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Re:GM lays off engineer who helped expose VW’s diesel fraud by warp_factor on Wednesday May 08, 2019 @11:59AM (#19860116)
I'm pretty sure that the person you reply to had a crazy lifestyle inflation and is now unable to live "simply" again with less than 20k$ a month. This is everything that MMM warns about.
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Re:GM lays off engineer who helped expose VW’s diesel fraud by gcbw2 on Wednesday May 08, 2019 @12:48PM (#19860642)
Bay area have a problem trust-fund-baby mr mustache smug comments will never grasp: living around people who love crazy lifestyle inflation.

If people living around you keep paying more and more for expensive lifestyle, eventually you will be paying 5mil for a 2bd house in a so-so neighborhood. Because everyone already paid 7mil for the houses with 3bd.

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Re:GM lays off engineer who helped expose VW’s diesel fraud by warp_factor on Wednesday May 08, 2019 @01:11PM (#19860912)
Sure, you will pay 5-6k$ in rent (let's even say 8k$). But since you are making 25k$ a month after tax instead of 10k$, you are still coming ahead. Unless if you also need to buy a Tesla Model S like your cool neighbors.
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Re:GM lays off engineer who helped expose VW’s diesel fraud by throwaway082729 on Wednesday May 08, 2019 @04:49PM (#19862771)
No, I don't have that lifestyle. Except for house everything is paid off. Live relatively frugally except for eating out a few times a month (no expensive restaurants $12/person max)
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Re:GM lays off engineer who helped expose VW’s diesel fraud by purplezooey on Wednesday May 08, 2019 @01:39PM (#19861162)
yeah I'm tired of that guy. Stirring peanut butter with a drill is for the birds.
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