Random fashion thoughts - Part II (A New Hope)

[John L]

^ it's more endemic than that:
http://www.pbs.org/newshour/making-...-americans-have-absolutely-no-savings-at-all/

I'm unique among my friends in that I have a few k stashed away in a crummy money market but realistically that wouldn't take me that far in event of disaster.


I got zip boots though. So that counts for something.

Everyone is talking about my zip boots, I got my zip boots, I got my zip boots on

Everyone is looking at my zip boots (ad naus)

 

[Mulan]

What loser spends $12/day on pressed juice? Just buy your self a $400 juicer that only works with the brand's prepackaged options that cost about half that amount!

Yes this is real.

 

[g transistor]



:foo:

https://www.theguardian.com/technol...crisis-has-americas-highest-paid-feeling-poor

It's a good article. I'm still gonna be myopic and say **** these people though.

"“We make over $1m between us, but we can’t afford a house,” said a woman in her 50s who works in digital marketing for a major telecoms corporation, while her partner works as an engineer at a digital media company. “This is part of where the American dream is not working out here.”"

Move the **** elsewhere. Don't even start that American dream bullshit with me.

"Michelle, a 28-year-old tech worker who earns a six-figure salary at a data science startup said her only chance of buying a home would be if she combined income with a partner. “For all the feminist movement of ‘you can do it all’, the concept of home ownership is really truly out of reach,” she said. “For me that’s disheartening.”

Move the **** elsewhere.

Another tech worker feeling excluded from the real estate market was 41-year-old Michael, who works at a networking firm in Silicon Valley and last year earned $700,000. Sick of his 22-mile commute to work, which can sometimes take up to two and half hours, he explored buying a property nearer work.

“We went to an open house in Los Gatos that would shorten my commute by eight miles. It was 1,700 sq ft and listed at $1.4m. It sold in 24 hours for $1.7m,” he said.

Move the **** elsewhere. Oh wait, he did.

Although he said his salary means he can afford to live a decent life, he finds the cost of living, combined with the terrible commute, unpalatable. He’s had enough, and has accepted a 50% pay cut to relocate to San Diego.

"I've had enough! I'll starve if I have to!" one person of the household makes $350k? Tragic.

“You are caught in this really uncomfortable position. You feel very guilty seeing such poverty and helplessness,” added Michelle, the 28-year-old on a six-figure wage. “But what are you supposed to do? Not make a lot of money? Not advocate for yourself and then not afford to live here?”

Move the **** elsewhere. You people created this problem yourselves.

The ultimate issue with this is that all of these people have the money, resumes, and equally important, the social capital to move elsewhere and get a STILL high paying job. Tech jobs are everywhere. Poor people have been doing it for a godamn eternity without any of that ****.

**** these people.

 

[nahneun]

hey **** you too, stylefarmer! i need to keep up with the jones and live my unsustainable power lifestyle!

 

[g transistor]

I'm just ******* salty because I haven't found a cougar yet to take me on all the shopping sprees that I want to go on

 

[bows1]

 

[KaleidoscopicK]

Who the **** pays $8 for a bagel?

 

[g transistor]

I think good food is always worth money. I'd pay $8 a bagel for myself and another $8 for a friend if it meant we got to have a nice memory and maybe like a *******.

 

[nahneun]

heyitsmeurfriendwholikesbagelsandquickies

 

[cyc wid it]

Ahhh Los Gatos

 

[ghdvfddzgzdzg]



@ClambakeSkate
I like the Muji wheeled stuff for check-in but carry-on I use Filson, does the job.

Briefcase under the seat, and duffle overhead. The medium duffel is made to meet maximum carry-on size.

I've been using a Filson Pullman bag as my carry on, technically above the limit but no one complains

 

[dieworkwear]



Move the **** elsewhere.

"Move the **** somewhere else" isn't that easy of an option if youre in certain industries. Academia, programming, research, etc. Which is a large part of what's here.

Really, a lot of this could be eased if the city was willing to build upwards. Basically just create sky scrapers like any cramped, small city in the world. But nobody wants sky scrapers in their backyard.

 

[KaleidoscopicK]

I think good food is always worth money. I'd pay $8 a bagel for myself and another $8 for a friend if it meant we got to have a nice memory and maybe like a *******.

I agree. I've had my fair share of pricier - and straight up pricey - meals, whether on my own or with company. I remember going to a local restaurant famous for its tasting menu when I heard it was going to shut down and rebrand itself under a new name and concept. It costed over $200, but I'll remember the experience for a while yet! I also didn't eat out for the rest of the month, and this took place during the first third of December.

I won't do this on my own anymore now that I went back to school and make less money than before, but by cutting back on alone meals I can justify spending $20 or so at a friend's birthday dinner. And of course, worth is relative. Most of us buy expensive clothing and footwear, after all.

But $8 for a bagel?...

 

[Gruff]



:foo:

https://www.theguardian.com/technol...crisis-has-americas-highest-paid-feeling-poor

Lol the people who drove up the cost of living in the bay area in the first place now complaining about the cost of living in the bay area. ******* beautiful irony.

 

[double00]

yeah but those same folks are singlehandedly supporting all the artisanal chow wagons.

which of course makes work for artisanal chow wagon painters.

world goes round.