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Raising 5.4M, Reading Rainbow wants a full-time FCPX editor for 25K/year
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[Andrew Kimery] “One person, who saw this ad posted on a FB group, said they’d be willing to help out pro bono because they believed in the cause so much.
“Pro bono full time?
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[Gary Huff] “Pro bono full time?”
The person on FB just said they’d be willing to help out pro bono and I assume after the contact RR they’ll see what, if anything, can be worked out. I doubt they were offering full time pro bono indefinitely, but maybe they are independently wealthy and need a hobby?
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[Andrew Kimery] “maybe they are independently wealthy and need a hobby?”
aka the future of video production!
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[John Davidson] “By my estimation it pays about 30k more than most craigslist jobs.”
Ha! So true, so wise John.
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Perhaps those that were harmed from slavery are owed something. Native Americans and holocaust survivors too. I won’t debate that. I’ll leave that for deeper thinkers than I to figure out. There aren’t many easy answers there. Who should pay for the Jews hardships? An entire race was nearly wiped out. But the criminals mostly that commuted the atrocities were wiped out as well. There are likely holocaust survivors of all sorts entering nursing homes that obviously didn’t have life handed to them. These are tough issues with no real easy answers.
As to your grandmothers situation, if the nursing home were being paid for by govt then she certainly is getting back more than she paid in. And I certainly realize that nursing homes are expensive. I don’t know if they’re lining their pockets or not. But if they are, why isn’t there a chain of reasonably priced decent nursing homes out there? Or if they’re so insanely lucrative why aren’t there more? We have a couple and it’s my understanding they stay pretty full. When I try to do the math regarding the costs, I have no basis to even guess at the hidden costs of a 24hr medical staff and other staff essentially doing cooking, cleaning, maintenance, etc.. However, if you weren’t in a nursing home, a small apartment could easily cost $1500 a month plus utilities. Weekly maid service hundreds a month. Some sort of transportation, a few hundred. Food $500 a month. And if you’re in a nursing home vs assisted living, then likely you needed 24hr care. An in home caregiver could cost half as much as a nursing home and you’d still be left with mortgages, food, utilities (and a roommate!). So I know very little about nursing home actual expenses, but the more I think about the costs, 6k still seems high, but I assume they want to make a 25% profit on top of their costs. Liability insurance is probably a nightmare too. Maybe 6k isn’t as high as it sounds. When you add up my mortgage, car, utilities, food, it’s probably 3k a month. If I needed a full time live in nurse wouldn’t that easily be another 2k a month? I know there should be an economy of scale in a nursing home, but their pricing is likely hitting a number a 6k/month that leaves relatives saying, well, it’d be almost that if she had her own apt with 24hr nursing care. And then, who does the shopping? When does that nurse get to take time off? Almost need two people!
So yeah, life is going to get expensive. As the father of a child with muscular dystrophy you can bet I know that. And we’re all a product of our lifetime of decisions. Your grandmother chose a low paying career and if that was her only income it probably has made her later years tougher on her and her relatives wallets. My son didn’t choose his ailment, but yet I’m still not a big government fan and try to stay objective about it.
For example lets say your grandmother only made $8k a year from ages 20-70. 50 years. She would have paid in 1200 a year to social security. That’s $60k. Sounds like she’ll get that back a few times over. Good deal right? But had she been allowed to invest that 15% in even a modest fund averaging 6.5% compounded interest she’d have $425k banked up. And these days, had it all been in a Roth, it’d be tax free. So that’s some of my math. I’ve often said, even now, that I’ll gladly hand over all the money I’ve put in and want nothing back if I could opt out of the system. Because obviously I could easily do better with that cash than the govt. but that would never be an option as the money I’m putting in is gone. It’s not earning interest. It’s not being used to help the economy. It’s being used to pay for the welfare of our grandparents. And good for them, they paid into it. And they SHOULD get back 10x what they put into it because that’s the kind of money they could have made had they invested it instead. They were robbed by the biggest Ponzi scheme around. The govt doesn’t have money or even earn money they simply spend the earnings of others and that’s a huge amount of power to wield around that shouldn’t be taken lightly. If the govt can mandate I spend $850/mo on insurance why don’t they mandate we invest 10% of our take home pay? It’s certainly be a far better, less riskier investment that would leave us all better off (and less reliant on govt and others) when we’re old. And that’s good for everybody.
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[Bret Williams] “I certainly realize that nursing homes are expensive. I don’t know if they’re lining their pockets or not.”
If I had to guess, I would say that they are charging sky high prices because they know that Medicaid and Medicare is going to pick it up.
You can’t get blood out of a rock. if people don’t have it you can’t get it. And most won’t have it.
Most people can not afford 6k a month on a fixed income. Heck, most people can’t pay it now at their full income.
If you don’t have it and no medicare then what? People on the streets like before the New Deal?
Good luck selling that plan to people.[Bret Williams] “Your grandmother chose a low paying career”
(my aunt) and what she “chose” was an honorable career helping children learn. As an African American Woman in the 40’s and 50’s in this country I’m sure you are aware that her career paths were quite limited.
I know you are self aware enough to know that, so I’m giving you the benefit of the doubt as
a miss type : )[Bret Williams] “My son didn’t choose his ailment, but yet I’m still not a big government fan”
I don’t know you or your son, but if they take some money from my check to help him or others like him I’m fine with that.
There are only two choices. Government or private. After dealing with Private insurance as a Freelance person and having them asking me if I had anything on their 3 page list of questions, I can’t imagine they would welcome your son with open arms.
So he has to struggle, so Bill McGuire on United Healthcare can get his BBBBBB Billion dollars he got?
[Bret Williams] ” But had she been allowed to invest that 15% in even a modest fund averaging 6.5% compounded interest she’d have $425k banked up.”
Allowed? People are “allowed” to invest in the stock market anytime they want. The stock market is a casino. There is no guarantee you will do well. Let’s say you are half way to retirement Bret, following your example you should have 212K banked right now. It’s just not realistic. Has that last big crash left your memory already? That was the government and the taxpayers that had to bail those fools out, or there wouldn’t even be a market for people to fantasize about.
[Bret Williams] ” Because obviously I could easily do better with that cash than the govt. “
I don’t think you could. See above.
Finally I would say that the government is not some strange thing that is out there. It is the representative
of the people who take the time to vote. We have the new deal because The People wanted it.
More people wanted it in this country than the people who didn’t want it.That’s what America is all about Bret. You got an idea, go out and convince people to get on board.
That’s what I do everyday.
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