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Re: the working poor in the US stand up

Post by test_recordings » Thu Sep 12, 2013 2:51 am

If you've got skills it's easier. But then you could freelance from home? My mate gets a bit of business locally but 90% of his money comes through his website.

Do you need a visa to go to the UK from SA though?
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Re: the working poor in the US stand up

Post by DrSpliff » Thu Sep 12, 2013 8:26 am

test recordings wrote:If you've got skills it's easier. But then you could freelance from home? My mate gets a bit of business locally but 90% of his money comes through his website.

Do you need a visa to go to the UK from SA though?
I have an ancestral UK visa.
The major reason for my move to the UK is because I used to work on megayachts in France, and it's a hell of alot cheaper getting from England to France than from South Africa to France... that costs about 1500 Euro, South Africans can only get 3 month visa's for France, so it'll be much cheaper to go back to England every 3 months to reapply for the French visa.

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Re: the working poor in the US stand up

Post by Electric_Head » Thu Sep 12, 2013 8:36 am

NAS is that you??
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Re: the working poor in the US stand up

Post by Pedro Sánchez » Thu Sep 12, 2013 8:52 am

This is NAS, come in...over.
Genevieve wrote:It's a universal law that the rich have to exploit the poor. Preferably violently.

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Re: the working poor in the US stand up

Post by test_recordings » Thu Sep 12, 2013 2:23 pm

DrSpliff wrote:
test recordings wrote:If you've got skills it's easier. But then you could freelance from home? My mate gets a bit of business locally but 90% of his money comes through his website.

Do you need a visa to go to the UK from SA though?
I have an ancestral UK visa.
The major reason for my move to the UK is because I used to work on megayachts in France, and it's a hell of alot cheaper getting from England to France than from South Africa to France... that costs about 1500 Euro, South Africans can only get 3 month visa's for France, so it'll be much cheaper to go back to England every 3 months to reapply for the French visa.
Makes sense. Ancestral visa though, can you pass that shit on to your kids?
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Re: the working poor in the US stand up

Post by DrSpliff » Thu Sep 12, 2013 2:58 pm

Yeah you can. My grandfather is English, so my dad has full citizenship and I get an ancestral visa. After 5 years of living in England I'll gain full citizenship.

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Re: the working poor in the US stand up

Post by Pedro Sánchez » Thu Sep 12, 2013 3:19 pm

Look m8 britan is full n so is dubstep.
Genevieve wrote:It's a universal law that the rich have to exploit the poor. Preferably violently.

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Re: the working poor in the US stand up

Post by MrBlack » Thu Sep 12, 2013 6:13 pm

Can I get an ancestral visa to Zion bro?
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Re: the working poor in the US stand up

Post by mks » Thu Sep 12, 2013 11:21 pm

Damn, I should have an ancestral visa for Norway, the Netherlands and England at the very least.

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Re: the working poor in the US stand up

Post by Soiree » Thu Sep 12, 2013 11:28 pm

change is coming. 1/78 archetypes can't be wrong.
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Re: the working poor in the US stand up

Post by bigfootspartan » Fri Sep 20, 2013 2:31 am

collige wrote: Why do you think it's acceptable for an employer to pay a full time worker so little that they can't afford to support themselves, especially when they're turning a huge profit?
I really don't get this point and yet people make it all the time. If I start up a business and invest my own resources to make it grow, I don't understand how the workers I hired (who have not risked or invested a single penny) somehow have an intrinsic right to make more money. I don't understand how reaping the rewards of my risk/investment all of a sudden makes me a terrible person as a business owner.

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Re: the working poor in the US stand up

Post by test_recordings » Fri Sep 20, 2013 8:22 am

Not paying your workers enough to live off is a no no though, that's what the problem is. Also those workers give YOU money so I wouldn't get too cocky about believing the boss deserves all the credit
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Re: the working poor in the US stand up

Post by Pedro Sánchez » Fri Sep 20, 2013 9:06 am

bigfootspartan wrote:
collige wrote: Why do you think it's acceptable for an employer to pay a full time worker so little that they can't afford to support themselves, especially when they're turning a huge profit?
I really don't get this point and yet people make it all the time. If I start up a business and invest my own resources to make it grow, I don't understand how the workers I hired (who have not risked or invested a single penny) somehow have an intrinsic right to make more money. I don't understand how reaping the rewards of my risk/investment all of a sudden makes me a terrible person as a business owner.
Never start a business that you cant run by yourself if you can't wrap your head around that simple idea.
Genevieve wrote:It's a universal law that the rich have to exploit the poor. Preferably violently.

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