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I'll take "things you can do when you're single"... can't quite imagine sidling up to significant other with the gambit "Darling, would you mind terribly if I s
by rhythmofrest 6y ago
I'll take "things you can do when you're single"... can't quite imagine sidling up to significant other with the gambit "Darling, would you mind terribly if I spent £1000 on Kazakhstani emoji domains?"
- tenacious_tuna 6y agoI've come to believe that there's a certain amount of insanity required to be a great entrepreneur. Like Jobs or Musk--their personal qualities aside, they both had arguably legitimately insane visions that they refused to let people talk them out of. The side effect is they're also crazy in other ways (Musk-time and the billionaire-playboy-cyrptocoin-gambler being easy examples), but I think it really does take someone who operates with a totally different set of constraints on the world to pull Really Cool Stuff off. Like reusable rockets. Or electric performance cars. Or an incredibly versatile computer that fits in your pocket (while also giving the middle finger to Flash, the incumbent web media tech at the time).
- hilbertseries 6y agoSteve Job didn’t invent the smartphone and Elon Musk didn’t invent the electric car, they did both make those things cool. Steve Jobs also had a treatable form of pancreatic cancer and died from it, because he refused traditional medicine. You can point to countless inventions and advances in humanity that are not due to crazy asshole geniuses. What happens to people is that the better you are at something, the more willing they are to forgive your flaws. This allows those flaws to grow and grow, to the point where you’re accusing random people that insult you of being pedophiles. But these flaws are not a requisite part of being driven and not giving up.
- baybal2 6y agoThere are way more insane people in mental institutions than insane billionaires.
- bigiain 6y agoHmmm, I wonder if the ratio of "insane billionaires : insane people in mental institutions" correlates to the ratio of "sane billionaires : sane people (presumably not in mental institutions)"? Are you more or less likely too be a billionaire if you're insane? (Is there even such a thing as a "sane billionaire"?)
- throwanem 6y agoIt depends on how we define "sane", doesn't it? If we just mean "not evidently delusional or psychotic", then probably a billionaire is no less likely to be sane than anyone - probably if anything more so, one power of money being that of reliable access to medical care. If we instead by 'sane' mean "firmly grounded and operating within consensus reality", as I once heard the term defined, then I think the question becomes considerably more interesting. (Whose consensus?)
- satellite2 6y agoClassic correlation / causation bias
- tiborsaas 6y agoA common wallet with a SO freaks me out :)
- sangnoir 6y agoYou don't have to go all-in, but a common wallet is very useful as a wash account for common expenses. Having an account just for expenses, with no overdraft, that's usually at $0.00 balance is useful for other purposes too (ACH pull is dangerous! Especially when everyone who has ever looked at your check can do it)
- atleta 6y agoBut why would you do that? I mean if that's you money, why would you ask your partner? I'm pretty frugal, don't spend on stupid things easily (well, things that I find stupid, at least), but if I had a business idea or even a fun project I don't think I'd need permission from my partner to spend my own money on it. Discussing it is a different story, of course.
- simonbw 6y agoI think it's pretty common that when people get married it becomes our money instead of my and your money.
- coolspot 6y agoMaybe in a “partnership” you don’t need to ask a “partner”. But in marriage you don’t have “your money” - you are both on the same team, so all money are shared. If you spend $1000 on something random, that sets your team, your family, back of its common goals - house down payment, vacation, etc.
- konschubert 6y agoAgreed. But as somebody mentioned above: It's good to maintain a (small) personal budget for each partner that they can spend as they please.
- bmsleight_ 6y agoI am in a long marriage,we each have our own money and joint account money. We are both in the same team and can spend our own money. Each person has the same percentage of take-home to spend as an individual. Work for us, may not work for others.
- ALittleLight 6y agoI feel like he could've got it going with 5 or 10 emoji and spent a lot less. Also impressed with his commercial.
- simias 6y agoI thought about that but I think the main advantage of doing it this way is to corner the market somewhat. You get all the "good" ones and make it harder for anybody to clone your idea.
- tener 6y agoI guess software dev can afford to blow 1000$/year on silly side projects. Especially seeing how he got back significant portion of his expenditure. Being single or not has nothing to do with that? It sure seems fair to agree on spending policy with your significant other beforehand, but other than that...
- vz8 6y agoI keep expecting this to tie back to a Borat sequel.
- Grakel 6y agoI'll never understand this, but I see it all the time. People should have shared money, and they should also have their own money. Does my wife like it when I buy myself expensive toys? I have no idea, it's irrelevant unless I stop covering the bills.
- _AzMoo 6y agoWhen your family has limited resources and needs to prioritise it's frustrating when somebody chooses to use those resources on frivolity.
- konschubert 6y agoYou can still have personal budgets, even if they are very small. Heck, when things are tight, even having 10 Euro personal "fun money" a month for each partner can give a bit of freedom.
- satellite2 6y agoFreedom 10EUR
- konschubert 6y agoGP mentioned a situation where money is tight. I’m glad you’ve never been in a place where 10 Euro fun money felt like a bit of a luxury.
- satellite2 6y agoI don't know where you lived but I've been there and 10EUR doesn't make you feel free. It's an amount lower than the volatility of basic life (running out of toilet paper...). You would have to save five months to buy a jeans. 10EUR remaining on your bank account is precisely the amount that makes you feel insecure and poor. Either you live in a very poor country, either you have no idea what you're talking about and are just condescending.
- rileytg 6y agoIt's a time thing also "Sweetie, I don't want to go to your parents for dinner b/c I'm building <insert silly fun project here>"
- ljm 6y agoOn the one hand, I'm single and if I wanted to I could also blow a few grand on emoji domains for an experiment, then I could. On the other, I'd be taking a few grand from my savings for my mortgage deposit. This isn't about relationship status, the author of this post just has money to burn. And even if the author expected to get their money back through paid sales...they're on the hook for those accounts now unless he personally writes it off.
- pgsimp 6y ago1000$ is not a lot of money. Stop making excuses. (edit: he paid 1200$ initially and bought more when he already had some sales). So 1200$ was enough, or even less, as he could have done the same project with 50 domains instead of 150). If you don't have spare 1000$, you should work towards having them.
- ljm 6y ago> 1000$ is not a lot of money For a lot of people in the world, it's a tremendous amount of money. Congrats on being someone without that concern. > Stop making excuses. Take that up with the person you've imagined you're talking to.
- blockyhead 6y agoWe are talking about people with internet access, not some rural farmers in the third world. Nobody says those rural farmers should embark on an emoji project.
- Breza 6y agoHere in the United States, there's well-publicized research into how hard many families would have to work to come up with the money to cover an unexpected $400 expense. https://www.federalreserve.gov/publications/2019-economic-well-being-of-us-households-in-2018-dealing-with-unexpected-expenses.htm https://www.federalreserve.gov/publications/2019-economic-we...
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- swader999 6y agoIt was kinda like that in 2013 when I suggested btc mining to my wife to cover the costs of the electric heat in our new house. And here we still are...
- spullara 6y agoI once registered 60 domains just to reproduce bitsquatting.
- x86ARMsRace 6y agoPersonally, if my partner dropped £1000 on something goofy like this, and all bills were paid, I'd probably cheer them on. There's nothing wrong with spending money on something that's got no purpose other than making people smile/laugh/what have you.
- jacurtis 6y agoI genuinely wish more people saw life this way. I hear so many people mull over money in finance forums, constantly saving every penny that is possible. If you go to finance forums of reddit or Dave Ramsey cult stuff you will even hear people brag about how they have more than a whole retirement's worth saved up yet continue to save and penny pinch. Why? It is ok to buy something because it makes you happy. Not everything needs a complicated pro/con list, a 30 day waiting period, and signed off approval from your partner. It is one thing if you can't pay your bills. You should definitely pay those first. And of course put money towards savings and retirement each month. But don't stock all of your money away. You could die before using any of it. I enjoy cycling. Road cycling and mountain biking. Anyone else who is in the sport knows that it gets expensive. Decent full suspension mountain bikes don't even start until about $3,000 nowadays. Mid-tier mountain bikes are priced around $5,000 - 6,000. A lot of people ask why I would spend that kind of money on a bike. "I could buy an old car for that" they often say. Great, then you go buy an old Honda civic, I don't really care that I "could" do that. I don't want an old car, I already have a good car. I want a nice mountain bike. I ride it 3-4 times a week and it makes me happy. Happier than watching Netflix, happier than playing a video game, happier than hiking. It makes me happy and if I can afford it, then I should reward myself. That is what life is all about. If you enjoy cooking, go buy yourself some expensive ingredients to spoil yourself. If you love movies, treat yourself to some movies at the theaters. Money management is like healthy eating. Eating too much is very bad for you, just like spending too much. But you can also over-correct with spending. Spending too little is just like eating too little, you can sometimes hurt yourself going the other way. I know people who take the financial FIRE principle too far. They stress about money that I know they can afford. They stress about going out to dinner one night a month because they only have $50 a month in their budget for eating out and now they are going to spend $70 this month. Why? Enjoy the fucking meal. Life is far too short. It's ok to spend money just for the enjoyment that it buys you. Your mental health will thank you.
- reaperducer 6y agocan't quite imagine sidling up to significant other with the gambit "Darling, would you mind terribly if I spent £1000 on Kazakhstani emoji domains?" There's a PSA running on Australian radio these days that says if your spouse doesn't let you control your own money, that's a form of abuse. There's even a hotline to report that you're being abused. (Heard it on 2GB/Sydney last week.)
- mlang23 6y agoThe day I have to ask my significant other how to spend money I earn is the day I will quit that relationship. I get that some couples throw everything on a pile and go a pseudo-democratic way of spending things, but I have never understood this meme of males telling all the world that they have to ask their wives for permission to spend money. We're in the 21st century now. She is supposed to not be dependant on him, and the same should apply in reverse.
- philihp 6y agoFind yourself a partner who will share in your enthusiasm. From the looks of the author’s website, he very carefully time boxes his projects and weighs the expense and revenue generation. This is very different from spending a grand on something with unbounded time costs and no tangible return, like buying a boat.
- EvilEy3 6y agoDo you also ask your wife when you have to use a toilet?
- saagarjha 6y agoDoes it cost $1000?