Leon Trotsky 2012 posted:

If she lives to be 80, then she got that 8k in exchange for 270k over 18 years.

Leon Trotsky 2012 posted:

I kind of want to have a conversation with a Youtube or Twitch star in the 20's or 30's and ask them what they assume their career trajectory is going to look like over the next 30 years.

Are they just gambling that Call of Duty will persist for 30 years?

GamingHyena posted:

Call of Duty: Black Ops 9 - Northwest Indian War

GamingHyena posted:

Brothers of Heroes brings a fresh take on the Modern Warfare franchise by introducing Ted MacTavish, Soap's younger underachieving brother. Marvel at the cutting edge graphics as you battle your way through a terse and uncomfortable Thanksgiving dinner in the MacTavish household. Players can truly affect their world by choosing responses to events such as "are you ever going to marry that nice girl, what was her name, Karen?" and "your brother is off protecting our country, and you still work at Best Buy. When are you going to get off your rear end and DO something with your life, son?"

Citing recent events, some players have objected to the level, "no American" taking place in a busy airport when an overbooked flight requires you choose between taking an airline voucher or risk being involuntarily denied boarding. This level is now optional.

Tiny Brontosaurus posted:

Ethnic markets can be good for produce deals too. Frustratingly, farmer's markets aren't, at least inside a city. I go every week and every week I'm surprised anew that the produce costs 4x what it does in the store across the street.

DarkHorse posted:

It reminds me of one of the ways I make a billion dollars relatable to people. Imagine one of the most expensive cars you can own, a new Lamborghini at around $400,000, which is as much as people's mortgages if not several times that.

You drive it for a week. At the end of the week, you push it off a cliff.

You could do it again the next week, and the next.

You could do it every week for forty eight years and still have enough for four more cars.

It's an insane amount of money. Like the guy that lost multiple briefcases of money and rolled his tricked-out van, to lose that much in a lifetime you'd have to have "spent the rest of it foolishly."

(Yes yes taxes and interest and inflation and yadda yadda it's an illustration ok)

Hot Dog Day #91 posted:

Yeah it's not wedding horse chat, so I think it's acceptable anyway.

Wait, debating the rules is a derail...I've become what I've always hated. BIRD ME!

Zo posted:

traveling to Europe every year, buying BMWs - "a small leak in budget"

you heard it here folks!

Zo posted:

true, but then they would be able to (barely) buy a house in Sydney with that kind of budget!

Devian666 posted:

Canada and Australia is BWM. Gotta keep borrowing money to keep up with a Jones. New Zealand has been left out, things are looking shaky here and not because of the earthquakes.


http://www.nzherald.co.nz/business/news/article.cfm?c_id=3&objectid=11859031

http://www.economist.com/news/ameri...r=dailydispatch

22 Eargesplitten posted:

I hope the next huge housing crash causing mass homelessness and debt-induced suicide comes in 5-10 years. Then I can get in on a sweet foreclosure deal.

Motronic posted:

The onset of a mental disorder.

monster on a stick posted:

Didn't Chris McCandless of "Into the Wild" fame do the same thing? I think he dropped out, sold everything, and went on his road trip to "find himself."

Devian666 posted:

He compares himself to Cortes. Maybe that would be a valid comparison if he had an army and was facing natives armed with sharpened mangoes to plunder their silver and gold. Of course it is just a long winded self justification for failing every single paper.

Weatherman posted:

Why is it every American child's dream to "be a CEO" these days? Why is every manchild working out of Starbucks or their friend's bedroom a "chief something or other"?

I would have thought a more concrete dream like "own my own _____ company" or "create the world's best ______" would be the sort of thing people aim for, instead of a meaningless title. Do people dream of being middle managers as well?

Virtue posted:

Being head honcho is great while everything is going right but not so much when things go wrong. I don't think many of the self proclaimed future CEO college kids consider the latter possibility.

Senor Dog posted:

I think you missed what this thread is for

Tiny Brontosaurus posted:

Yeah and he has some advantages that aren't universal, like living in a location/climate that allows him to live car-free relatively easily. His advice would be "just move," which is both not cheap and structurally impossible once you hit tragedy-of-the-commons adoption rates.

EugeneJ posted:

The ultimate "how much of a rich gently caress are you" test is to point to a full garbage can and ask that they take care of it

Rich people have never done this before and will probably consult Google for directions

GoutPatrol posted:

what the gently caress is a snapchat filter says a man still in his twenties

Zo posted:

I gotta say, it's pretty funny that lil miss snoopy golddigger's first reaction was "he should buy me half a car"

Suspicious Lump posted:

Jesus gently caress, gifts. There's a BWM. A slight derail but here goes:

A friend from work was leaving and moving to a different cities. As customary, all of her friends organised a card and a gift. We knew she needed the money, we know she didn't need more crap to have to relocate THREE THOUSAND KILOMETRES as the crow flies.

ate all the Oreos posted:

Maybe she just had like twenty thousand friends who all gave a dollar

Noctone posted:

That's more or less the definition of a currency, though. Believing that, in a scenario where the whole world goes to poo poo and chaos reigns, everyone will just accept gold/silver/rubies/whatever-the-gently caress as currency is just as absurd as believing everyone will keep using dollars/euros/yuan.

Ixian posted:

Meanwhile, in BWM news...

Article on underwater car loans:

https://jalopnik.com/a-record-32-percent-of-car-buyers-are-underwater-on-the-1789425396

Edmunds did a study where they found almost 1/3 of all vehicles offered for trade in 2016 were underwater. The average amount underwater was over 5k.

I knew it was bad, and we've seen plenty of anecdotal stories here, but I didn't realize how incredibly hosed it was. A third?! That many people are churning cars and piling on debt? It's an easy math problem to show why it's bad, so I can only imagine that greed/keeping up with the Jones's mentality is driving this. Or just plain vanilla stupid. Seems like a staggering house of cards being built.

Suspicious Lump posted:

This guy is leeching off his in-laws so hard it's GWM. My brother did something similar, free food, free rent, free everything all with a kid and wife.

Non Serviam posted:

Who else do you blame in a robbery?

Crazy Lady posted:

According to Ms Milasas, her first “tool for having money” is the “10 per cent account”, where you put away 10 per cent of everything you earn. “You are not setting it aside to pay bills with,” she writes. “You are not saving it for a rainy day ... You are putting it away as an honouring of you.”

But what if, she asks, people say, “I’ve got bills to pay! How can I put away 10 per cent of my income?” Well, she writes, “here’s the thing”. “If you pay your bills first, you will always have more bills.

“When you pay the bills first, the universe says, ‘Oh, okay. This person wishes to honour their bills. Let’s give them some more bills.’ If you honour yourself by setting aside 10 per cent first, the universe says, ‘Oh, they are willing to honour themselves. They are willing to have more,’ and it responds to that. It gives you more.”

Breetai posted:

I'm amazed at how remarkably even-handed some of those rulings are as well. You get things like "Appellant freely admits to massive bongrips of jazz cabbage in college, but no longer associates with his friends of that time in his life and hasn't lit one up since, clearance granted" but then you'll see a similar situation where the appellant has been evasive about their past actions and they get a great big NOPE for their troubles.

Vox Nihili posted:

I'm none too canny with this sort of thing, could someone please explain?

Motronic posted:

I'm not sure how to make this sound socially acceptable because I'm me. So let me just present my experience from being in high school in the 90s:

- "smart kids" went to academic classes where they learned college prep stuff like accelerated math, science and languages

- "normal kids" got the same, but not as advanced

- "dumb kids" got some of that, but also things like a class called "math for life", where they were actually taught how to balance a checkbook, make a budget for a home, shop for basic necessities, etc.

I'd say the last group probably got the best deal here.

22 Eargesplitten posted:

Virtue posted:

You only live once

monster on a stick posted:

I wonder which goon it was

Krispy Kareem posted:

That was the guy whose floor was ‘soft’ and whose kids got themselves ready and went to school all by themselves...but it was a Saturday I think, which is what tipped CPS off.

I can’t recall why their floor was soft. Covered in trash or just rotting through. Maybe cat piss? It was a Goon so any answer including all of the above can be accepted.