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Does the fact that you now can afford $10/month matter at all?

by Veuxdo 5y ago

cbozeman 5y ago
Even as a kid, if you can't afford $10 a month, you're doing something wrong. I remember a young boy, around age 10, who would go around the neighborhood offering to take people's trash to the road on Sunday for disposal on Monday mornings. All he asked was that you open your garage door by 6 p.m. so he could come around and pull your bins to the curb. He charged $5 a month. Some of you may be thinking, "Wow, you're so lazy you can't even take your own trash to the road?" Well I could... but for less per day than I spend on Diet Coke, I can get it done for me every month without having to worry about it and all I had to do was program my garage door to open at 6 p.m. on Sunday and close at 9 p.m. About half the people in our neighborhood took up this lad on his offer, so he had to have been making around $200 a month or so. Not too shabby for a 10 year old boy. It's not difficult to make money. You just offer a service doing things most people don't want to do.
- tester756 5y ago
  >Even as a kid, if you can't afford $10 a month, you're doing something wrong. As a kid I didn't pay for stuff mostly because it didn't have a payment method that I'd be able to use I used premium SMS (which were something like 3 times more expensive than direct transfer) and later I used paysafe cards that you could purchase in local shops or I started using "forms" and sending them via post office or bank branches IIRC
- antifa 5y ago
  I think you're overestimating how many people grew up in a neighborhood where that story was reproducible.
  - jimmygrapes 5y ago
    It's still a normal thing in high trust societies/neighborhoods. Might be worth figuring out how more trust can be developed if that's not a normal thing.
    - antifa 5y ago
      Mowing grass is a normal thing. That story sounds like it would only happen once outside of an 80s movie.
- deadbeeves 5y ago
  Not everyone thinks trading their labor for the ability to engage in commerce is their primary function in life.
- Beaver117 5y ago
  Or, hear me out, you could just pirate and not waste your time. Why should we encourage kids to work?

Does the fact that you now can afford $10/month matter at all?

by Veuxdo 5y ago

Does the fact that you now can afford $10/month matter at all?

Even as a kid, if you can't afford $10 a month, you're doing something wrong. I remember a young boy, around age 10, who would go around the neighborhood offering to take people's trash to the road on Sunday for disposal on Monday mornings. All he asked was that you open your garage door by 6 p.m. so he could come around and pull your bins to the curb. He charged $5 a month. Some of you may be thinking, "Wow, you're so lazy you can't even take your own trash to the road?" Well I could... but for less per day than I spend on Diet Coke, I can get it done for me every month without having to worry about it and all I had to do was program my garage door to open at 6 p.m. on Sunday and close at 9 p.m. About half the people in our neighborhood took up this lad on his offer, so he had to have been making around $200 a month or so. Not too shabby for a 10 year old boy. It's not difficult to make money. You just offer a service doing things most people don't want to do.

tester756 5y ago
>Even as a kid, if you can't afford $10 a month, you're doing something wrong. As a kid I didn't pay for stuff mostly because it didn't have a payment method that I'd be able to use I used premium SMS (which were something like 3 times more expensive than direct transfer) and later I used paysafe cards that you could purchase in local shops or I started using "forms" and sending them via post office or bank branches IIRC
antifa 5y ago
I think you're overestimating how many people grew up in a neighborhood where that story was reproducible.
- jimmygrapes 5y ago
  It's still a normal thing in high trust societies/neighborhoods. Might be worth figuring out how more trust can be developed if that's not a normal thing.
  - antifa 5y ago
    Mowing grass is a normal thing. That story sounds like it would only happen once outside of an 80s movie.
deadbeeves 5y ago
Not everyone thinks trading their labor for the ability to engage in commerce is their primary function in life.
Beaver117 5y ago
Or, hear me out, you could just pirate and not waste your time. Why should we encourage kids to work?