Don’t forget the healthy dose of salary and humane treatment.

Yeah, the comment was just intended to highlight how bad things are getting here now.

I think you can answer this question yourself. If the roles were reversed how would you answer this question?

Would you forgive her? How? Why?

I’m sorry, did you say China or the US?

He seems to have united the world… regrettably against us.

Also the word “bigly.” I use it all the time.

A $60k car and a $1600 cell phone are NOT essential for life and I didn’t just “nah, it is just that,” the argument. You’re just having reading comprehension problems.

Let’s drop to your level. Are you stupid enough to believe that people don’t buy things they can’t afford? If you only have even $10 to your name and you need food, you go to the most economical grocery store you can get to and maximize your purchases. You don’t walk into Starbucks and order a latte. The OP implied that because there is as larger economic problem at hand, money management isn’t an issue. They are ALWAYS both an issue.

And yes I understand that the problem is that people have to manage $10 now instead of $1000. It was not my intention to minimalize that.

Ok. Troll go ahead and keep believing what you want. You will always be right.

OMG, would people get off the friggin cell phone thing already. People buy all kinds of things they can’t afford. Money management would help with that. That was my only point. But if we HAVE to talk cell phones then fine. High end phones are over $1k. I just bought one for $200. To a person with little money, yeah cell phones too.

That’s truly terrible but I don’t know what that has to do with money management, which is the only point I’m trying to make. I agree on the rest of all of this.

I think you’re right. The problem is that salaries are not keeping up. It’s been a chronic problem.

It’s not stupid, you’ve just stupidly misinterpreted it.

I believe you’ve mistakenly interpreted it to mean that I disagree with the premise that people have been priced out of the things we’ve come to believe are the standard of living now. That’s not what I was objecting to.

My point is that money should ALWAYS be managed. If you have no money, then, well I guess it manages itself. But if you have very little money, you shouldn’t be buying s $60k car you can’t afford. You buy a $3k car you can. Saying, I can’t afford a house so I’m going to go into massive amounts of debt to buy a car to make up for it, is the REASON you need to manage money.

You can’t get there buying cars and phones you can’t afford either.

No. My Corolla is from 1988.

Probably when Tasha asks Data if he’s fully functional.

Yes definitely.

Fortunately my grand children remain unborn.

Yeah, what he said. Not a great movie? Are you nuts. I just can’t…

Almost worth it. I spent 20 hours getting home (Florida) from Canada, 36 hours getting home from Tennessee and 15 hours getting home from Colorado. I’m finding more and more that the airlines have little value-add and that doesn’t even include the nightmare that is the TSA .

Pleeeeeeaaasse. It’s just one tiny little private jet and maybe one little tiny pilot to fly me. I hate traveling by air so much. What could be less minor? I think you should reconsider.

Private jet?