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> "Many people who live payday to payday will be the types of people who if they had there pay doubled would adjust into the same payday to payday model." This
by potatolicious 14y ago
> "Many people who live payday to payday will be the types of people who if they had there pay doubled would adjust into the same payday to payday model."
This is an audacious enough claim that citation is needed. It also smells a little like fundamental attribution error (i.e., assigning behavior because is is the nature of the individual, rather than situational).
- grecy 14y ago> "In general these will be young people who are out to enjoy life" I feel the same way about the above statement. My gut says there are tens of millions of middle age families living hand to mouth, struggling.
- smegel 14y agoStruggling with iPads
- sliverstorm 14y agoI keep trying to deny this, but I keep seeing it before my own eyes. It's hard to take people seriously when they tell me about how hard up they are financially, when I know they have iPads and iPhones, and so on and so forth. Anecdotes are not data, of course, but I am gradually becoming more and more convinced.
- mfringel 14y agoAll you can tell by someone owning a consumer device is that ''at some point'', they had the money to pay for it. They may not have the money anymore, and it may not make sense to sell all of their high-depreciation items at large losses when they can have the satisfaction of continuing to use the device.
- thwarted 14y agoExcept you can buy most, if not all, consumer devices on credit, and they may still be paying for them. They may never have had the money "at some point".
- vacri 14y agoiPads aren't that ubiquitous.
- tptacek 14y agoYou mean to tell me that people struggling to live hand to mouth are also making mistakes? Ridiculous.
- bluedino 14y agoI think most everyone knows people who have exhibited that behavior.
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