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By thejacqueline on Chatting With My Parents About How (And Why) They Paid For My College Education
I feel bad for Jennifer.
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By SarcasticFringehead on How Much Do You Spend on Groceries Every Week?
@SarcasticFringehead PS I love these posts. Graphs and comparing myself to other people are two of my favorite things.
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By OllyOlly on How Much Do You Spend on Groceries Every Week?
@OllyOlly And apparently this thread will be where I feel crazy about how much I spend on groceries since everyone else seems to spend significantly less than me...
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By selenana on Google Island
@stuffisthings Probably because St. Yahoo does trade with a lot of other countries even though they don't have the US's most favored nation status anymore.
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By stuffisthings on Super-Parents Products
Also, why are people only a little bit taller than they were before the industrial revolution. I mean, people are on average like a foot taller, but economic productivity has gone up several hundred percent. Why aren't we all forty feet tall?
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By stuffisthings on Super-Parents Products
Also, why are people only a little bit taller than they were before the industrial revolution. I mean, people are on average like a foot taller, but economic productivity has gone up several hundred percent. Why aren't we all forty feet tall?
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By stuffisthings on Google Island
(The island of St. Yahoo was fully submerged by global warming in 2003 without anyone noticing, but it still has a seat at the UN for some reason.)
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By stuffisthings on Google Island
Or the Facebook Archipelago, which is like attending a wedding during Spring Break in Cancun where everyone is handing you their baby pictures and trying to get you to buy Starbucks gift cards and your grandparents are there for some reason and look, there's that weird guy from high school who got fat shouting about Benghazi.
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By stuffisthings on Google Island
Hey, it sure as hell beats the sun-bleached slab of guano that is Microsoft Atoll.
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By Mike Dang on One Day at a Time
@Madge Olen's point isn't that that kind of advice isn't useful. She makes it clear that people should know how to manage their money. Bringing your lunch to work makes sense if you can't afford to buy it every day. Olen's point is that the financial services industry wants to convince people that their financial problems stem from individual choices—and they make a ton of money telling people what they're doing wrong and how to fix themselves. The financial services industry doesn't talk about systemic problems because it's against their own interest to do so. Credit card companies don't make money giving out rewards to people who pay off their balances every month—they make money from people who go into debt and pay interest. The latte advice is not wrong. Yes, it is true that you can take the money you spend on lattes and put it in a retirement or brokerage account. Undeniable. And yes, people have used that advice and benefitted from it. But the latte advice distracts from the larger, systemic problems for a lot of people who don't have a problem with buying expensive lattes. That is her criticism—not that the advice is wrong. Since it's not in the interest of the financial industry to point out those problems to us, its up to us to start pointing out these problems and talk about it. In this particular column, Olen is saying that the current way of getting people to save for retirement isn't quite working, and it might be easier to get people in the habit of saving by starting out with smaller goals.