Jon Matthews

@KhanSaba1278 Is tipping a custom in South Asia?

My husby and I went out to dinner last night, and the bill came out to $200. I left a $50 tip on the table, thinking that was pretty reasonable. But the waiter looked at it and flat-out refused to take it. He told us that if we weren’t willing to leave at least $85, we shouldn’t be eating out in the first place. I was honestly caught off guard. I felt embarrassed sitting there, like we’d done something wrong. We weren’t trying to be cheap or disrespectful — I genuinely thought $50 was a fair tip for that bill. Now I keep replaying the whole thing in my head, wondering if I misjudged it and questioning whether $50 really wasn’t enough.😱

@OrevaZSN A billionaire?! I don’t think any entity or billionaire has ever said that. And are you talking West or Central African francs? 😂

The most successful brainwashing I’ve ever witnessed is the idea that anyone can become a billionaire. Some of you genuinely believe you'll get there one day, so you defend the ultra rich and oppose taxing them.

@MmisterNobody North America just ain’t what it used to be is it?

Nobody smiles anymore. It feels like most people are running on autopilot, glued to their smartphones and disconnected from the world around them. You see it everywhere: airports, offices, restaurants, gyms. People move through the same routines, following scripts handed to them by society, rarely stopping to question anything.

@0xDavecryps I’m sure he appreciates your condolences from Africa.

A friend’s dad bought a house in 1991 for $58,000. That same house is worth about $1.35 million today. He’s the only child. For years, he quietly assumed that house would be part of his future someday. Last month, his parents sold it. The money is funding their retirement. He found out over dinner. Just sat there. Nodded. Smiled. Said, “Good for you, Dad.” Then he went home and did the math. $1,350,000. Gone before he ever saw a dollar of it. The baby boomer generation didn’t just win the housing market once. They bought homes when they were affordable. Then they sold them after decades of appreciation. They won it twice.

@chron Don’t understand why sexual preferences have anything at all to do with baseball.

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@MikeMatthewsua @ThrillaRilla369 😂 Likewise… good bloodline.

@mitake111 @ThrillaRilla369 Nice last name too!

I'm not jealous of rich people. I don't need a gold leaf wagyu steak to feel complete. I'm angry that a handful of people hoard all the money while the middle class shrinks and poverty reaches crisis levels.

@skumWgmi They call them boomers in South Asia too?

Boomers are the first generation to enter adulthood richer than their parents and leave their children poorer than themselves. In human history that has never happened before. They didn't build the American dream. They borrowed against it. Gen Z is paying the mortgage.

@Cantrushit A lot of opinions in Nigeria.

Boomers bought houses for 3x their salary. We skip coffee and still get called entitled. The house didn’t get more expensive — the system did. Change my mind. 💸

@omgsidewalks The system in Africa?

This system doesn’t reward labor; it exploits it. The myth that poor people just need to “work harder” is nonşense. Most poor people actually work longer hours doing harder jobs for lower pay.

@middle_class_us I think the true failure is in plain site. “Go to college… get a degree… work hard” should have been, “work hard… earn a degree that pays or learn a trade… work hard… learn what makes people in your space successful… be smart… work hard”. Trust funds are few… compete.

The cruelest part of what happened to Gen Z is not the debt. It is not the job market or the rent. It's that they were handed all of it while being told the tools that built previous generations still work. Go to college. Get a degree. Work hard. Buy a house. Save for retirement. Every single piece of that advice was written for an economy that no longer exists. And the people still giving that advice built their entire lives in the economy that does not exist anymore.

@Cantrushit When comfort, convenience, and socialism are embraced, while work, sacrifice, and capitalism are rejected… you get what you get.

Did boomers really fuck us over, or was the economic situation they grew up in one-in-a-lifetime and unsustainable?

@ThoughtsSending I think you are confusing mathematics and propaganda by calling both “science”.

@Rakeshhkumaar It produces opportunity. The rest is up to us.

If capitalism is so efficient at economic calculation, why does it produce homelessness alongside empty homes, hunger alongside food surpluses, and poverty alongside immense wealth?

@hashjenni 😂 Give it two years and see what Utopia looks like.

You know what Mamdani taxed the rich and then suddenly libraries started to work, potholes got fixed, childcare exists, and workers get paid more. That's why billionaires are losing it and want him gone!!!

@OrevaZSN When “global warming” was first used, it immediately followed “global cooling”. But sane people just call them seasons.

When “global warming” was first used, scientists warned people might think it means “everywhere gets hotter.” One expert said people aren’t that dense and would understand it’s global, and that local weather patterns would just become more erratic. Evidently, he was wrong.

@COgirlWIworld “Tourism”. I think I will take that trade.

Good. Stay out of the US. It’s the bad place right now. Can’t wait until it’s not anymore. 🥹

@AlZeidenfeld If robotics ever become advanced and economic enough to make and serve me a good cheeseburger, they will get a lot of business from me. I might even be inclined to tip that robot.

Pretending that fast food jobs are for “Teens that need weekend work” is about the dumbest narrative ever created. Who do you think is working while school is in session 9 months out of the year? It’s a job, just like any other job. Pay the workers a living wage.

@AlZeidenfeld Basic economics may as well be rocket science to socialists.

@OrevaZSN In a historical sense, that is a pretty good deal. Envy is a killer of joy you and many others love.

It's wild to me that people can work 8 hours a day, 5 days a week, for 60 years and still argue this is the best system humanity can come up with, while defending people who make their entire net worth in 30 seconds and insisting they shouldn't be taxed more.

@KhanSaba1278 I’m just wondering how many suburban lawns are mowed on the daily in South Asia.

Warm weather is back, which apparently means my neighbor has officially entered “shirtless yard work season” again 😭 Look, I get it—it’s hot outside. If you’re out mowing the lawn or doing projects for hours, you’re gonna want to be comfortable. But when it turns into multiple hours of shirtless yard work right in full view of the street… I’m not gonna lie, it starts getting a little awkward after a while 😬 I’m not trying to turn it into some big neighborhood drama or anything. I just feel like basic neighbor courtesy still matters. Maybe I’m overthinking it, but there’s a difference between quickly doing yard work in the heat and basically turning the front yard into a full-on outdoor gym performance for the whole block 💀 Would you actually say something to a neighbor about this, or just ignore it and move on?