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Montauk6

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7. I've always had a serious question about that...

Reply to Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin (Original post)

Tue Nov 5, 2024, 04:03 PM

Nov 2024

Suppose everyone DID live within their means, I'm talking pinching pennies till they bleed. Wouldn't the economy collapse? No one would buy smartphones or designer clothes or computers or TVs etc. Cars, houses? Usually they involve some kind of financing, right? Living LITERALLY within ones means would mean there'd better be a lot of apartments and mass transit about. Tourism would probably go belly up.

I just love how these lazy-fairy-tale capitalists think their outlook is just a given.

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