Thread: Money, Money, Money… just where do you stand?

its prosperity that counts not money and is the main reason originally that most people IMO were/are so attracted to Thailand.

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Originally Posted by harrybarracuda

Jeff's got 20 baht then.

70 cents in Portland? Can't afford a bus ride to the thrift store!

At least he's got free internet at the library.

Old car, fish eggs, four star daydream.
I think I'll buy me some foot cream.

The Beatles wrote a song about me.


I'm a looser and I'm not what I appear to be.


the fish

Originally Posted by SKkin

the love of it...is...the root of all evil



...or has "money" always been God?

Money, gold, coloured beads, flint spear heads is all that's ever really counted. Religion was just a distraction to steal it off you.

Originally Posted by hallelujah

I suggest you FOJ

...ftfy...

Originally Posted by NamPikToot

Nid, true but Thailand, given its supposed Buddhist leaning is one of the worst examples of the religion - its diametrically opposed to the Buddhist tenet and i have no real understanding of how you can have the keepers of said religion so obviously at odds with it and running it like a business but still have the front to preach to people what they clearly don't practice- the poor in Thailand don't stand a chance and constantly run around under the burden of debt trying to live up to material expectations they'll never afford.

Luckily my Mrs is a tight bitch, monetarily.

Most Thais, however poor have some land though. The family structure accounts for a lot here.

Originally Posted by bowie

^ Money Is The Root Of All

It really doesn't matter how much money you have, what matters is how much money you have relative to how much money other people have, that is what determines the "Standard-of-Living" you are able to maintain.

Money is the artificial yardstick we use for comparative purposes. Otherwise, back to the barter system... how many shoes must the cobbler provide the roofer to patch the leak

It's the love of money that's said to be the root of all evil. Nothing intrinsically wrong with money/wealth even though in our strange world it's often attacked by those who made lots of it telling the impoverished it's evil.

...les gens qui ont ce qu'ils veulent aiment dire aux gens qui n'ont pas ce qu'ils veulent, qu'ils ne le veulent pas vraiment...

Where else to drop this?

Bottom 1% here. I was born a poor black child.

all those surveys only look at average, which is a misleading metric since the world wealth distribution is complete skewed by a factor of 1,000

looking at the medians would be a good start,

what are the medians like in that study ?

Originally Posted by AntRobertson

That's crazy.

and u r ignorant.

... you’re the moron that’s always whining about posters not contributing and just attacking others right?

Enjoy your red. You’ll probably cry about that too.

Agree that the stats are pretty crazy, guess I am pretty fortunate. Although when I look at percentiles for the UK it seems I am not even in the top 50%

Originally Posted by Maanaam

I don't know about that. In your parents' time, most middle and lower class people could get by with Dad working and Mum staying at home doing the housework. These days both Dad and Mum have to work just to pay the rent.

There is no objective measure by which any people anywhere can be said not to be better off on average than they were 100 years ago in terms of any quantifiable measure of human flourishing.

This is true for every demographic you could choose whether that be social stratification, race, gender, sexual orientation, geographical location.

This is also true of any measure of human flourishing whether that be longevity, wealth, education, healthcare, IQ, nutrition, egalitarianism, equal opportunity, technological advance, philosophical wisdom, total objective knowledge of the universe.

Our little planet is getting better by the decade in terms of human well-being whether we like it or not.

Money is relative. I know people that have a lot and they are miserable MF's. I know some living on the edge and they are happy and just make it work. Money only makes things easier if you learn to live within your means. Most fail miserably at that. They start to make more and then spend more and usually only go deeper in debt. Then when the bottom falls out, they have to liquidate all the shit they amassed to get through it or worse yet start taking from the IRA or 401K to make ends meet. Its a slippery slope.

IMO, money is the root of all evil and corruption. It has been, and always will be. I say find your spot in life and live it. I plan on running out of money by 75 or so. After that IDGAF as I will become just another coffin dodger waiting to bite the bullet.

Originally Posted by hallelujah

I suggest you "connect" yourself to the nearest plug socket and relieve the world of one of its oxygen thieves.

Originally Posted by bowie

It is all in the presentation

...that's what the local beggars are taught...

So if you spend your time as being just another mollusk, who is to say you're as happy as another clam?

Tis nor wide as a river, nor deep as a well but ask for me tomorrow and yee shall find me a grave man.

Well? I'd give it a go.......


fish.