Zaap
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- Jun 12, 2008
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This forum (as a whole) is a real trip. In P&N, one would think we live in Somalia or some place- everything is gloom and doom and 99% of everyone is dirt poor, barely able to survive, with the 1% filthy rich cracking the whip and grinding them into dust beneath their boots.So, the middle class can no longer afford that stuff.
How about a list of all the things they can now afford they there didn't buy a decade or two ago?
Latest and greatest smartphone? Check!
High speed internet subscription? Check!
Computer? Check!
Designer shoes / handbags / clothes? Check!
Eating out regularly? Check!
Larger houses / apartments? Check!
Latest Xbox / Playstation with lots of games? Check!
Should I continue? Or, can we stop this "omg everyone is poor and it is the rich man's fault" garbage? You want to know why people have no retirement and savings? Because, they are bad with money and can't fathom going without a little less entertainment in their miserable lives.
Then the next section over, the same people are celebrating having bought some brand new $1000+ gizmo that serves the basic human need of putting pretty colors all over a higher definition screen than the previous $1000+ gizmo used to after it aged an intolerable number of months.