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   On 2/15/26 18:16, Socialism is for losers wrote:   
   > On Sun, 15 Feb 2026 16:15:08 -0500, -hh   
   >  wrote:   
   >   
   >> On 2/14/26 16:50, Socialism is for losers wrote:   
   >>> On Sat, 14 Feb 2026 16:24:01 -0500, -hh wrote:   
   >>>   
   >>>> On 2/14/26 15:27, chine.bleu wrote:   
   >>>>>> Mars Sellus  wrote in news:20260213114004.39a10137@z-z:   
   >>>>>>> ...   
   >>>>>>>   
   >>>>>>> How 'moral' was it to invite criminal e'illegals like la Tren de Aragua   
   >>>>>>> into our nation as Bidumb did?   
   >>>>>>>   
   >>>>>>> You exterminable, treasonous greaseball.   
   >>>>>>>   
   >>>>>>> 30 million ILLEGALS taking our jobs away because you female-minded   
   >>>>>>> leftards had a collective crush on brown peepo, fucking A!   
   >>>>>   
   >>>>> Show us how manly you are. San Joaquin Valley needs orange harvesters.   
   >>>>> Share your paycheck for eight hours of work.   
   >>>>   
   >>>> With a pic of the oranges ;-)   
   >>>>   
   >>>>   
   >>>> In the meantime, I volunteered to help out a LSB this week who had run   
   >>>> into an unexpected labor shortage problem.  I literally wasn't expecting   
   >>>> anything for it, but it ended up being ~$145 Net for just ~5.5 hours of   
   >>>> my free time.   
   >>>>   
   >>>> At $25/hr (Net), that's probably an hourly rate higher than any job that   
   >>>> "Mars" has had in their life.   
   >>>>   
   >>>>   
   >>>> -hh   
   >>>   
   >>>   Hughie brags about making 25 dollars an hour....   
   >>   
   >> No, just surprise because as I stated, I was volunteering.   
   >   
   > It's not volunteering if you get paid...  even a paltry wage of 25   
   > dollars an hour.   
      
   Correct, but the point was that I had volunteered, and had neither   
   asked, nor expected anything in return.   
      
      
   >> It was directed at Mars, who has fled.  But you're welcome to take the   
   >> arrow:  in what year did you exceeded $25/hr in your career (if ever)?   
   >   
   >  Without looking it up, I'd say it was early or mid 1980s   
   > that I made over $50K annually, but I'd not for hourly wages since   
   > about 1970.   
      
   Better go back and actually look it up instead of shooting off the cuff.   
      
   Because total household income in that era was half as much, as was also   
   the average salaries for college graduates.   
      
   FYI, here's a reference for 1983 pay at varying experience levels:   
      
      
   The actuarial exercise of the remaining mortality fraction of those who   
   had seniority 40+ years ago to be over $4K/mo ... is left to the reader.   
      
      
   -hh   
      
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