easiest highest yielding profession you can get into and literally anyone without a brain can do it. All you have to do is be a good worker. And thats why no one does it, because work ethic today is shitty.
1%ers have to make around $700000 a year.
Can an aerospace titanium welder migrate somewhere?
I work as a engineer at a factory and there are welding classes, i can take couses on welding titanium and aluminium.
Is it worth it?
NJ Carpenter?
...the money the employees couldn't have made without the infrastructure and connections supplied by the employer.
> Be a good worker
How about having a steady hand, intricate knowledge of steels and alloys, different kinds of welding apperatuses and how to adjust them for that perfect weld that doesn't go too deep and neither too shallow?
There's a reason good specialist welders can earn 6-figure salaries in high-demand sectors.
Feels good that I am working on programming that will make his job obsolete.
Dave wouldn't be able to open a business here in Texas where the avg welder earns only 11/hr thanks to NAFTA.
what are welder robot operators/supervisors
you have better chances as the aerospace engineer that you already are probably
You're not a welder.
>$253,000 per year is now considered the 1%
Holy shit, has the rest of the country really gotten that poor that the standard has fallen so low?
Let me know when they have the manual dexterity to weld in a 6g position between boilertubes slammed right next to eachother. That robot in your pic is massive . Would never fit inside an industrial setting like a power plant or down in a hole. Dont get me wrong there are plenty of robotic welding methods but thats factory work.
Feels good that am working on programming that will make your job obsolete.
whilst robots are good for welding en masse, welders are used to do all the important and difficult welds
Robots don't have the right to bear arms. Checkmate, bro.
>being this retarded
Not sure why it's so hard to believe that the "fuck the 1%" is just a meme.
Get a room of 100 people. Subtract the niggers. Then subtract the liberals. And then subtract your average joe. You're most likely left with somebody like Dave. He's your average joe but with exceptional drive and work ethic, and the knowledge to back that up. That's who the 1% is. And if you think about it, 1% is still a lot of people. They're not all some Jewish bankers. Also 1% varies from state to state in the U.S. due to cost of living etc...
My parents are statistically in the 1%. My father makes the most money and he doesn't have a college degree.
JUST. ANOTHER. MEME.
A freshman computer science student wouldn't understand that, you're wasting your time.
I make $150,000 a year as a contractor in computing, am I in the 1% guise.
I have a friend who works at a Mercedes plant as a welder. His job is to fix the welds the robot messed up haha.
Welders are transients, like construction workers. Nobody works as a welder their whole life, certainly not consistently. This could never happen.
>They're not all some Jewish bankers
0.01% doesn't sound as catchy as THUH ONE PUHCENT
>technology doesn't change
okay i will let you know.
>
>Welders are transients, like construction workers. Nobody works as a welder their whole life, certainly not consistently. This could never happen.
Yea, so most if the people working to build Pavati boats with me haven't been working a consistent and nearly lifelong job.
I'm a contractor and my aunt found out how much profit I made on one job and she went of calling me a scam artist and shit basically saying I should be doing it for at cost.
I told her my work is worth as much as people are willing to pay for it. There is no scam they can take it or leave it, idgaf.
This woman makes like 200 grand a year in human resources and shes got the fall to call me a scam artist for making decent money slugging it out building and upgrading homes.
Pissed me off.
>looks at flag
A FUCKING LEAF
By the time welding becomes obsolete, so will every other job including engineering, computer programming, service, etc...
If you can't understand that then you either don't know jackshit about anything to do with welding or you're just another fucking leaf
They can start their own business if they have a problem with it.
They`ll take your arms to bear rights.
You failed to understand the concept of the 1%. It's not a synonym for "capitalists." The one percent are post-capitalist financiers with undeclared supra-governmental power, and they are currently attempting to eliminate people like Dave, so they can have a global society that looks like Mexico or China (a handful of gods dominating teeming favelas of clods, unbothered by any Daves).
Literally just basic information you learn along the way.
Dave is a nigger
Im not. About to start training to become one though.
That goes for all jobs, trades and even higher educations
The point stands, welding is more difficult that you think.
Of course, anyone can use a CO2 welding machine and put two pieces of steel together. But it will look ugly and the welds will be flawed as fuck.
When it comes to structures that require tolerance to extreme pressures, like buildings, airplanes, oil and gas equipment, and so on, you need skilled welders. And they are pretty hard to find, which is why the gigs can pay so well.
Suspend the business accounts of millionaires who use tax havens, that would keep them from leaving the county. Just saying, you people always accept excuses even when you know someone is fucking the system and dodging their obligations to society.
That poster just shows the difference between a $10hr welder and someone who makes $60+ hr to make X-ray precision welds.
>Dave takes home $253,000 per year.
>Because of what Dave makes, he's part of the 1%.
HAHA, you serious? 253k doesn't get you anywhere close tot he 1% or rich people.
>you will never be a welder
I think it does, it's the top quarter of the 1% who are truly filthy rich. People just use 1% because it looks better also placing a decimal point would mildly confuse most americans anyway.
>You: boxing is the easiest sport ever. All you do is throw a punch or block a punch
>Everyone else: Oh so you're boxer? You're in a position to say that?
>You: No but I'm about to read a Wikipedia page on it though so pretty much.
You're autistic and should feel autistic. You know nothing about welding and I doubt you have ever laid a single decent looking bead in your life. You probably don't even know how to put an electrode in an electrode holder. You're either going to learn otherwise or fail miserably.
You 'literally' don't know what you're talking about. Kills yourself my man.
He's using global income in order to obfuscate. Most westerners probably fall within the top 10% if you use that scale.
And then he died childless, of testicular cancer.
Thats what being a BOSS is.
that depends
in indonesia a loaf of bread costs 10 us cents but people makes an average of 6 grand a year
And he's not a welder. He's actually in prison making license plates at 12 cents an hour.
What steps do you have to take to become a welder?
You motherfuckers overestimate these blue collar jobs. Any Mexican can come over here and undercut you.
I have a masters degree and started out at $80k at my job. Real easy job. No physical labor. Flex hours, 3 weeks vacation, work at home option. I'd kill myself if I had to give this up and become a fucking uneducated welder.
Says the person trying to glorify a profession that literally anyone can do and make plenty of money.
>Muh skillz tho
Bullshit, I work with plenty of welders. Just because you decided to devote years of your life to practicing to be highly skilled doesnt mean its a highly skilled profession. How about you get out of training and into the actual work force and talk to me then.
Go to a trade school or community college and take classes to learn to take test to get your certificates or go to a trade union hall practice all you want for free, get apprenticeship, pass test get certs cash checks.
That sounds like a real shit job. I prefer doing different shit every day, having from may to september off and still making 130K a year but thats me. Also I can retire at 55 and draw a 5k a month pension. To each their own.
You actually need several years of trade-school to be a professional specialist welder...
And my commie ass laughs at your "3 weeks vacation", as if that is something to brag about
Your image came from a Canadian job board listing, you fucking nigger.
Welding is pleb-tier and no welder has ever gotten close to the 1% tax bracket.
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What's your masters in?
I'm sorry Dave, I'm afraid I can't do that
Average for 1% is 500+K. Not all people get these scenarios right out of the gate. Trades are trendy now because theres nothing else to do. The number one indicator of success is your father's wealth. Period
The pay stats from places like the BLS are base pay. I get massive overtime and tripple pay sometimes on top of per diem or "safety pay". The potential is there for people who want to learn their trade instead of just show up and lay down shit tier beads for lawn equipment.
>I get massive overtime and tripple pay sometimes on top of per diem or "safety pay"
You're still huffing fumes and sweating your balls off in some boiler room for a middle-class lifestyle.
That ain't anywhere close to being 1%, nigger, no matter how much overtime you think you get.
>welding in the CURRENT YEAR
>highly profitable
>spend 20 years working 70 hours a week
You.
Read:
There would be no issue at all if the one percent were so poor. The crucial thing is that they also enjoy disproportionate power and want to overturn civilization.
>overturn civilization
More like bend it to their ever capricious whims
No shit bro I never made the claim I was some baller but Im no desk jockey with a soul draining job for shit pay either. As for the health effects most of that shit has been minimized these days. We have powered air supplies and shit now, radiation checks, breathing test and all kinds of stuff.
You think all of these people sitting sedentary in desk jobs are going to be any healthier? Id rather leave my family something and have made shit that last and have time to spend with them than live a long solo poor existence.
more like work 5 years if your lucky before you get fired and replaced by some chink who works for next to nothing across the sea
Using the employers tools resources and contacts, while working for his company, knowing his boss' insurance covers him if anything goes wrong
>Im no desk jockey with a soul draining job for shit pay either.
There are plenty of non-desk jobs that pay a lot more and don't suck half as much as welding, though.
>You think all of these people sitting sedentary in desk jobs are going to be any healthier?
If they're making more money and working less than you, then yes.
There's a direct correlation between income and health.
Repeat after me. Welding is an art. That what I learned when I was in college at least. I'm not a welder but it was part of a course that never got finished. I was pretty damn good at it though.
At a job the employee agreed to do. Nobody is FORCED to work, except in socialist venezuela. If the worker doesn't like how he is paid, he can fuck off and go work at McDonalds