On Jul 26, 2009, at 1:45 AM, Jeff Wright wrote:
What you call poverty, normal people call frugality and thrift.
Those are
positive values, in case you were wondering.
Some people can't tell the difference and apparently you are one.
For example, such people think that getting a pay-day loan is a great
way to buy what they want. They get instant gratification and the
future does not enter into their calculation. After all money is
money and money now is of course better than the pain of saving for
things.
Crummy PC hardware, like M$ promotes through its advertising (Laptop
Hunters, etc.) is just like pay-day loans. You pay every day through
reduced productivity and you pay when its end-of-life comes much
sooner than it would with good hardware.
You call it frugal, I call it profligate.
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