What annoys me is whenever there’s a discussion about this is theres always someone popping up saying “yeah but I personally make above $X and hour from tips working at a fancy establishment so let’s just leave things as they are now and not disturb the system”. How about no.

I didn’t say having children was a *bad* choice, just that it *was* a choice, and a choice that costs them a fortune. And if they lived elsewhere, had a cheaper mortgage, cheaper or fewer cars, no insane childcare and lessons, etc. etc. they wouldn’t need that extra $250k, PLUS they’d be raising their own children.

No, I don’t call someone struggling by in a big city a “luxury lifestyle.” I will readily recognize that there are plenty of people legitimately struggling to make ends meet.

The couple in this story has no concept of what it means to be poor. Apparently you don’t, either. Hell, *I* don’t have much of a concept of what it means to be poor, and I only make $36,000 a year ($24k after taxes) and yet somehow I manage to live on half that and save $6k/year.

Then you’re probably living in a pretty nice area, and the standard of living/experience of living there is much nicer than average. A case of paying for an experience, not an asset, but the end result is still a better-than-average life.

Eh, those of us of a certain age wanted Todd Marinovitch’s dad to shut the fuck up back in the day. And there have been countless annoying white tennis parents who needed to go away.

“Just fuck me up, fam.”

Clearly they have to be chronic masturbators

This retort makes me very happy

I get the impression you’ve been waiting a long time to tell this story.

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I was going to write you off for some of your earlier comments but this one shows that you really are just trying to get it and that absolutely needs to be encouraged. Keep going, I think you are definitely picking up a lot of what people are putting down. It can most definitely get tiring trying to understand just as…

What do you mean, good sir?

BREAKING: Democrats are more pessimistic about Republican led administration than Republicans.

There are multiple retired Rusty Kuntz from major league baseball.

Deadspin would not be worse off if we had more posts about mid-90s to early 00s WCW and WWF/E.

A failure? That’s just cold-blooded man.

Seriously, can any of you even imagine a world in which poor people got to eat but we didn’t have Vanderbilt university? Then who would come in last in the SEC?

Pretty much. It turns out that the higher up you go, the more you will need to interact and communicate with people. That’s not just the management track, either; that’s being a team lead, systems engineer, subject matter expert, or whatever.

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