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Post by larnmar »

shantly wrote: post #72
larnmar wrote: post #71

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> One of the many ways it's expensive to be poor. On the other hand, consider — poor people don’t have to worry about having a car that keeps up with the Joneses, so they can drive around in a beater. If I had a dirty 1999 Camry then my rich neighbours would look askance at me. If you think it’s expensive to be poor, try being rich.

> poor people don’t have to worry about having a car that keeps up with the Joneses Neither do the old-money (or socialized to behave the same) rich. That's the behavior of someone who's worried about being mistaken for poor.

If you’re middle class with a shitty car, everyone thinks you’re poor. If you’re rich with a shitty car, everyone just thinks you’re painfully eccentric.

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Post by bigred100 »

leggomylibro wrote: post #20
birdyrooster wrote: post #2

"And humans enjoy feeling busy and productive." I have never enjoyed feeling busy.

How about feeling idle with nothing to do but consider your own mortality? Not many people enjoy that, and Pascal wrote an interesting paper about it: http://stmaryvalleybloom.org/pascal-diversion.html Personally, my main takeaway can be summarized by this passage: >And those who philosophise on the matter, and who think men unreasonable for spending a whole day in chasing a hare which they would not have bought, sca…

Some folks in fact think you should do that quite a bit. For example, this guy wrote quite a well-regarded (in his community) book about it:

http://www.documentacatholicaomnia.eu/03d/1696-1787,_De_Ligo...

Re: Busyness leads to bad decisions

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Post by jrs235 »

mnm1 wrote: post #66
ryandrake wrote: post #61

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You’re exactly right. There are two economic classes that are meaningfully different: Class A is N missed paychecks away from $0. N might be a small number for people who live paycheck to paycheck. It might be large for high earning professionals, and it might be “greater than my life expectancy” for retirees, but the common thread is if they stop working, their money goes down every day and will one day reach zero.…

Well put, but I'd argue it's the Class B people who invented all the sub-classes for Class A. Class A just passively accepts those divisions thinking that it is of their own ideas and doing--it's not. This is a very important distinction. It's through these divisions that Class A controls Class B. These divisions are not just of social class but also of race, ethnicity, nationality, etc. Basically all the hate points…

>It's through these divisions that Class A controls Class B.

Um, did you accidentally mix those two up? I think you meant Class B controls Class A. No?

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Post by mnm1 »

jrs235 wrote: post #83
mnm1 wrote: post #66

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Well put, but I'd argue it's the Class B people who invented all the sub-classes for Class A. Class A just passively accepts those divisions thinking that it is of their own ideas and doing--it's not. This is a very important distinction. It's through these divisions that Class A controls Class B. These divisions are not just of social class but also of race, ethnicity, nationality, etc. Basically all the hate points…

>It's through these divisions that Class A controls Class B. Um, did you accidentally mix those two up? I think you meant Class B controls Class A. No?

Ah yes, in one sentence there I did. B, the rich, control A, everyone else.

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Post by afarrell »

riantogo wrote: post #75
afarrell wrote: post #24

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> assessing if they were actually important to begin with. I've found answering "Is this important?" very hard. I find it much easier to answer "What is the impact if I do this?"

“What is the impact if I don’t do this?”, is a stricter filter.

My first draft of my comment had this. It is true, but can make it hard to rank positive opportunities and only focus on preventing risks.

I think you want to ask both questions.

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Post by twoquestions »

twoquestions wrote: post #74
throwaway07Ju19 wrote: post #68

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Does anyone know if there is existing terminology for Class A/B ? Investor class / working class ? Or maybe capital class / labor class. The typically discussed classes in the US are lower, middle, upper which I always took to be one std below the mean income (lower) and one std above mean income (upper). Perhaps if we used mean days until $0 dollars in the bank if you stopped working it would be more useful.

They're generally referred to Bourgeoisie (for Class A) and Proletariat (for Class B). I can understand the hesitation in using those terms directly, as they're quite politically charged.

Crap I got this backwards, but I'm sure you still get the idea.

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Post by DataWorker »

SketchySeaBeast wrote: post #67
DataWorker wrote: post #62

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You mean young people and old people, working age vs retirees. For the most part, that’s how wealth works. The more years a person works, the closer they are to group b. If young people had the same wealth as older people, that would be horrific!

Most retirees are racing against the clock still - they aren't getting ever richer, and instead crunched the numbers and retired with what they hope is enough to get them to their deaths.

Wealth is a side effect of age. Most millionaires and billionaires are seniors. Despite being in the top percentile in terms of capital, most millionaires they don’t feel financially secure, regardless of their age. I think that insecurity is understandable.

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Post by DarwinMailApp »

TurkishPoptart wrote: post #64
DarwinMailApp wrote: post #23

I could not agree more. For years I was just doing things for the sake of being busy.. crossing tasks off my todo list on a daily basis. I felt so accomplished, however, I was not really getting a lot of useful work done! -------------------------- What did I do? - I started thinking about the tasks I needed to do, assessing if they were actually important to begin with. - I often found that they were not adding valu…

What framework is your site built in? And what did you use to build the application itself? Thanks.

PHP, JS, jQuery, LESS :D
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