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true but i only want one watch to rule them all … i would be loyal to it, i would have no tothers before it. when you put it on, it gives you superwpowers.

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Not sure savings will help at my level. Will eventually go to a nursing home?

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[quote=flyer]I can understand your concerns, scaredy, and have had this discussion with some friends who want to buy some big ticket items (planes, boats, etc.)

My take on spending is–if a person knows they have what they need to comfortably support themselves and their families for the balance of their
lives–spend away. If not, monitoring (especially optional) expenditures might be the smart thing to do.[/quote]

Have enough to support me and my family for the balance of our lives? Gonna be a while…

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[quote=flu]Just outsource the spending decisions to me. I have no issues spending other people’s money.[/quote]

is there a fee involved? I couldnt stomach another fee…

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my wife is like, just buy the damn thing, and I feel like she just asked me to put my hand on a hot stove burner . i told her to please click the BUY button, but she refused to do it, wanted me to do it. i couldnt

CHROMETOPHOBIA. fear of money.

one thing ive been doing the last year that I never used to do is give small amounts of money away. so i always put a dollar or so in a tip jar, or give money to people asking on the street. I never ever used to do that, but i made a decision to automatically do it without thinking. I actually get a small pleasure from doing it each time. strange.

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i read this great book a few years ago, from alain de boutons SCHOOL OF LIFE series, called how to worry lessa bout money

and then to avoid clutter, a lesson i learned from another book, i gave the book away.

and now i cannot remember what the damn book said and i have to buy it again.

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I suppose. worrying about money, money anxiety, is serious, though, at every level.

I’m not sure it’s right to say first world anxiety is somehow comical.

just because things are good doesnt mean anxiety or fear is not real or potentially crippling.

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yeah but. i really wanted that watch. I pictured myself wearing it for years, every day. taking care of it. winding it every morning. admiring it. using it to tell time. im pretty sure I would have gotten 1250 worth of pleasure from it.

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this was by the guy who wrote the seminal classic, ON BULLSHIT

Buy Harry Frankfurt’s On Inequality

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im less concerned with inequality. in equality by itself seems neither bad nor good, since it doesn’t in itself describe the conditions of the lower end.

I am more concerned with the endgame. capitalism, does it necessarily end in the desctruction of our souls, our planet, our society?

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saw last night the movie LE HAVRE, new french release on netflix about a guy named rather obviously Marcel Marx, who meets an African refugee and helps him. was very french and blue colored and maybe communist. i liked it…

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the story isn’t over. maybe we lose…

i wasn’t trolling.

saw a comment on a NY times article…randomly, but it kind of spoke to me…

“I was driving down the street one day and saw workers ripping out perfectly good flowers from a bed in an entrance to an expensive neighborhood. It was fall and it was time to change them to fall flowers, en masse. I guess the dirt is pretty much just there to hold the plants upright and to look more or less natural. There is no soil ecosystem here; the plants will be there for a short time and will be supported with chemical fertilizers, pesticide, and weed-killer.

This is how the world works: exploitation without concern for the larger consequences is the name of the game. If you don’t exploit maximally, you’re considered “lazy” (see: excuses for taking land from the native Americans). Not making as much money as you can, any way you can, no matter what harm is caused, is talked about with the emotional force of preachers inveighing against sin.

How much suffering is wrought by our religion of capitalist exploitation?
Ask the students to consider that. Is there a different way to work? Are there lines you don’t want to cross? This would be a discussion that would benefit not just the individual, but the world…..

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Maybe stocked shelves are the root of the problem…

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Imagine just 60 years ago all the trouble we could’ve gotten into for discussing marx like this here in our free country.

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“The oppressed are allowed once every few years to decide which particular representatives of the oppressing class are to represent and repress them.” Karl marx.

Sounds like a tea party dude.

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