Jason Steen isn’t middle class. He owns a massive media business and despite that, has been arrested several times because his hobbies include wage theft, posting about wage theft, bragging online about how rich wage theft has made him (see above) and drunk texting his highly educated employees taunting them about wage theft.

He’s obnoxiously ostentatiously bourgeois.

Imagine spending 25 THOUSAND DOLLARS and not realizing because it didn't impact your quality of life or housing or ability to obtain food

This is why people think "oh just stop eating out" is valuable advice. They have no idea that people are trying to live with smaller incomes than what the middle class spends on just food alone. Telling an entire class of people to "just get better job" is not a solution either. This just admits that the job is required but people doing the job aren't worthy of comfort or savings.

ordering hooters food for delivery is more perverted than actually going to hooters

That’s not middle class that’s rich kid behavior

Guy seems to be a shitty person and wage thief from other context provided in the comments. Also, terrible taste in food.

However, without that context and going by the post comment, it really seems a bit like unproductive bucket-crabbing and othering of fellow working-class people for winning the genetic lottery and not being born in poverty in a shit, hierarchical system based on inequality. Basically, to me, it seems like doing the work of promoting division in the working-class for free.

Should someone stuck under the thumb of an agricultural or meat processing plant wage-slaver think the same of yourself? World's shit enough without the in-fighting.

Dunk on this guy because he's a wage thief or has no culinary taste, not because he makes at least enough to rent a cardboard box in a nice part of Stockton.

Copy-pasting my comment from the previous thread:

(link to Tweet)

At first, I assumed it was satire.

Then, I went to his Twitter profile and it didn't look like satire but I couldn't understand how an editor for (what I assumed to be) a local newspaper could make enough to blow $25K/year on delivery.

But looking through the replies, I found someone link to this article

Jason Steen, the owner of hyper-local, digital media operations critics say sensationalize arrests that are minor, violent, graphic, bizarre or just embarrassing, is preparing for his own public brush with criminal and civil legal matters.

Steen's former employees at Scoop: Clarksville claim he owes tens of thousands in wages, dating to November. He's facing at least four pending civil suits. His next court date is scheduled for March 31.  

and this one

Rising comedian Josh Black has set his sights on Scoop: Nashville, the local outlet most notorious for posting mugshots of recent and embarrassing arrests. Black also takes aim at the site’s founder, Jason Steen, for recent disparaging comments made about Black women activists — and in response, Steen posted a since-deleted tweet that he would "restart" the practice of publishing victims' names and addresses.

“For some reason, Scoop: Nashville likes to attack poor and working class people,” says Black in the opening of a new video, citing the mugshot-shaming that grew the website’s brand. He adds that the website especially targets Black people, people experiencing homelessness and those struggling with substance abuse. “He’s consciously assisting in the mass incarceration of Black people.”

Black also points to the shockingly high incarceration rate in North Nashville, saying, “Scoop: Nashville is handing out a hotline number … so you can get more of them locked up.” The comedian also mentions that Steen has a criminal record as well — a felony theft charge against Steen came up during his bid for circuit court clerk in Montgomery County.

The mugshot-posting has also been a source of profit — as Black notes, the site and others owned by Steen charged money for the removal of such posts. (The options no longer appear to be on Scoop sites, though Steen’s defense of the practice out of state remains online.) Steen is also pleased with the advertising he gets from bail bond companies.

and it all started to make sense...

Fat Shack??

I can't believe anyone still uses twitter, I just tried to look this clown up but twitter keeps shitting itself and not loading anything correctly

What kind of sick person likes the food from Hooter's enough to buy it on Door Dash?

Actually paying to have hooters and cracker barrel delivered????

Suddenly I feel less bad about the amount of money I spend on forty year old computers

I probably have my own set of disagreeable vices, but this is a wild amount of cash for marked up, shit food.

Hey, if jason wasn't spending $3000 at chili's, who's going to help our teachers make ends meet?

This dumbass spends my family's restaurant budget on Applebee's alone, jfc. That, and it's delivery Applebee's.

This mf spent more on fast food in one year than I have in over a decade.

This is horribly disgusting.🤢

That's obscene.

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