{"id":301,"date":"2021-05-02T19:51:29","date_gmt":"2021-05-02T19:51:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/moneyaintmath.com\/?p=301"},"modified":"2021-05-02T19:55:49","modified_gmt":"2021-05-02T19:55:49","slug":"why-we-cant-be-friends","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/moneyaintmath.com\/?p=301","title":{"rendered":"Why We Can&#8217;t Be Friends"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Friends are expensive.&nbsp; Not really, but have a tendency to be.&nbsp; And not because friends are expensive, but because one\/we tend(s) to spend money when around friends \u2026 ergo \/ to wit:&nbsp; no friends.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Now \u2013 that being said the typical human is not a misanthropic cave-dweller (of course never presume) and thus thirsts for other humans \u2026 how unfortunate.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Well, there\u2019s a solution for that, too \u2026 don\u2019t let your monkey have playdates.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">When out with the \u201cfriends,\u201d have cash in hand only, and when cash is done, so is the night\/fun\/festivities.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Easy for me.&nbsp; This is my fun TALKING TO INVISIBLE PEOPLE HIII-YYYEEE!!! so I\/we will admit to being a bit un-YOU-usual HOWEVER my anthropomorphic hostility does not negate the fact of the debt monkey, and the potential for significant size increase and the need to monitor the expenditures for fun while engaged with others in aforesaid fun.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Cash is the best way to do it, or a cash card BUT with electronic payment always embarrassing possibility of \u201cCharge Declined\u201d which under any conceivable circumstance is unpleasant and has NEVER occurred in the presence of cash.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I like cash.&nbsp; No one else does, but I do.&nbsp; Speaking of \u2026<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u2026 there was a really great unreality show called \u201c\u2018Til Debt Do Us Part\u201d and the star was this woman debt manager, a total sarcastic Amazon, perfection in flesh, and her debt satisfaction strategy was cash \u2026 all cash, all the time \u2026 credit [remember: debt] cards, debit [remember: cash] cards, any electronic payment methods, all gone \u2026 cash in jars, with spending limited to expenses \u2026 total fun free life.&nbsp; Gah.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Well, that is the traditional wisdom.&nbsp; When in debt, life must suck until out.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Psssh-SHAAH all over that.&nbsp; Like racism, I refuse to take responsibility for a system I had no hand in creating.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Nope, not mine.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Why?&nbsp; Well, yes I did buy that and spend that and purchase that \u2026 Well, yes that was my \u201cmoney\u201d and my decision and my choice to buy \u2026 however.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I have been lied to.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">By the \u201cmasters of mankind.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">See, their objective is to keep the majority of human beings in some sort of slavery, a perpetual habitrail of work, debt, struggle, repeat until die \u2026 I believe the old saying is \u201cnasty, brutish and short.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Via media, market and military \u2026 money = manipulation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The truth about \u201cmoney\u201d?&nbsp; Watch for the Trick \u2013 Don\u2019t fall for the Trap \u2013 Stuff is the Distraction \u2026<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Well, see, no one told me that.&nbsp; Sure, economics and accounting, but again \u2026 money ain\u2019t math.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">See, without $1.5T in student loan debt, $4T in consumer debt, and $10T in mortgage debt \u2026<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u2026 stagnation of wages and inflation of costs \u2026<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u2026 the Precariat remains too distracted by finances to organize for change to the status quo, <br>              and the \u201cmasters of mankind\u201d are free to continue \u2026 masturbating on the masses.&nbsp; Ewww.&nbsp; Smells like old spit.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Well now there is more know, all the know.&nbsp; <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">After all, knowledge is \u2026 what?&nbsp; {<em>Ecc. 7:12<\/em>}<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Friends are expensive.&nbsp; Not really, but have a tendency to be.&nbsp; And not because friends are expensive, but because one\/we tend(s) to spend money when around friends \u2026 ergo \/ to wit:&nbsp; no friends. 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