236 pts ยท December 12, 2018
I've owned both, doesn't feel all that crazy to me.
Well now we're just getting into time travel paradox turf. How do I retain the personal growth after the learning experience that provided it has been undone? And as I step through the blue door, how did I even know to go back to undo it, if it was already undone in my past by my future self? Does this mean I'm not in my own past, but the past of a different version of me? Etcetera.
Absolutely this. Me without the lessons learned from my mistakes was a wretched little shit. Me after them is someone I'm relatively happy being, however long and hard the road was. Me after my mistakes and with $10mil? I like the sound of that guy even more...
And somehow I did not realize this before I moved here >_<
I kinda get it, it's mad how different your quality of life is when you make the same amount on either side of the Atlantic
I can see a case for salary being based around cost of living PLUS a flat amount that's agnostic to geography, or something similar.
Your point certainly has validity to it. I don't think it's as simple as either of us present it (thank character limits for that).
Also, this overlooks people moving to escape an area with poor economic prospects but no lucrative offer waiting.
A large salary which you won't be making until successfully relocated. Cost of moving, proof of income for signing a lease, etc.
It's hard to get out of penny pinching if you've had to do it to survive for years, I've never stopped living like I'm on minimum wage
living makes that go further, but it keeps your ability to save proportionate to income too, trapping lower income folks in low income areas
How much money you have left over has changed dramatically; $75k Vs $37.5k in your example. Obviously living in an area with lower cost of
As a UK citizen living in the US: I cannot adequately describe how much of a capitalist hellscape this country is
#1 oh dear, you poor things... you thought that 18 was when it turned nasty? I have bad news waiting in the next dozen years or so.
OP posted it 1 hour earlier
The cow, I guess?
Amazing
Looked up to or admired, no. Pitied or even empathized with (his experiences, not his actions), yes.
Hell, this has existed since the first time someone realized they could use hierarchy to retain more than their fair share.
Only starting now? Damn. You have some catching up to do.
What, like they receive treatment then run? Don't they have to provide insurance info up front or something?
Wait what? I have clearly been lied to
I would love to be wealthy enough to go to the emergency room for relatively trivial things.
Spider bites are waaaaay down low on the list of "things I'd prefer to just risk ignoring when bankruptcy is the alternative".
IDK I feel like the young Henry Kissinger is going to need a visit pretty urgently as well
Well damn, right in the feels. Spent my whole marriage trying to convey that sometimes I just needed a hug to be ok, never got anywhere.
Suck on that Hancock, you father-knows-best prick.
Manager here, this is the lie I tell to myself because outside the job I have literally nobody and my team are my sole emotional investment.
I've owned both, doesn't feel all that crazy to me.
Well now we're just getting into time travel paradox turf. How do I retain the personal growth after the learning experience that provided it has been undone? And as I step through the blue door, how did I even know to go back to undo it, if it was already undone in my past by my future self? Does this mean I'm not in my own past, but the past of a different version of me? Etcetera.
Absolutely this. Me without the lessons learned from my mistakes was a wretched little shit. Me after them is someone I'm relatively happy being, however long and hard the road was. Me after my mistakes and with $10mil? I like the sound of that guy even more...
And somehow I did not realize this before I moved here >_<
I kinda get it, it's mad how different your quality of life is when you make the same amount on either side of the Atlantic
I can see a case for salary being based around cost of living PLUS a flat amount that's agnostic to geography, or something similar.
Your point certainly has validity to it. I don't think it's as simple as either of us present it (thank character limits for that).
Also, this overlooks people moving to escape an area with poor economic prospects but no lucrative offer waiting.
A large salary which you won't be making until successfully relocated. Cost of moving, proof of income for signing a lease, etc.
It's hard to get out of penny pinching if you've had to do it to survive for years, I've never stopped living like I'm on minimum wage
living makes that go further, but it keeps your ability to save proportionate to income too, trapping lower income folks in low income areas
How much money you have left over has changed dramatically; $75k Vs $37.5k in your example. Obviously living in an area with lower cost of
As a UK citizen living in the US: I cannot adequately describe how much of a capitalist hellscape this country is
#1 oh dear, you poor things... you thought that 18 was when it turned nasty? I have bad news waiting in the next dozen years or so.
OP posted it 1 hour earlier
The cow, I guess?
Amazing
Looked up to or admired, no. Pitied or even empathized with (his experiences, not his actions), yes.
Hell, this has existed since the first time someone realized they could use hierarchy to retain more than their fair share.
Only starting now? Damn. You have some catching up to do.
What, like they receive treatment then run? Don't they have to provide insurance info up front or something?
Wait what? I have clearly been lied to
I would love to be wealthy enough to go to the emergency room for relatively trivial things.
Spider bites are waaaaay down low on the list of "things I'd prefer to just risk ignoring when bankruptcy is the alternative".
IDK I feel like the young Henry Kissinger is going to need a visit pretty urgently as well
Well damn, right in the feels. Spent my whole marriage trying to convey that sometimes I just needed a hug to be ok, never got anywhere.
Suck on that Hancock, you father-knows-best prick.
Manager here, this is the lie I tell to myself because outside the job I have literally nobody and my team are my sole emotional investment.