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lol

it wouldn't be homer if he didn't act unreasonable just for that to blow up in his face

if only homer accepted the 500K settlement from burns' hit-n-run on Bart.

If homer was smart there are TONS of times he could’ve been rich

Stonks

D’Oh!

Well in the episode where he was he says he gets paid by getting to keep what's ever in the Targets wallet or pockets

@@Centurian-mt1ob He means how Vox determined that in 2:00

That's what actuaries are for..

2:05 if anybody wants to see

Body count 😂

Or the people who made this video

The writers don’t “think” about anything, they know everything

They're not saying that the writers thought this, they're using it as an analogy for net growth economies, and the "middle-class squeeze".

But why did they show his paycheque? Like it’s a weird thing to add for the show but they did. They knew what they were doing for sure

​@SMA2343 i very much doubt they did. They just needed a salary to show for the joke.

Learn about the plight of the American middle-class, and why the Simpsons so successfully appeals to so many of them.

We are all Homer J. Simpson

Learn about the horrible effect of privatisation, the consecration of wealth and neoliberal economic policies damning effects on the average American person.

Find out what happened in the 70's and onward to make the wages and productivity lines move away from each other on the graph.

richard nixon made gold ILLEGAL

"...In the arms... Of... the angels..."

"why did this happen to me?"

exactly what i was thinking :(

I made my mistakes

Reality is sad

seismic shift civilization collaspse? who knows why us white folks should continue or gdp it all sounds a bit last year ,,I do think 1 world govt is a good idea ..well if they can keep us alive ppl say cornavirus is a flu its not ..i fear I will see the worst case scenarios play out

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curious pug 1:28 bro

Same here exactly 1:20 am as well.

1:23 bro

I don’t need sleep, I need answers

1:30 for me

Rent control.

I'm sure they explain it in one episode. Something about Monica's aunt passing the apartment down meaning the rent stays at the same rate it did when here aunt lived there.

Maelyne Coggins in the last episode, they mention rent control.

This is correct, rent control. But it's illegal, since they pretend granny still lives there. Also Chanandler and Joey are living together, because they can't afford an apartment by themselves. Phoebe and Rachel always have roommates, too. And Phoebe has to live outside where rent is lower. The only one who can properly afford to live by himself is a college professor.

Credit cards to pay off other credit cards etc.

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and a pink donut?lol

Yet oddly inspirational.

Or maybe some Buzz Cola or a Krusty Burger....if you'll excuse me, I'll be at Orlando.

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Why is it sad?

@@GingerBun cause it shows the progression of Homer within a a society where he struggles to overcome the barrier which holds him in the upper lower middle class. It's a correct representation life in America, where no matter how you try if your stuck in that bracket it's nearly impossible to get out.

Me too lol And that's because I saw it when they uploaded it. There's something special about it.

@ninegames That is true, but apart from the content I think the music played a big role in setting the tone of this video.

And “homophobe”

@@puzzles7413 Oooooh, know I understand.

being smarter and more watchable than buzzfeed isn't really that much of an accomplishment

lord flubbernaut do you read what you say

Toaster R indeed i do

Buzzfeed caters to 12 year-old kids who think they're adults!

Tru story. I've grown to hate Buzzfeed so much that i get triggered every time I hear "nifty". Just typing the word makes me want to beak my keyboard.

But he owns the dallas cowboys

He has

He also owns the broncos

Redem10, "You know, I’ve had a lot of jobs: boxer, mascot, astronaut, imitation Krusty, baby proofer, trucker, hippie, plow driver, food critic, conceptual artist, grease salesman, carny, mayor, drifter, bodyguard for the mayor, country western manager, garbage commissioner, mountain climber, farmer, inventor, Smithers, Poochie, celebrity assistant, power plant worker, fortune cookie writer, beer baron, Kwik-E-Mart clerk, homophobe and missionary, but protecting Springfield, that gives me the best feeling of all." Also a source is the "Picture a Day..." spoof where the last few seconds of the spoof shows jobs and other types of Homer before "You Kent Always Say What You Want".[2] According to an interview with Matt Groening, Homer has held 188 jobs in the first 400 episodes.

Homer *simpson* dumbass

For this one video it was.

surely baited you

I love how Vox dabbles into politics, science, statistics, and history. It keeps things interesting.

Build a resume and portfolio that gains a good audience. People do it everyday on youtube. Sadly when I was growing up, youtube and things like google ads did not exist so I did not have the luxury of using my free time to do it. I however was fortunately was young enough to use to the web to learn web development and programming which is what I've been doing for 10 years with no degree and I make above the average middle class wage all simply from building a resume. I hate my job though but I am blessed.

But, this isn't actually about Homer Simpson. I mean .. if you think you are smart enough to come up with a petty comment, you should be smart enough to realize what they want to show.

But this is real world stuff.

That's due to globalization.

yeah. none of that 2016ish garbage

If globalization were the cause then productivity would be down as well as would the incomes of the top earners. But those numbers are up, the middle class numbers are down. It's an unfair distribution of wealth, plain and simple. People are working harder and making less money, unless they were born rich.

Doc, what I saw in the 80s was a passing of power from the WWII generation to the Boomers. There were many significant changes. Much manufacturing was "outsourced" to other nations. I see what people are able to do these days and from the manufacturing perspective "productive" is not a word that comes to mind. GE is in the process of bringing large portions of appliance manufacturing back to New Jersey. But they are not bringing many jobs back. They are automating. So the economy is doing really great, but the people are suffering badly.

At least he's doing something more productive than working for MSNBC

haha

eh it's not all bad

You mean some lucky interns

You make it sound like a bad thing.

Robert Lewis It's both a great (seasons 1-9) and a bad thing (seasons 10+) at the same time

Incorrect, the number was $847.63 until the HD intros, which placed the number at $486.52

All three numbers where used

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So that's what that says!

He is not exactly good with finance. "20 dollars.... awww I wanted a peanut"

Yeah I always thought he was somewhat affluent and I did not see his home as 'modest'. That job looks very technical

homer simpson is no longer a loser. economics wise he never was a loser.

Billy R Good Idea

He kept getting dumber every season too until a season or two ago, now he's still din but not rediculously dim

There's actually a good video that talks about that, on how the Simpsons changed from season 8 onwards, it's called "the fall of the Simpsons"

they established Bart as smart in the 2nd episode of the entire show. they follow the funny rule of comedy, where anything is permitted as long as it gets a laugh, regardless of it breaking rules or established norms

SunaArashi how does that connect at all to the original comment

Interns man, interns. Corporates like vox don't give a damn about the things those interns had to go through

HowlingSnail. Nah people get paid for that too

Homerphobe

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It is, You can make quite some dough as a priest.

Tis, i get paid for it

There's other people that have compiled lists of all the jobs he's had. It's not that hard to just type in the average salaries for jobs from a list.

Username checks out. Avatar... not so much.

my only question.... Why?

SimpleWolf If you can get paid for it, why not?

Mellow Yellow Reddit.

When you took over Mr Burn’s position at the power plant

Well, actually, we had an opening but a john doe took that up yesterday. Contact htz.eboc@darknetgmail.com and check back periodically

Hit man probably has multiple meanings.

i hit on men, does that make me a hitman?

That's a bit low of pay for assassination. I know that if I were a hitman, I wouldn't take that kind of chump change. Frankly, if you're putting yourself(and others) on the line like that, you should get some serious cash out of it at the least. Not that I have any interest in being a hitman myself.

I've always heard that the average hitman charges 10K per head. So if you kill 12 people a year, yeah.

"Thats a good thing" - bernie sanders (line up for food quote)

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Researching homer simpson and actually finding something relevant and interesting to us today, over a 30 year span *is* what makes Vox intelligent, you dolts.

hmmmm jelly beans, noice.

+ahafsajdfnsks you did not understand the video

...nobody said anything about being useful. That was only you, not the op.

Numberphile?

Numberphile is my source, actually. I've never seen a Simpson episode in my life, but I sure keep up with that channel.

Well, I didn't exist for a considerable portion of that time, and the last time I watched television was at least three years ago.

Lol I can relate. Have never watched an episode either. Not having a tv makes a big difference, but simply not caring about the show.. Yea I can see how.

Are you supporting a family?

12k a year? Boi, you broke asf. LOL

=(

I make almost 30 and I’m in 1st year of apprenticeship lol

What do you do? im hoping its part time

im a cuber

im a circle

be there or be square

meta

Bad joke

That name again?

It doesn't necessarily need to show all your jobs. Just what is relevant to the job for which you are applying.

That's just a worse version of SciShow.

But Joss Fong is so pretty.

But with presenters with less annoying voices then WatchMojo

It's like nerdwriter1 with more resources, workers, and a bigger budget

It has nowhere near the level of thought put into it though, and one of the reasons for that is that it has greater resources, workers, and budget.

I think Lisa might not allow him to. Flanders might. But then, I am not American so i wouldn't know.

Don't know about Flanders. WOuldn't he be more of a Ted Cruz-guy? (because of the emphasis on religion? non-american aswell, so what do I know)

+Phrancis5, I'd think Homer wouldn't vote

+Gorattin I'd think Ned Flanders would probably go for a Lindsey Graham :P

Homer just wouldn't vote, Marge would probably go Democrat.

ohhh damn I forgot that

every country has a middle class, it's based on income and doesn't mean anything outside of economic analysis

If you're middle class and like to complain a lot, you're working class

Almost everybody in the US thinks that they're middle class. It's socially unacceptable to be wealthy or poor, so people either exaggerate or downplay their wealth, pretending that they're middle class. However, at the same time, income inequality is increasing, so the middle class is shrinking.

+4one14 There are people under the poverty line who have jobs...

Matt Sezer There is a similar thing in the UK.

Obviously the Simpsons already did it. He would vote Trump, but he's voting Hillary to save his marriage.

Only retards would vote for trump, so.. yes, he would.

lets hope they dont

+Sid Grim 0.02 cents have been deposited into your account

no dont do that vox

hes also a cartoon

Fuzzysc They're also analyzing him as if he were real.

errorproxy I hope one day I'll be real

The Simpsons was orginally satire of other sit-coms and average American life, and it's still vaguely the latter, so I'd say the parallels between Homer and the lower middle class income are intentional.

I... don't think he was complaining?

"why is my pay so low" is not literal, its humor... ever watched the simpsons?

That's because he's complaining about the newly added $5 bear tax, which he led the initiative for. It took his yearly salary from $24,655 to $24,395.

Actual nuclear safety inspector's make around $100,000 a year, but of course that depend's on if you are working for the government or not. private companies (like the one homer work's at) could pay less.

Lmfaooooo yes

Well, to be fair, they used it to determine his payment per hour, which would probably stay the same week to week.

Da Dodo -- Unemployed?? Forever???

It was only abnormally low because of the bear tax or whatever it was.

He said it was abnormally low because of the bear gas however the bear tax was $5

How about its the only time you ever see how much the man makes

That's the joke.

You've obviously never seen "Homer goes to College ".

While Marge is pregnant with Maggie, Homer barges into Mr. Burns' office and demands a job at the expense of his undying and humiliating loyalty. Pre-dating this, in a prior episode, occupational hazards are such a problem at the plant and Homer organizes a safety strike, to which he is appointed as the official safety technician. He also has a stint in college following a nuclear safety incident in order to keep his job. But, to answer your question, he works at a nuclear power planet because this is a cartoon that didn't require any kind of concrete lore in the 90s, or now for that matter ^_^

Even the janitor?

In the Frank Grimes episode Homer says he just showed up at the plant he didn't even know what it was

if you notice you can see that the income tries to catch up to the productivity, then we have the 1st Bush era which does nothing to help it, Clinton era makes it rise quite the bit but with Obama and George W it just plain crashes

The middle class stopped growing in the late 1960's. During the Johnson era.

Did you watch the video or nah? Its growth stopped keeping pace with the growth in productivity in 1980

Trickle down economics and money in politics.. You can buy politicians if you are rich..

Bad inflation in the 70s...

Four years have passed, I'm in a similar situation except not in US. I hope you navigated your way out of student debt and got your dream job/career.

If were back on the gold standard, both the working and middle class would be well off. Governments taxes and fees are destroying the middle class. The Liberals of this world, love to tax and spend. And this is the result.

The US still functions (for all intents and purposes) on the Ancien Regime model: The First Estate is the economic elite (1% of the population), the Second Estate is politicians and bureaucrats (less powerful and smaller than the First Estate), and the Third Estate is everybody else (>98% of the population).

Which is exactly how they wrote his character and never hid it whatsoever