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Originally posted by sebastian_dangerfield
1. I am sworn to Revos for life. I never lose them and can't live without them. I have green/grey eyes, so its imperative I have good shades, cause I can't take the sun. I'd go Maui Jim, but I don't like the styles as much.
2. I've heard the "A Timex is as good as any watch, and and expensive watch is just advertising class insecurity" argument before. Fine. I'm a boorish yuppie jackass who likes a nice watch. I've had a lot of money in my pocket and I've had a little money in my pocket. Its only fun for spending anyway. Blowing a few grand on watches ain't going to be the difference between you retiring a bizarre miser at 50 or a harried, half dead burnt out lawyer at 65.
The whole "Millionaire Next Door" thing is horseshit. It cites fifty guys who lived lousy boring lives, squeezing pennies, and managed to squirrel away a pile of dough to start living at 50 (just in time for pancreatic cancer and heart disease). It doesn't even consider the thousands of people who did the same thing and didn't wind up with a million bucks. ...Another stupid self help book based on only the half of the data which supports the author's position.
And yet people swear by this bullshit like its fucking scientifically proven fact. I wonder if they also read that book by that convicted felon (fraud) who claims the govt is holding back an herbal cure for HIV and cancer. I believe he's sold about 3 million copies already.
Why I am writing here? I am a fool.
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Yeah! Why does that BRC moron think we are going to be taken in by the idiocy of that "Millionaire Next Door" shit? Does she really object to me going out for a nice dinner now and again, or spending a little extra on a mountain bike? Does she really think if I eat noodles every day and ride a Huffy, I'll be able to retire at 50? It is hard to believe, yet that is exactly what her post said. Thank you, Sebastian, for so ably dismantling the fallacy of BRC's inane get-rich-slow scheme.
