What Money Can’t Buy
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Money can buy you out of a situation that wholly depends on an objective, external circumstance that has a fixed price tag: This may be the narrow set of situations you can use money to “buy an exit”. If you don’t like the house you’re living in and you have enough money to buy the [...]
The Joneses (Movie) and Why It Can’t Become Reality
I think there is some truth in the insidious marketing tactics only not so egregious (and, I think, illegal although I’m not a lawyer and I may be wrong). There is clear misrepresentation or false representation of these people for a commercial purpose. That makes the company liable for false speech, if the company is [...]
Where the Money Goes
From the website: The average consumer has a budget that is split into a large number of monthly and yearly spending. The average consumer spends $49,638 a year on a range of necessary and desired expenditures. These expenditures come out of an annual household income of $63,091 per year on average, before taxes. The average [...]
Being Debt Free Is a Worthy Goal
I’ll speak from the perspective of how my mindset *did* worked differently when we had any debt versus when we had absolutely no debt (that included mortgage, after which it becomes what I call, “somewhat controlled rent” aka property taxes). When we had debt, many decisions I made relative to my self employment, all went [...]
10 Things That Will Cost Less in 2011
From HDTV to iPhones (seriously?! $49 for an iPhone?) to Kindle to Wii… Prices are dropping on the hardware in 2011. I wonder what these prices will be in 2012!
Why Smart People May Focus too Much Only On Making Money
Because money has become an objective metric that can serve to “equalize” the subjective values of “smart”. So we can argue about who’s smarter in the room, and each of us can have our own opinions about why someone is smarter than the other. But when we whip out our balance sheets and personal net [...]