No, you don't NEED a $1000+ iPhone, Androids that cost a fifth of that are perfectly capable and will serve 99% of people's needs satisfactorily. So you won't have blue text message bubbles. Get over it.

No, you don't NEED a fucking luxury car. I don't care if you think you "deserved" it or whatever. If you're driving something that expensive, it necessarily affects how others react to you (giving you more berth cause they don't wanna be on the hook for insurance, for instance). Drive a fucking Corolla like the rest of us and enjoy the now-standard AC, power windows, etc. Get over it.

And frankly, and this goes for me as well, you don't NEED to eat meat for every fucking meal, or every day, or honestly almost ever. Yeah burgers are tasty and it's gonna suck giving them up. Get over it.

  • Terkrockerfeller [she/her]
    2·
    4 years ago

    Struggle sesh: Make-a-Wish and other similar charities are bad and need to Don't. Spending thousands of dollars to make a single dying kid happy when it could literally save hundreds of lives in poorer countries is bougie decadence

    ...my brain leveled up in the middle of typing that and came up with some counterarguments for this, but let's see if anyone else deploys em first

      • Terkrockerfeller [she/her]
        2·
        4 years ago

        Lol I wish I could see it that way, but I've not been doing any volunteer work cause it honestly feels pointless and like I'd be doing it more for my own benefit than others (to say nothing of how like, walking some shelter dogs is completely meaningless when people are starving to death on the streets in my own fucking city).

        Also probably helps that I'm lazy too though.

    • thethirdgracchi [he/him, they/them]
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      4 years ago

      Hard agree, and I was one of those dying kids who got a Make-a-Wish. Like sure it was cool but I was 8, I would've been thrilled with a new PS2 game.

      • Terkrockerfeller [she/her]
        ·
        4 years ago

        Yo what, seriously? I mean, glad you didn't die (unless we have fucking 9 year olds on chapo now, which at this point wouldn't even shock me that hard)

        • thethirdgracchi [he/him, they/them]
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          4 years ago

          Yeah, I was a huge NASCAR fan as a kid so I met Jeff Gordon at the Daytona 500 and then he actually won the race, it was pretty awesome. But yes I was a dying kid with cystic fibrosis who, thanks to amazing medical advancements in the last few years and my privileged upbringing allowing me constant access to health insurance, I'm now a mostly not dying adult in their 20s.

          • Terkrockerfeller [she/her]
            ·
            4 years ago

            Damn, that's sick (no pun intended)

            But yeah, doing extravagant expensive things for kids/babies is purely for the benefit of the parents/onlookers, not the kid's. A toddler would be just as fascinated by a shiny set of keys being jangled in its face as that $35,000 kid's Bugatti lol