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Originally Posted by Table 5
It's sound advice for the middle class and the generally lazy. But the truly poor who are generally screwed no matter what they do, I'm sure it rings a little hollow.
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Not really.
Back in the early 1980's in Peace River, earning about $700 a month, I did a budget and saw I could save $25 a month, which meant by Spring I would have saved $125 and therefore I might be able to take a little driving vacation. That is, if everything went perfectly.
I also remember having $20 for two weeks of food once. Lots of Campbell's soup and toast in those two weeks.
I've been there. At zero. And bitter with those who had money and threw it around in my face.
Her advice is sound.
It's only unfortunate the advice is coming from someone in the "Let Them Eat Cake" set. I get that.
These days I'm surrounded by millionaires. Talk to them every day. Most of them have very, very common beginnings not too dissimilar from my own in fact.
The common denominator is persistence through a lifetime of working. No miracle solution or motherlode.
Pretty much what Ugly, Rich Lady is saying.
Cowperson