We all work so hard to get our salary. But how much we got it’s really not enough to cope in this society as everywhere and everyone forcing us to pay for something really useless, purchase things that unworthy for our money, pay for entertainments (netflix, gaming, music, podcast, etc.) or just to show our friends and family we are living a luxurious life even though we really don’t want to.
What are some ways your money get leaked uncontrollably and you have no control on it or just forced to?
Toll roads. I see them as a failure of the people who allowed them to exist. It’s turning an administrarive/budget problem into a physical problem everyone has to deal with.
I am fine with spending excessive money on some things, but I shed tears of blood when I’m forced to give money to someone I hate. Most recently is was buying a refurbished Pixel 8 so I could use GrapheneOS. Spending a lot of money on a Google product was a prerequisite for using GrapheneOS.
Spending that much money for a phone to install a custom rom is insane. Do your threat model requires you to use grapheneos specifically? If no, then why not use a budget phone with lineageos and nogapps?
Security should never be taken lightly, though physical security is a different matter and GrapheneOS seems to talk about that a lot for what it’s worth.
If I were to buy a new phone today, I’d probably get an e-paper one with a degoogled OS. But I still (supposedly) have a decade before GrapheneOS stops supporting my phone.
Going with the spirit of the question, not the text (I don’t really think we are forced to pay for “extra” things, it’s all choice):
But one area I cannot comprehend is people buying cars on finance only to keep up with others who buy cars on finance.
Credit card roulette with friends at dinner and I lost.
Going out to bars when I was a student. I wanted to spend time with people, not spend money on the outing.
Every tax break for a billionaire or subsidy for a fossil fuel company is money we pay for things we don’t want
Who’s forcing you to spend to show you have a luxurious life? Better off living within your means and investing the difference.
I don’t mean everybody or just me lives that way. But many do…
I’m older, my kids are grown, and I’m kinda past caring what other people do and think. I have friends with kids who complain about how expensive it is to enroll kids in the activities that “everyone does.”
