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Originally Posted by homoe
After posting this yesterday, I thought about gas prices soaring, rents skyrocketing, and the cost of most groceries climbing out of reach, especially meats, who in hell in this day and age is flused with cash!
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Got no idea how these nuevo riche have so much money. Did they get the same stimulus checks that I got? It went for bills. Since CoVid, many businesses closed for good, at least up here. Folks are poor here. The idea of The Great Resignation is a frequently the butt of jokes at the market. No one is spending like there's no tomorrow. So, again I ask, did these people with the money to take expensive, unnecessary trips and buy some previously unseen evidence of Conspicuous Consumption get the same as I did?
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Are they spending their inheritance? All I know is that one NEVER spends the principle according to my parents who weathered the Great Depression rather nicely and always found money for charity. At home, we might have been told to tighten our belts, but charity was mandatory just like the electric bill. There are many going hungry in the US as well as elsewhere. I'm on SSDI, but still give about half of the it to charity. Maybe, they don't spend frivolously on charity. That could be it. I waste money on charity <said tongue-in-cheek>.