Yeah why would anyone want to enjoy anything during some of their physically hottest and healthiest years?
George Soros and Rupert Murdoch show us the new stable "30s," but it's the 1930s.
The credit card one is ridiculous. First off, they can be a trap and literally designed to hook people.
My partner has a tooon of debt they’ve been paying on for the better part of a decade because they and their sister were forced out of their home right after hs and had no other way to pay rent some times.
Just skip a few billion bar visits/pumpkin spice lattes/avocado toasts/whatever and you'll be as rich as Jeff Bezos!
"The less you eat, drink, buy books, go to the theatre or to balls, or to the pub, and the less you think, love, theorize, sing, paint, fence, etc, the more you will be able to save and the greater will become your treasure which neither moth nor rust will corrupt—your capital. The less you are, the less you express your life, the more you have, the greater is your alienated life and the greater is the saving of your alienated being."
this was a serious thing I thought about as a kid, less eloquently of course. it seemed so fucking perverse.
Relevant Citations Needed episode: Episode 77: Frugality Fables and the Poor-Shaming Grift of Financial Advice Journalism
Love how all these get rich suggestions these days pretty much boils down to "be a parasite".
Hard work and honest living is dead.
Being a parasite is the only way to enjoy a comfortable life in the west. Hard work and honest living is a miserable experience in virtually every societal role.
yes. it died not long after primitive agricultural societies; we developed our tech WAY out of order and implemented it really fucking badly.
"You're poor because you don't have money" is always my favorite, which half of those > are.
Buying a boat because your neighbor has one.
Also never buy a boat.
