Hoisting Jacks and Laying Tracks (ft. metal_gear88)
Added 2022-05-26 23:44:04 +0000 UTC
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I do accounting and have a lawn care client. He's about 50/50 on gringos and Spanish speakers. Most of his Hispanics are legit these days, but he there is still a middle ground for just working a couple days for someone. If you pay someone as a "contractor" rather than "employee", if they make less than $600 from you, you don't have any paperwork to file on your end other than keeping receipts or whatever showing that it was a real business expense. But if someone doesn't want to be on payroll, you can still pay them as a contractor, you just have to give them form 1099 at the end of the year, which is like a W2 in the sense that it is telling the IRS, "Hey this guy made x money from me, he better report it on his tax return."
AaronChBurns
2022-05-30 14:44:09 +0000 UTCChildren = game over in the minds of the people I live around. I hear it a lot. I still think things being better would change this for a lot of people, but I think you hit the nail on the head with the GenX cultural attitudes mixed with media thing.
ProfileGuyHeyyyyyy
2022-05-29 23:12:49 +0000 UTCThe birth rate thing is cultural, but the cultural shift was of course driven by markets. The eternal adolescence which the boomers invented and Gen X perfected is now THE American dream. Reality TV and social media have made it universal even in rural backwards places like where I live. People want "experiences" which can be photographed and posted and retold at parties. Economics plays a part - I hired a 23 year old college grad a few years back who was years into a relationship and waiting to get married until she could afford a $10k wedding. The relationship didn't survive long enough to get there. She wanted something that would love up to media images of a beautiful event rather than a rinky dink hick wedding. I've known people who make way more than me and won't have kids because of the expense. (I'm raising 5 on $50k.) But more than that kind of personal finance calculus, I think people just don't want to close off opportunities for "bucket list" experiences, and marriage and parenthood close a lot of doors permanently. The positive aspects of that are just not shown to us anywhere now.
Zebulon
2022-05-29 18:09:08 +0000 UTC
