"Simple Living" is a luxury of the wealthy

Nov 17, 2010 04:46

We bought ourselves a Roku box a while back and one feature of owning it is that we're now able to watch NBC Nightly News every day. Last week they ran a series about simplifying one's life and we were suitably disgusted by all the information they *didn't* mention. For example, NBC was so enamoured of a millionaire who downsized and went to work ( Read more... )

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graywolf44 November 19 2010, 03:27:27 UTC
I'm totally with you on this.

What irks me the most about this type of "go green" article is that the message usually says either get rid of your car, or get a new one that gets good gas mileage.

What the authors of these articles fail to grasp is that those of us in a lower income bracket usually live far away from where we work with terrible mass transit options (if any), so having a car is absolutely necessary; the jobs we do have, don't pay us enough to afford a new car - it barely makes us able to pay for gas, and the constant repairs to keep our heap on the road, not to mention pay rent and utilities, and buy food. I drive a 1977 Chevy Caprice. It gets terrible mileage. It's bent and beat up a little. It only has an AM radio, over which I can only get one news radio station in clearly. I've had it since 2001. I paid cash for it, and own it outright - no car payments. Would I like something better, newer, that gets over 20 MPG? HECK YES, I would. But, I can't afford it, and my credit wouldn't let me pull a loan for a new(er) car, so I'm stuck with what I have right now.

And if you try to explain any of this to one of these asstwits snobs, they condescendingly look down their noses at you and say, "Oh, that's just an excuse. If you really wanted something different, you'd find a way.". I'm too old to be working more than one job anymore (and with the current economy, that idea is pretty much moot), like I was able to 30 years ago. I get tired. Too tired to tell them to stick their "it's just an excuse, blah, blah, blah" where the sun don't shine (but not too tired to think it!).

If these authors were made to live even one day like the rest of us, they would totally freak out and yell for their mommy!

/rant

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