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I think this is exactly right. There's almost always somewhere you can cut - when I was a student I lived on $11k per year in today's dollars. $2000/month see
by tsotha 13y ago
I think this is exactly right. There's almost always somewhere you can cut - when I was a student I lived on $11k per year in today's dollars. $2000/month seems kind of luxurious.
And I didn't suffer any of the wrenching decision making overhead in the article. Decisions were easy - "Is there any way I can avoid buying this?" No? Then I bought it.
- nickthemagicman 13y agoCollege students are like the Kevin Federline's of poverty. They believe that because they lived frugally for a few years while seizing opportunities that a middle class existence opened for them they are now able to speak expertly on poverty and what being on the street is like. And Kevin Federline made it up out of the streets with his dangerous thug dance moves.
- tsotha 13y ago>They believe that because they lived frugally for a few years while seizing opportunities that a middle class existence opened for them they are now able to speak expertly on poverty and what being on the street is like. Based on this and your earlier comment I have serious doubts as to whether you've actually met someone who makes less than about $60k a year. You do ape your Contemporary Marxism professor passingly well, though.
- nickthemagicman 13y agoOne of your previous comments: "$80k is hardly the low end of the car market. I can buy a decent Porsche for less." You're a poverty expert obviously. With nothing but warmth, mercy, and compassion towards those less fortunate than you. Fox news and Rush Limbaugh will guide your moral compass.
- tsotha 13y ago>One of your previous comments... Proving nothing. How do you know whether or not I can afford a Porsche? The ghettos are full of kids who know how much a high-end Lamborghini costs. As it happens, I could afford to buy a Porsche if that was the sort of thing I wanted. Because in the decades since college I lived within my means and strove to make my skills more attractive to people who might want to hire me. One thing I didn't do was fetishize poverty. All you have to do to be poor is refrain from doing anything. In the US nobody of average intelligence needs to be poor. >Fox news and Rush Limbaugh will guide your moral compass. I don't watch broadcast television or listen to commercial radio, so I'm not exactly sure what's on Fox or what Limbaugh is saying. But to the extent they support things like self-discipline, thrift, and hard work (you can find definitions for those words with Google) I agree with them.
- nickthemagicman 13y agoLol having mercy and compassion = fetishizing poverty? You sir are amazing.
- tsotha 13y agoThat's not compassion. That's stroking your own ego.
- nickthemagicman 13y agoYou're a sick person.
- tsotha 13y agoFor pointing out the utter vapid shallowness of your "compassion"? Guilty as charged, I suppose.