How much does it cost to stay on the moon? Because it would be nice to travel to the moon a couple times a year, and not at all unreasonable.

Not gullible, just wildly entitled to think that two $12k vacations a year is some type of necessity.

We were treated really rudely in Zanzibar. Most people who travel all the way there are quite well off, so the tourism industry does what it can to squeeze visitors for all they've got. Multiple times we agreed to prices or services, only to be charged more later and given shady reasoning as to why the agreed upon…

Thanks. It was gorgeous, but I'll be honest — the Caribbean is just as beautiful and a heck of a lot closer and cheaper to get to. The best thing about Africa is experiencing the different people and cultures, and for that I'd skip the islands and stick to the mainland and off the beaten path. The more beachy the…

And I'd also disagree that a Holiday Inn is frugal or somehow roughing it. Maybe you're just that fancy. Motel 6 is roughing it, or a Travelodge, or a hostel. I realize it's not the W or the Four Seasons, but Holiday Inn Express is a pretty nice chain. I mean, it's nicer than my trailer park and the bridge I sometimes…

Yes, in my opinion, the expectation to take your hypothetical family on Paris-level vacations twice a year, every year, for life, as a standard of living is extravagant. It's up to people what they do with their lives, of course, but I'm not going to feel sorry for the financial struggles of $12k biannual family…

I can afford to blow $12 grand on a vacation; I'm just not a self-obsessed ignorant materialist trying to fill the void of my low self esteem with shiny things and hefty price tags. It certainly does make me better. The two highest-earning (by leaps and bounds) guys I dated were - underneath their entitled arrogance -…

We spent most of our time in Kenya, but we also traveled to Zanzibar and the Seychelles. This was last summer right before the terrorist violence escalated; I'm not sure I would feel safe visiting there right now. We were lucky to be matched with a safari operator through a local volunteer group we worked with, and I…

A 2-week, all-inclusive Caribbean family vacation would be a once-in-a-lifetime or once-in-a-few-years experience for most. This "rich people problems" budget attempts to normalize the trip you describe as a bi-annual necessity. Most working adults get 2 or 3 weeks of vacation a year, if they're lucky, and that would…

My friend and I detoured to the Seychelles (royal wedding honeymoon spot, shout out!) while visiting Africa. She found the strangest B&B deal on a travel site where we wound up staying for a week. It was literally a castle on a mountainside. The French host couple who ran the place prepared us several-courses meals…

"It's important to shop around." No, it isn't. It's not important to shop around if you are a person earning such a ridiculous amount of money that you don't bat an eye when tossing money left and right. I feel extravagant ordering "unnecessary" sodas at restaurants, knowing full well I could order a water. Does that…

Right. Because a $12k vacation for two parents and two kids isn't extravagant or unrealistic (twice a year, natch); it's just good living.

I volunteered and traveled in Africa for 6.5 weeks last summer. Our entire trip cost me around $5k, including airfare from the U.S. It is the most expensive trip I've ever taken.

This is so embarrassing. Like, this is our society. These are our spiritual leaders. This isn't even enraging; it's just sad.

"I have a crunchy allergy." This is so great.

People are such fucking losers.

...and it's always the oldest, fattest, baldest guys complaining about women's looks. It would be funny if it weren't so sad. Like that unimpressive-looking tooljob who made a video graphing desirable versus undesirable segments of the female population based on axes of "looks" and "crazy." I'm like, dude, do you own…

Yep.

Wasn't it a finance guy who wrote that terrible post on... what was it... OK I have no idea what I'm talking about.

Look, maybe he did make $32k "since June," and maybe he is proud of (/arrogant about) it. But here is what I also know about dudes who validate themselves by bragging about money: They will take the most money they ever made (bonuses, commissions, an error in payroll, whatever) in the shortest amount of time, and then…