I'm sorry for your problems, but could you please clarify a few questions for me because there are a lot of problems with what I'm reading:
1) You claim to be 22 years old, but your dad hasn't had a relationship with your mom in 25 years... what does that even mean?
2) You're 22 years old and you accumulated $150k already? What sort of work did you do, and for how long?
3) You claim to be penniless, but you spend you money on Uber all the time because you can't drive in the snow? Can you expand on this? Don't you think that Uber is an expensive choice for someone in your situation?
4) Your credit rating is already "bamboozled" and you're $6k in debt? But didn't you just have $150k 8 months ago? When did your credit rating start taking a hit?
5) Could you expand on the treatments that your mom underwent over the last 4 months that cost $150k?
I have to say I find it suspicious that 284 days ago he posted about how he had "no cash to build an MVP" and yet 3 months later he had 150k in savings.
It was more of an open-ended question for discussion, and I was wondering how other people had bootstrapped themselves when they needed to buy product in order to kickstart something.
It seems you were begging for money for a brand-new project of yours. I actually remember it from last year. If you were dishonest about money then, why should we trust you now?
I found this believable. Hi lived in LA and saved some money. Single person, some reasonable skills, shared accommodation, not buying ijunk.... he could made this savings in 2 years. Not everyone has student loan.
1. They don't get along. They haven't slept in the same bed in 25 years. tl;dr my father is Catholic and doesn't believe in divorce, and no matter how big of an asshole my father is to my mother, she won't divorce him because she still loves him.
2. I mentioned it in the post, but to clarify: sold some tech to a hosting company, sold a few domains I scooped up, lotto ticket, had some really well-paying clients.
3. Again, I mentioned that I have free monthly Uber credit.
4. It became fucked when I was 18. I don't have credit cards, nor do I believe in them. Yes, I know there are other ways to recoup them, but still.
5. Everything from proton therapy to Folotyn to Gamma Knifes. Brain tumors are expensive.
1) If you don't believe in credit cards, how did you get in $6000 debt in 6 months?
2) How do you get free monthly Uber credit?
3) That's 3 very intense treatments over the course of 6 months. That doesn't leave very much room for monitoring to see whether or not the treatment worked. What was the schedule of treatment over 6 months?
>3) You claim to be penniless, but you spend you money on Uber all the time because you can't drive in the snow? Can you expand on this? Don't you think that Uber is an expensive choice for someone in your situation?
It says that he won a credit. Hence, being free, it does sound like the cheapest option.
I use munchery 2-3 times per week. I love it, it's restaurant quality meals at similar price point. The difference is that I don't like the subscription idea, since I want a meal to be opt-in rather that opt-out. I don't want to have to change my plans and then be forced to cancel with this service.
Do you even know why the US went off the gold standard? If gold is such a panacea, then why did the US get off it? You should really understand history before you start spouting nonsense.
Your entire understanding of the credit crisis is deeply flawed.
1) Savers do not create jobs. Spenders create jobs. When you get a situation where people would rather save their money than spend it (ie. Japan) then you get deflation, and the economy contracts leading to lost jobs. This is why Japan is trying desperately to increase inflation through Abenomics.
2) To explain the credit crisis would take a lot more than just a few paragraphs, but your fundamental statement that it was caused because people stopped parking their money in financial instruments is just wrong.
1) Saving in itself does not create jobs, but savers allow for jobs to be created.
2) Not my fundamental statement at all.. My point was that the supply of credit (significantly shrunk due to reasons beyond a few paragraphs) can kill jobs.
I'm a right-wing-leaning centrist, and I do not believe in the trickle down theory that you are implying. Making rich people richer, and allowing poorer people to feed off of the morsels and crumbs leftover does not create a balanced society. There will always be rich people, and there will always be poor people, but thinking that if you bias towards the rich people society will somehow get better is a horrible delusion.
I don't think anyone figures it makes the most balanced society, they just see it as the most realistic way to help the people at the bottom of the structure. Basically applying "Rising tide lifts all boats" in the opposite direction as the liberals, tops-down instead of bottoms-up.
Based on every single piece of study, this is categorically false. The only people that have benefited, most recently since the credit crisis, was the rich. That means that the "rising tide" barely lifts poor peoples' boats, while it raises rich people's boats significantly. If that were the case, then do you still think that trickle down economics is worthwhile? Or is there a more efficient allocation scheme where poor people benefit just as much as rich people?
You're cherry picking a period which actually helps to make sliverstorm's point: The last few years have been categorized by significant increases in taxes, and regulatory burden, which cause uncertainty in the business environment and more pain for the middle class.
Unfortunately, historically, all the evidence supports the 'rising tide lifts all boats' argument. While growth 'at the bottom' has slowed compared to the top, it's still growing. There are plenty of theories for why this is the case, but the data is is there.
So, now you can be banned by Valve because of a thought crime? Shouldn't you actually be cheating to be kicked off the network, instead of just reading up on it? What if you visit a Warcraft 3 fan site that has href to images on Shadow French or other thought crime sites? Won't that show up in your DNS cache as well? (Answer: yes it will)
Can the merchants keep the currency that they get paid in and elect to convert it at their choosing, or does it get immediately converted to whatever their home currency is?
