"A few thousand dollars" is an absolute shitload of money to most people who aren't riding the computer programming bubble, and especially young people. It may

"A few thousand dollars" is an absolute shitload of money to most people who aren't riding the computer programming bubble, and especially young people. It may as well be $50,000 for how hard it would be for them to come up with without taking out a loan, the same way I'm not any more likely to be able to jump 20 feet in the air than I am to be able to jump to the moon. I haven't had to count pennies at the gas pump rather than just filling it up all the way every time, or keep a running tally of what's going into my grocery cart, in many years, but I remember what it was like. $1,000 was a fuckton of money at the time. An unexpected bill for a couple hundred dollars might ruin my whole month, and maybe the next one too.