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re: #180 Dr Lizardo
Yeah, Kevin O’Leary can take a seat and shut the fuck up. Read his bio.
As a poor person, I get to go on that merry-go-round often. I hate it. Consider this Twitter exchange:
It’s never the affluent who get criticized, only the poors. I have no love for $1000 phones but I have no idea who’s really buying them. “Retirement?” For a lot of people, they were never going to have that life anyway. But scolds don’t listen.
— David Moisan (@dmoisan) August 8, 2020
Being poor is not a sin or something to be ashamed about but frugality is a virtue all should practice.
— Ashish Kelkar (@askelkar) August 8, 2020
It’s the mirror image of consumption. It has the same flaws when taken to extremes. It’s one thing to be frugal for MYSELF (and I am!), but professional frugalists get judge-y pretty quickly when you’re not frugal like they are frugal.
— David Moisan (@dmoisan) August 8, 2020
Ashish reminds me of the professional frugalist Amy Dacycisn, who wrote “The Tightwad Gazette” series of books. On the face of it, she gave good advice at first, but then she really got extreme with her frugality. There was no end to her frugality. Her low point was when she was a guest on Good Morning America, and when she saw the continental breakfast they put out, she tried to steal the whole thing!
That is not how I think or behave, to be blunt.
I think, when she concluded her newsletter and stopped writing, she was a straight-up asshole, a Karen, who would judge you if you were not frugal like she was frugal. These financial advisors know the price of everything and the value of shit.
