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I have a fancy car? News to me. I'm just trying to pay my bills and live a sensible and reasonably comfortable life. These days that requires a lot of money.

• hackable_sand 5mo ago
  That's an excuse you made for yourself to feel better.
• Barrin92 5mo ago
  mind you given the topic of the article I took the jobs in question to mean largely in the software industry, not talking about minimum wage workers here. But as a programmer I am quite baffled when peers my age, often without kids struggle in this kind of way. My essentials are rent, food, metro card, library card. When I hear people who make what I make say that living requires a lot of money that usually includes two dozen subscriptions, a few grand in useless electronics per year and ordering food most of the week.
  • jckahn 5mo ago
    So, are you suggesting that an acceptable lifestyle would be an empty studio apartment with nothing inside of it, no pets, no partner, no meaningful possessions? Personally, I have pets, a partner, and thoughtfully selected and meaningful possessions. I don't collect crap, and nothing I own or do is particularly extravagant. But I'm not exactly living an ascetic life either. A pretty typical lifestyle, I'd say. And I don't consider any of this a moral failure, if that's what you're getting at. Though admittedly it's not as affordable as living like a monk.
    • Barrin92 5mo ago
      I don't advocate living like a monk. I play in a band and play football every weekend, play chess, you can go to church, most of that is practically free. I'm very much in favour of participating in culture, real culture though. You can ditch the 1k Taylor Swift tickets, Disneyland visits, and high end gym for the 20 bucks local jazz festival. I think the people who live socially like ascetic monks are ironically the people who build themselves a home gym for 10k and then complain about not having any time for friends because everything is too expensive
      • jckahn 5mo ago
        Well, I'm neither of those extremes. Like most people, I'm somewhere between two ends of a spectrum. ;-)
• DANmode 5mo ago
  Leave the city.
  • jckahn 5mo ago
    I'd rather be poor in the city than rich and bored outside of it.
    • DANmode 5mo ago
      What is sensible in a literal economic recession if not “boring”? Anyway..
      • jckahn 5mo ago
        I'll be in my home for longer than the recession lasts. Seems a little silly to sell it and walk away from my hard-earned lifestyle (which I quite enjoy) to save some money for just a few years.
  • sph 5mo ago
    Sssh, don't give away the secret.