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Originally Posted by sebastian_dangerfield
Also consider this... A lot of the people who appear rich are levered up their eyeballs. I still gag when somebody uses the term "rich lawyers." Joe Sixpack seems to have no clue about how many "rich" people are actually cash poor flashy fucks. Their Benz is leased, they're house poor carrying the McMansion, they're shuffling credit cards and stealing from their business lines of credit, and they're selling shit on EBay to pay the kids' tuitions at Fistlethwait Academy.
The Joneses are the ultimate suckers at the table. Dumb fucks could retire by 45 if they did it right. But instead, they're Living the Dream, just as Madison Ave has sold it to successions of clueless upper middle class fucks for a century (or at least since Edward Bernays came on the scene). |
Dude, Joe Six-Pack is equally overextended - only he has a rusted-out 1996 Ford F-150, an underwater 2 bedroom 1 bath tract house, and has garage sales to pay for his kid's Little League fees. That "lawyers ain't rich" schtick is, frankly, bullshit.* I guarantee you that even if Joe's house was still appreciating, his truck was paid off and not in need of new tires and brakes, and the Little League fees were waived, he'd happily trade it all for an underwater McMansion and a leased Benz,
I mean, Lord Grantham constantly whines on Downton Abbey** about high taxes and being broke, too.
* Yes, not all lawyers are "rich" per the standards of Not Bob and Joe Six-Pack, but we're not talking about legal aid lawyers, assistant DAs/assistant public defenders, or others who earn less than a Starbucks assistant manager.
** Yeah, I know. But I have a little crush on the actress who plays Lady Mary and the Irish chauffeur's Fenian past appeals to me.
