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The gist of this article seems to be "Having gained nothing, we have nothing to lose."

• streety 18y ago
  'Tis better to have loved and lost than never to have loved at all. I wonder what he thinks of Tennyson.
  • inglorian 18y ago
    I think it's a bit of a stretch to say that you "love" your big house, expensive car, and extravagant purchases in the way Tennyson meant "love" in that quote
    • streety 18y ago
      A massive stretch. My intention wasn't to suggest that I/you/we/them 'loved' our houses/cars/jobs but that you could substitute loved for your activity/goal of choice and the idea still holds true.
• Xichekolas 18y ago
  It started out promising anyway. I was expecting a great piece on how living within your means and not trying to have everything all at once right out of college... but then he basically turned it into what you say: "neener neener neener I don't have a house to lose because I still live with my pizza delivery buddies!" There is nothing wrong with prudent management of your money and the accumulation of wealth... the advantage that people that live within their means have right now is that they don't have cash-flow issues. Their lives don't depend on predictable steady cash-flow to the same extent as that prototypical American with the $22k in credit card debt. The fact that most slackers tend to live within their means does not imply that most people that live within their means are slackers.