# Occupy Wallstreet **URL:** \ **Category:** Shift518 Off Topic\ **Created:** [September 29, 2011, 12:57pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/occupy-wallstreet/260647 "2011-09-29T12:57:52Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 51
**Author:** ![Upstate](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/b3f665/32.png) [@Upstate](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/Upstate)\ **Post date:** [October 4, 2011, 8:04am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/occupy-wallstreet/260647/51 "2011-10-04T08:04:37Z")
> [@Picked up a 99 1.8T 5spd Avant for the wifey today..](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/picked-up-a-99-1-8t-5spd-avant-for-the-wifey-today/44632/64): > > So you again are telling me that you wouldn’t take a $20k raise if 75% of it was taxed? > > Then you simply don’t like money. No, because my boss would be expecting me to put $20,000 worth of effort in for the $5,000 I’d be getting. If you think about it with your head it’s just not worth it. Someone doesn’t just get a raise because their boss likes them, there are strings attached to that. And the employer doesn’t care that you aren’t getting the whole amount, they just know that they are paying it out. The problem here is you have no concept of where this money comes from. You seem to think employers just have stacks of cash laying around where they can throw out bonuses and raises to their middle class employees, who will then fork 50-75% of it over to the government. It’s unrealistic and frankly a little astonishing that people actual think that’s how business works. It’s not; just ask Friendly’s. --- _[View the full topic](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/occupy-wallstreet/260647)._