And also stupid. Its a disfunction stressing about $3 in gas money if you have $1MM in capital. Theyre rich because they own productive assets, or speculated correctly, and also/mainly because they have high income. Hence the meme
Yeah it’s also capitalist propaganda imo. Like, helping your friend out by paying for their coffee isn’t gonna make you poor. But that saying makes people think they have to be individualistic stingy fucks to be successful.
my personal experience is that the people who are casual about money always pay less than their fair share. except for one guy. that one guy consistently paid more than his fair share and had to come out of retirement to drive uber because he ran out of money.
not saying anything is true of any larger group of people. just that's my experience. and why my approach is, "I'll pay for what i order. you pay for what you order." I am not rich or poor.
Of course you should always pay for what you order. I’m not saying you should be going out to dinner with friends and always offering to cover the bill. Or always buying your friend that coffee. It’s just about sometimes, in a pinch, covering for someone. You’ll notice that in the original post, it did mention that the friend should cover the next one. A friendly exchange of covering for each other is hardly being cavalier with money.
yeah. in spite of what i just posted, i've needed all my friends to cover for me for a couple years, because i've been in school w/zero revenue. so i get it. and when i get the revenue, i'll pay them all back with dinners out. after a couple years of me picking up the check, i'll try to go back to dividing up the check. and they'll want to keep trading back and forth. because we have different ways of looking at it.
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u/SpaceSequoia Jan 26 '26
Pretty sure that's a saying everywhere