Matt (zeldatra)'s status on Thursday, 30-Aug-18 22:29:42 UTC

Matt

Some writer for Vox figured out through a season-seven episode of The Simpsons that Homer Simpson makes about $37k per year (when adjusted for 2016 inflation--today the amount would probably be similar). Now apparently, in Springfield, Oregon (Oregon being the place that Matt Groening grew up, with Portland being the apparent inspiration for Springfield), that's middle class, but the Simpson family is simultaneously a) bad with money, b) poor enough that everything in their house (which owned by their next-door neighbor) is broken, stolen from their landlord, or decades old, a $100 expense pushes them into poverty, they don't have insurance, Homer has to sell his car seats for gas money, their credit is terrible, and they can't afford Christmas, and c) wealthy enough that they can, many times a year, take unplanned trips to Capital City, Alaska, Cuba, Denmark, New Orleans, New York, Iceland, Japan, New Orleans again, Brazil, Argentina, Seattle, Washington DC, and more. What the hell?