Donnie Miller

People look at a $16 starting wage at Target or Costco and smile, claiming the younger generation has it easy. It’s a total nominal dollar delusion. The number on the check went up, but the purchasing power was completely hollowed out. Let’s do the real math based on Labor Hours Required to Survive (2000 vs. 2026): 1. Median Monthly Rent 2000: Average rent was ~$600. At minimum wage ($6.25), it took 96 hours of labor to keep a roof over your head. 2026: Average rent is ~$1,750. At a $16 starting wage, it takes 109 hours. You are working two full extra days a month just to pay a landlord. 2. The Starter "Beater" Car 2000: A reliable, high-mileage starter car cost around $1,200. (Full disclosure: mine was a $500 Cutlass in 1997). At $6.25/hr, you could buy wheels with under 190 hours of summer labor. 2026: Due to inventory squeezes, a high-mileage beater that barely runs averages $6,000. At $16/hr, that requires 375 hours of your life. The barrier to entry just to drive to work has doubled. 3. Purchasing a Median Home 2000: Median US home was $119,600. It equaled roughly 19,100 hours of labor. 2026: Median home has rocketed past $420,000. At $16/hr, it requires over 26,000 hours of labor. 4. The Hidden Insurance Tax 2000: Average annual worker health deduction was ~$1,600 (258 hours of work). 2026: Average worker deduction for family coverage has spiked past $6,800/year (425 hours of labor). I started out making $5.15 at a 7-Eleven on Rutledge in Northeast Austin. Got robbed once... it was pretty invigorating, honestly. But the economics of that entry level job gave you actual breathing room to build a life. Sort of. Today's entry level workers aren't struggling because they are lazy bastards. They are struggling because the modern system demands significantly more hours of human life just to secure the absolute bare minimum. And maybe some are lazy bastards, but being a lazy bastard isn't a new phenomenon.

@HouseLowlights Not true.

Magic Johnson’s son has made the WNBA 🙏

@atomrkwz Yes, don’t ask this question.

Any tips on how to be funny?

@Rapunzel_hnn Penis.

Tell me in one word what your biggest insecurity is.

@rumiiihere Human.

Delete one animal from earth?

@beyoumf Nothing.

what did your father teach you?

@Christine779706 @BernieSanders “To the point of criminal & negligence”

@DonMillerr @BernieSanders Bezos is correct. The facts are our taxes have been totally mishandled to the point of criminal & negligence. Its is a massice crime against we the people. The use of NGO’ds and Udsaid n other is a an exmaple of their corrutpion. Dont gibe them a dime

Mr. Bezos: Let's have that debate. Under my 5% billionaires wealth tax, we'd: -Give $12K to a working family of 4 -Expand Medicare for dental, vision, hearing -Guarantee universal childcare -Raise starting teacher pay to $60K And you'd still be worth $269 billion after taxes.

@Steezehuman Exactly. And if you work 25 hours a day, 8 days a week, it’s practically free. Lock in. True gangsta.

$1m a year is only $384 a day. Lock in brother.

How could you fuck up your with you’re twice? Your expresses ownership, like for example: This is your ticket to the train you have to catch because that’s how you get to your janitor job. You’re is a contraction of “you are” hence you’re. For example: You’re an idiot. Now to the point. Have you ever seen the entire history of the SP500? What is YOUR argument (notice I used YOUR instead of YOU’RE)? Does my macro memory have to stretch back to, to what? Help me understand YOUR argument.

@DonMillerr @Steezehuman If your bullish shares in this market.... then your macro memory does not stretch far enough

Gold is crashing. Silver is crashing. Crypto is crashing. Stocks are crashing. The dollar is crashing. Real talk what should we buy now?

@dcmoore174 @Steezehuman lol, good point.

@DonMillerr @Steezehuman I’d also like to see where water is 110$ a month.

How am I supposed to pay: $2,000 rent $300 power $110 water $180 internet $190 car insurance EVERY MONTH while making $18 an hour???

@Vivek4real_ No, he’s closeted homosexual, a weirdo and money doesn’t buy partners from either side. His personality is probably as dry as 20 year old concrete. Unless you want to talk about the future of bitcoin (which is an oxymoron, but who cares) he has no interest in you, man or woman.

🇺🇸 MICHAEL SAYLOR JUST REVEALED WHY HE IS NOT MARRIED AND HAS NO CHILDREN: “I NEVER FOUND THE RIGHT WOMAN” “I’M DEVOTED TO MY BUSINESS AND PROFESSION”

Only if your reading comprehension is cooked enough to think roasting a broken system means endorsing the guy hoarding the cash. Bezos is just using the government’s leaky bucket as a convenient excuse to never hand over a single drop, but congrats on completely missing the point. I like this.

@DonMillerr @BernieSanders In this case the billionaire is right, right?

The real tragedy isn't that the debt doubled, it's that fixing it requires a political suicide mission nobody has the spine to sign up for. The math is dead simple: you either squeeze the taxpayer, gut the military, or butcher entitlements, but the microsecond a politician says those words out loud, their career is immediately vaporized by the electorate. We don't actually want solutions, we want a reality TV show where our side is flawlessly heroic and the other side is purely demonic. Right now, we are burning through over $1 trillion a year just on interest payments to service the tab, essentially paying a luxury premium on a collective national delusion. Nobody is coming to balance the spreadsheet because the American voter has made the rules clear: lie to us with comfortable fairytales, or we'll replace you with someone who will. So get your popcorn and enjoy the train wreck. Are you this gullible or…?

BREAKING: US National Debt has officially DOUBLED in just 10 years. The US debt has surged from $19.6T at the end of 2016 to $39T today. The US government has been adding debt at a pace of roughly $221 MILLION every single HOUR for the last decade.

@unusual_whales Yeah, I kind of doubt that. Forbes needs revenue too. I get it. Just don’t piss in my face and tell me it’s raining.

Good night to everyone:

@TaraBull Wtf?

Ladies, what exactly is stopping you from achieving this physique?

@kinginvestings None.

What’s one stock you refuse to sell?

@BarbellFi Go for it fag.

My buddy wants to quit his job Rather focus on his side hustle He’s 35 making $230k/year at 9-5 Side hustle makes $48k/year Wife makes $75k/year part time 2 young kids at home Spend $80k/year $1.7 million invested $800k house paid off Share any advice you have for him 🤔

@Mahiixz And if they were smart and had base common sense, they wouldn’t marry until they had some sort of safety net. I would argue that women should probably adhere to the same idea on this one. Brilliant click bait though!

Men without money don't deserve marriage

The holy trinity of out of touch finance bro platitudes. "Avoid debt" is a cute luxury for anyone who didn’t need a mortgage, a car note, or medical care to survive, and "invest regularly" is uselessly vague, invest in what, magic beans? But capping it off with the ancient "make coffee at home" trope is the real chef's kiss. If skipping a $5 latte (or truly in my case a $2.19 20 oz of black coffee) was the secret to generational wealth, the middle class wouldn't be in a structural chokehold. Stop recycling 2012 blog posts and talking down to adults like they're toddlers. Cute post though, I love the hair.

Great financial advice in 8 words: Avoid debt, invest regularly, make coffee at home.

@investwithintel SPY or VOO

You’re 30 and just inherited $250k You have to go all in on one individual stock for the next 15 years. Which stock you picking??

@chutneylife Of course! Plumbers never go to college! You’ve finally hacked the matrix. Brilliant!

My plumber is a multimillionaire. College might be overrated.