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    And tiny Tim’s illness didn’t give his family medical bankruptcy forcing them to lose their form of shelter.

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    To be fair, I doubt those ghosts would even bother trying to convince a modern CEO. They’d go straight to the graveyard scene and bury them alive.

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    And It’s A Wonderful Life saying in 1946:

    Do you know how long it takes a working man to save $5,000?

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      it’s not at all possible for roughly 2/3rds of americans since they live paycheck to paycheck.

      growing up in a home like that really makes you REALLY appreciate having $5k in the bank.

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    Converts it to CAD and looks up Canadian min wage

    Oh my god….

    To be fair though, Nunavut’s min wage is technically higher