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Originally Posted by Resurrection

At work I can pre buy stock options ... up to a maximum of 15% of my pay cheque.

2 weeks ago, I legitimately changed my deduction. I went from 4% to 8%. (for ease of numbers.. I did something different but whatever)

If you listen to team Conservative cheering on here... they would suggest that I should explain to my wife that my stock deductions are now 100% higher than before. That's how stupid this conversation is.

Let's compare these two explanations.

1) "Hey Wife, my stock option is 8% now, not 4%. I've increased it by 4%"

2) "Hey Wife, my stock option is 8% up from 4%.... I've increased my stock option by 100%"

Which one of these sounds stupid, convoluted, and unnecessarily complicated and will likely result in a follow up question?

We're already measuring this number as a % of something. To measure the increase as a % of that % is stupid and unnecessary. If this was just rent for instance, and we were dealing with Dollars... ya, % matters and provides context. My 1000$ a month rent is now 1500? Thats a huge increase.. and math can tell us how much a % of an increase it is. If my monthly rent is instead 20% of my monthly earnings some how ... and it went up to 25%.... why the #### would you want to make things so complicated and calculate the % increase on a % already?? No one does their budgets this way do they? Really??

Literally no one at my work place explains it with option #2. People on team conservative are doing it because it sounds scary and we all know how the right wingers love to get peoples dander up and pedal fear. It's actually really pathetic that were still even debating it. If team Blue was still in charge they'd be saying it the other way, but, you can't sell fear with such a small number like a 2% increase. Politics has become such a game and a sporting like event that people are acting in such outrageous and nonsensical ways I honestly can't bring myself to try and enter that mindset. It's like Bill Clinton trying to change the meaning of "is".

Maybe no one says they've increased their contribution by 100%, but I bet a lot of people would say they've doubled their contribution.