Money For Nothing-Is the Sidewalk the new FastLane?

[Green Destiny]

I came across this research paper today https://gallery.MailCheat(Chimp).com/e7cabe1e5d/files/Debt_benefits_immigration.03.pdf and I was flicking through it when I got to page 8.

It turns out that in the UK, if a couple with 3 kids both work 16 hours per week then after benefits they will take on average a salary equivalent to £62,000! This is due to all the bizarre benefit rules we have over here. I looked up where a salary of £62,000 would put you in the income scale in the UK and only 5-6% of people are on a salary higher than this.

So here's the question. If by only working 16 hours per week you can earn a higher wage than 95% of the people in your country, is living on benefits a Fastlane strategy?

 

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[Dwight Schrute]

I came across this research paper today https://gallery.MailCheat(Chimp).com/e7cabe1e5d/files/Debt_benefits_immigration.03.pdf and I was flicking through it when I got to page 8.

It turns out that in the UK, if a couple with 3 kids both work 16 hours per week then after benefits they will take on average a salary equivalent to £62,000! This is due to all the bizarre benefit rules we have over here. I looked up where a salary of £62,000 would put you in the income scale in the UK and only 5-6% of people are on a salary higher than this.

So here's the question. If by only working 16 hours per week you can earn a higher wage than 95% of the people in your country, is living on benefits a Fastlane strategy?

No, that's not a fastlane strategy.

It's the leechlane.

The piss-stain on the sidewalk.

A failure in the system.

The reason why refugees walk through so many safe countries.



Yours sincerly,

A racist bigot right-wing a**hole

 

[JokerCrazyBeatz]

Thats deff not fastlane , thats just a loophole

 

[GuestUserX09]

You should take up copywriting, that title had me hooked.

 

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[Esoteric Wealth]

Using forcibly taken money goes against my values.

 

[RHL]

Nothing has ever been more [HASHTAG]#landfill[/HASHTAG] than this.

 

[Raoul Duke]

I came across this research paper today https://gallery.MailCheat(Chimp).com/e7cabe1e5d/files/Debt_benefits_immigration.03.pdf and I was flicking through it when I got to page 8.

It turns out that in the UK, if a couple with 3 kids both work 16 hours per week then after benefits they will take on average a salary equivalent to £62,000! This is due to all the bizarre benefit rules we have over here. I looked up where a salary of £62,000 would put you in the income scale in the UK and only 5-6% of people are on a salary higher than this.

So here's the question. If by only working 16 hours per week you can earn a higher wage than 95% of the people in your country, is living on benefits a Fastlane strategy?

 

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[MitchC]

If nothing else is stopping you from thinking this is fast lane then here it is, it violates control, need, scale, time and entry.

I guess you could call this the 16 hour work week and sell some books, that would be fast lane.

 

[Green Destiny]

I guess having the wink at the end of my original post wasn't enough to allude that my thoughts on this weren't exactly of a serious nature.

Seems to be a touchy subject by the reaction anyway.

You should take up copywriting, that title had me hooked.

If nothing else is stopping you from thinking this is fast lane then here it is, it violates control, need, scale, time and entry.

I guess you could call this the 16 hour work week and sell some books, that would be fast lane.

Great call! I could do this as a sideline project and learn some copywriting and marketing skills while I'm at it.

Note to self: Never make a joke on TFF again, especially before you are just going to bed. I see my sense of humour is "unappreciated" in these parts.

Ah well, back to work I suppose.

 

[Dwight Schrute]

I guess having the wink at the end of my original post wasn't enough to allude that my thoughts on this weren't exactly of a serious nature.

Seems to be a touchy subject by the reaction anyway.

Note to self: Never make a joke on TFF again, especially before you are just going to bed. I see my sense of humour is "unappreciated" in these parts.

Ah well, back to work I suppose.

Keep cool, nobody here hates you.

It's just not funny. It's sad...

The Business/Retirement Plan

• Migrate to country with the most benefits.
• Get wife pregnant. The more kids, the better.
• From benefit money, buy BMW and Armani suit.
• Success. I'm the shit now.

P.S.

Don't take on stand-up comedy, will ya

 

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[Green Destiny]

Keep cool, nobody here hates you.

It's just not funny. It's sad...

The Business/Retirement Plan

• Immigrate to country with the most benefits.
• Get wife pregnant. The more kids, the better.
• From benefit money, buy BMW and Armani suit.
• Success. I'm the shit now.

P.S.

Don't take on stand-up comedy, will ya

I didn't mean for the tone of my last post to come across as angry, so if that's how it appeared, my apologies. I didn't think people here hated me..........but now I do! Haha.

My dreams of the stand up career now lie in tatters. Crushed. :embarrased:

 

[KOS2186]

I guess having the wink at the end of my original post wasn't enough to allude that my thoughts on this weren't exactly of a serious nature.

Seems to be a touchy subject by the reaction anyway.





Great call! I could do this as a sideline project and learn some copywriting and marketing skills while I'm at it.

Note to self: Never make a joke on TFF again, especially before you are just going to bed. I see my sense of humour is "unappreciated" in these parts.

Ah well, back to work I suppose.

I feel your pain, man.

Many times I've said something, which in my own head sounded so ridiculous that I thought "there's NO way anyone won't realize this is a joke", only to be proven wrong.

Still haven't stopped doing it though.

 

[wind3n]

It's strange to me how it's simultaneously funny yet sad and also infuriating. You know, when the Somali knife attack at Ohio State University happened, I was reading more about Somali refugees in America and found this:

Refugees sending 'suitcases of welfare cash' home to Somalia

Not only are they taking advantage of those that pay their taxes and work to stimulate economy, they are siphoning it off back to their home country.

 

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