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Originally Posted by Crompsin
It wasn't a luxury, bro. It was a reward for giving up a year of my life. I did twice. I bought some toys with it. I'm paying my way through college without loans. In the end, I'd say that is a fair enough trade.
Just sign on the line, bro... you too can experience the joy of a year on another planet and come home to all these great "luxuries" we speak of here.
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You stated the obvious: Yesterday's luxuries are today's necessities. Cars, cell phones, college educations.
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No, they aren't. I'm not saying you didn't earn your truck, I'm saying you didn't need it. They are luxuries by definition.
Now if you got that truck, and then whined about not being able to pay your rent and how hard it is, then you deserve a reality bitch slap.
I'm all for luxuries, the more the better, but I'm sick of people who decide that things are harder now than in the past without a clue about what they are talking about.
And no most of what you listed are not necessities they are in fact luxuries, its only because 'everyone else has them' that it becomes a need in peoples minds. Then they can all bitch about how expensive life is as if they weren't doing it to themselves.
I have two living grandmothers who grew up during the depression and had their kids in the 40's 50's.
A luxury to the first, was meat twice a week, and there was the one kid who drove to school when one was in highschool. A luxury to the second was pretty much the same. One never had a lot of money in the 50's and lived pretty much as I described. The other did, my grandfather used to be a major executive for a very well known company, they had a 'big' house. That house is smaller than most of the starter homes bought by young 2 income families today where I live.
People today seem to think their means should fit their lifestyle, not the other way around.