Fair enough but if you have the means, NFCU has almost no cost. I get something small but like .4% interest on my checking account. Their credit card has no annual fee and I average $800 a year in cash back benefits from it. Other than buying paper checks, I’ve not paid them one penny for any services, a way better deal than I was getting at BofA.

For me, it was What About Bob?

Because this is a forum where people share perspectives. If you don’t want to hear them then don’t read the comments.

That’s very noble of you, but in our capitalist systems, those who provide the most needed and valuable services are often paid the least. You may feel that telling someone to get better educated and moving somewhere cheaper will solve their problem, but then someone else will fill their past role. Our most expensive cities will always need janitors, line cooks, laborers, shelf stockers and many other roles that will never pay much. We can’t all be coders making 6 figures working remotely from bumbfuck nowhere. This doesn’t even take into account disabled people who can’t provide much or any value in the eyes of our system. You basically want to tell people to bootstrap, just in a gentler way.

No one makes that much money through work, it is through investments. Remove social security tax limits and beef up our nationalized retirement systems then tax investments to death. I don’t care if people are disincentivised from investing in businesses that don’t make any money. I know I’ll ruffle some feathers with this but I truly believe all space travel investments should be redirected to something that can make an immediate difference for those already on the planet, like healthcare or services for those effected by climate change.

Awesome, thanks for sharing! I ordered my free replacement. Glad I got the 3 year warranty.

That sounds absolutely adorable!

I got the litter robot. I’ve had it 9 months. I have a cat that loves to dig and the rubber liner doesn’t look like it’s going to hold up for more than 2 years because she scratches the same spot relentlessly, but I still love it. I’d buy a new one every other year if I needed to.

So true. My boss makes about a million a year and gets whiny whenever we deal with clients that make more than him. He has plenty of money but that will never buy the parental love that he didn’t get as a child.

My husband and I didn’t have financial stability in office jobs until we moved into middle management. It’s a very different type of job, even if you’re doing the same sort of work. I don’t have a degree, but I have several innate traits that make me excel at it. My husband doesn’t have those innate skills, but he followed an educational path that gave him the credentials he needed to receive those opportunities (bachelor’s degree, then a project management certification).