Oh Dear ™ Doomed! ® - part 2

[SallyAnne]

if someone has borrowed to the hilt with no thought to the future (stupid)

In the majority of the country, this is called survival SAS. Not stupid.

as opposed to someone who has saved and/or invested wisely (clever)

And this is called privileged.
I dont know many people who can afford the luxury of saving - I guess they're stupid too?

[DimPrawn]

Thing is, you have to take risks to make money. Borrow to invest, leveraged investments etc.

Risk takers can fail, and so do morons. Often it's hard to tell them apart.

HTH

[oracleslave]

Thing is, you have to take risks to make money. Borrow to invest, leveraged investments etc.

Risk takers can fail, and so do morons. Often it's hard to tell them apart.

HTH

I would agree with that as there is a certain amount of luck/timing etc involved.

[Spartacus]

I'm Spartacus.

Yes, I am.

[sasguru]

In the majority of the country, this is called survival SAS. Not stupid.



And this is called privileged.
I dont know many people who can afford the luxury of saving - I guess they're stupid too?

You've mentioned your rate a couple of times. It's more than mine when I was contracting. How come I can save and you can't?
And I'm not privileged. I haven't inherited a penny and went to state school.
Anything I have I made myself.

[SallyAnne]

You've mentioned your rate a couple of times. It's more than mine when I was contracting. How come I can save and you can't?
And I'm not privileged. I haven't inherited a penny and went to state school.
Anything I have I made myself.

I never said me - of course I can save I'm a contractor ffs!!

I was talking about the majority of the country who dont earn our wages - who do not have the ability to save, who barely get by on their wages. Those poeple are not stupid because they are in debt up to their eyeballs - they're just living! Just getting by!

Not everyone in the country is as blessed as we are - and by blessed I mean whatever "nurture or nature" made us go contracting....opportunity? ambition? parental guidance? natural ability to learn? Asberger gene? Who knows. Not everyone has is. Infact not everyone has the chance to use it, even if they DO have it!


Your comment just seemed cold thats all - unlike you normally.

[Bagpuss]

Your comment just seemed cold thats all - unlike you normally.

Don't be sarcastic Sally

[Spacecadet]

this thread reminds me of the Grapes of Wrath

[sasguru]

I never said me - of course I can save I'm a contractor ffs!!

I was talking about the majority of the country who dont earn our wages - who do not have the ability to save, who barely get by on their wages. Those poeple are not stupid because they are in debt up to their eyeballs - they're just living! Just getting by!

Not everyone in the country is as blessed as we are - and by blessed I mean whatever "nurture or nature" made us go contracting....opportunity? ambition? parental guidance? natural ability to learn? Asberger gene? Who knows. Not everyone has is. Infact not everyone has the chance to use it, even if they DO have it!


Your comment just seemed cold thats all - unlike you normally.

Fair enough. But there are also loads of self-indulgent people who'll buy stuff they don't need and can't afford in order to show they have an "aspirational lifestyle". They deserve what they get.
It may be different down south to the north, maybe we have more idiots down here. When I lived up North (well if Yorkshire counts as North) it seemed things were different - people were more down to earth.

[Bagpuss]

and everyone knows a Yorkshireman could peel an orange in his pocket