Comment on Another WSJ banger about why the poors aren't doing more
Scubus@sh.itjust.works 5 months agoYour parents had one dollar, you have three. Much rich. Nevermind the fact that your parents one dollar was the down payment on a car and you cant afford a bowl of lettuce.
I remember reading this in an Uncle Scrooge comic when I was a kid. For context, Uncle Scrooge was explaining how money works to his nephews. The gist was “it’s not how much money, but how much it will buy that counts”.
I learned that lesson from a Scottish cartoon duck.
How many hours did I have to work for this?
I unironically use that as one of the measures I use for assessing whether something I could do is worth the effort or not. Want to try a video game? How much of my life did I have to sell to afford what it will cost? Things like that. It’s not the only consideration, of course, but it definitely is one.
waspentalive@lemmy.world 5 months ago
They had $1.00, but the bread was 50 cents. The 30-somethings have $3.00, but bread is now $5.00, just saying how many slips of green paper a has compared to b is useless when those slips buy less and less.
bitjunkie@lemmy.world 5 months ago
The misdirection is entirely deliberate.
explodicle@sh.itjust.works 5 months ago
Guys, guys, you’re forgetting how much cheaper TVs have gotten! /s