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- Comment on What is one song that you would be okay with listening forever? 11 hours ago:
I would say passion play but that rabbit story is going to get real old. real fast. so thick as a brick.
- Comment on Millionaire Mark Tilbury Suggests Poor People Try Being Poorer for a While 2 days ago:
illionaire financial influencer Mark Tilbury has offered a brilliant new strategy for accumulating wealth: Buy Grand Theft Auto 6, stay inside and stop wasting money on the increasingly extravagant luxury of having a fucking life.
Tilbury recently calculated that playing the game instead of going out could save consumers $5,000. His arithmetic assumes people are regularly spending $100 on evenings out, suggesting his closest encounter with working-class financial hardship was accidentally tipping a valet less than $20.
The revelation represents a major breakthrough in millionaire economics, a field dedicated to finding increasingly elaborate ways to avoid acknowledging why anyone is poor.
For decades, wealthy financial gurus have advised workers to stop buying coffee, cancel streaming subscriptions and prepare meals at home. Tilbury has finally taken the philosophy to its logical conclusion: Stop going outside altogether.
It’s difficult to overstate the genius involved. Rather than demanding higher wages, affordable housing or an economy where full-time employment actually covers the cost of existence, the poor can simply retreat into their apartments and simulate the freedom they can no longer afford in real life.
Why buy a car when you can steal one in Los Santos? Why visit the beach when your television has one? Why spend $40 having dinner with friends when you can sit alone in the dark accumulating imaginary wealth while your actual landlord accumulates yours?
And if you’re still struggling, have you checked between the couch cushions? That’s where Tilbury and several other millionaires apparently found their first million.
This is the particular obscenity of rich people giving financial advice. They describe poverty as a series of irresponsible purchases rather than an economic condition. Every dollar a worker spends enjoying themselves becomes evidence of personal failure. Every dollar a billionaire extracts from that worker becomes evidence of superior intelligence.
A person earning $35,000 a year must account for every sandwich, every movie ticket and every unnecessary journey outside the home. A man worth millions can tell that person to buy a video game and call himself a financial educator. Tilbury isn’t offering a path out of poverty. He’s offering instructions for making poverty less visible.
Stay home. Don’t travel. Don’t socialize. Don’t occupy the restaurants, beaches and entertainment districts that wealthy people would prefer to enjoy without you. Keep working, keep paying rent and kindly stop expecting civilization to include you.
And when you’ve finally saved that $5,000, congratulations. Your landlord has raised the rent, your groceries cost more, and the millionaire who told you to stay home has earned another advertising check explaining how you can save $10,000 by not eating.
- Comment on What’s your favourite Elder Scrolls game, and why? 1 week ago:
in some ways the first one. you could get a magic sword and constantly fill your mana bar and be levitating with a force shield and blasting about like magneto.
- Comment on THE FIRST-PAST-THE-POST/PLURALITY ELECTION SYSTEM IS NEITHER HELPFUL, FUNNY, NOR COOL 1 week ago:
I have yet to see someone say they love first past the post or extole its virtues.
- Comment on Best Chekov Episodes? 1 week ago:
whats scary was he was the young guy. the ensign. several episodes he is infatuated with girls. like the ok corral one.
- Comment on Pisses me off that the 'people' who bought and moved into my neighbours house is to easily dispatch tow trucks .. not to actually live in 1 week ago:
I don’t think they generally should with based unecryted but their own systems they would be able to keep everything encrypted and on their own network. that is part of the reason.
- Comment on Pisses me off that the 'people' who bought and moved into my neighbours house is to easily dispatch tow trucks .. not to actually live in 1 week ago:
there is a program to get a limited phone (in the us). I have said for awhile that we should have gov email addresses that official gov communications should come through but could also use generally (people get bent out of shape but its not like im saying you have to use it outside of gov stuff. they act like im suggesting they can’t use whats already available). And we obviously have failed to house everyone so we should at least allow people to get free post office boxes.
- Comment on Pisses me off that the 'people' who bought and moved into my neighbours house is to easily dispatch tow trucks .. not to actually live in 1 week ago:
its already to expensive for regular folks to buy. The problem is there is not enough money in regular folks hands.
- Comment on Pisses me off that the 'people' who bought and moved into my neighbours house is to easily dispatch tow trucks .. not to actually live in 1 week ago:
why is it idling???
- Comment on Original (by Hata4564) 2 weeks ago:
you know the face thing. the little brown triangles. Im thinking it might be an anime thing that suggests something I just don’t get. It was those that made me thing it was from something.
- Comment on Original (by Hata4564) 2 weeks ago:
I hate to say it but I am not sure who this is. I feel the facial marks means someone from a particular anime but my mind just is not bringing forth who it is.
- Comment on How long do you keep your backups? 2 weeks ago:
look im not that committed to a different scheme. Just seems to me once you get to a week and do a weekly you are good on days. heck I would do 6 daily ones and have the weekly one just be the 7th day of the week. free up yet another deep backup.
- Comment on How long do you keep your backups? 2 weeks ago:
because your last weekly would be a max of 7 days out
- Comment on How long do you keep your backups? 2 weeks ago:
came to say something like this but not sure why you would do daily for 10 days. Your doing weeklys so why not 7. I would rather increase the monthly to 7 or do 6 bi monthly and keep a yearly.
- Comment on ISP won't set up static IP - Services keep going down 2 weeks ago:
Man. At least one isp in my area gives you the business plan if you just ask for it. I mean you need to give a business name but you can make it anything you like.
- Comment on Bitwarden Switches to Commercial License 3 weeks ago:
bitwarden was my first but I chose it as better than 1password and its ilk mainly because of the gpl.
- Comment on Bitwarden Switches to Commercial License 3 weeks ago:
darn and it was out of site. out of mind. got to move my ass on this.
- Comment on Can the fascist horrors just be over already? 3 weeks ago:
its funny but I feel a lot of folks don’t really feel time. They don’t seem to see how it drags on but it also incredibly short. we live for decades and out species have barely gotten here and destroyed so many species.
- Comment on Rainwater collection and reuse - IBC totes and irrigation pumps 4 weeks ago:
so its like a bag? like does it inflate with water and then deflate as you use it or is it rigid?
- Comment on Why are official subs so awful, they can't even be bothered to translate character names? (Chainsmoker Cat)) 5 weeks ago:
I watch dub with caption and often times the caption phrases things in a better way to me.
- Comment on What are your ideas for public holidays that can be celebrated by everybody? 5 weeks ago:
I had this think where I would like to see a 5 week of 6 days for all the months and then have 5 holidays that are outside of it and 4 of those would be the solstices and equinox and then the fifth would be the day after the winter solstice and be called new years.
- Comment on It’s mildly infuriating that I cannot cross-post to !mildlyinfurating@thelemmy.club 1 month ago:
im not sure about others but piefed you can’t choose additional communities to post in on initial posting which I would like to do sometimes.
- Comment on US Federal Reserve raises interest rates for the first time since 2023 1 month ago:
its funny how republicans always talk about raising taxes depress the economy yet when we have high interest rates they fight raising taxes on the rich.
- Comment on People who think you don't care about an issue if you don't make a post about it 1 month ago:
how the heck would anyone know what someone was posting on facebook???
- Comment on Solid-state battery hits 381 Wh/kg as Taiwan mass production begins 1 month ago:
scams or definition issues. There was a bunch of stuff of what made it solid state percentage wise and if only one part needed to be it. Granted I do think it should not have liquid components if its going to be called solid state.
- Comment on [Discussion] What is your favorite ecchi anime? 1 month ago:
yeah then im thinking ecchi for me practically means anime because like it was the large majority of what I saw back when I had to go to conventions and anime clubs to see stuff and even now feels about half of it.
- Comment on [Discussion] What is your favorite ecchi anime? 1 month ago:
thanks. yeah im an atrocious speller even in english. so can something be ecchi if there is no nudity? LIke I think a lot of harem type stuff is very sexually suggestive but sorta remains clean a lot of times. Im trying to recall if high school double D’s even had any.
- Comment on [Discussion] What is your favorite ecchi anime? 1 month ago:
I mean. thats like all anime practically to me.
- Comment on [Discussion] What is your favorite ecchi anime? 1 month ago:
im an anime fan but don’t do well at keeping up with the lingo so im not sure what ecchi is. I only recently learned what izakie means.
- Comment on If you are a software/hardware developer and you think it is ok to make things more and more complicated. YOU are what is wrong in this world. 1 month ago:
pretty much they no longer wanted to make tech for people to use themselves instead they did not want to compete with their cloud services.