• FourPacketsOfPeanuts@lemmy.world
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    20 days ago

    Same as all the muppets in the city dressed up to the nines in their new beemer than you know is on monthly payments.

    On the other hand; being debt free, now there’s a status symbol…

    • RightHandOfIkaros@lemmy.world
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      20 days ago

      Being debt free one of the few status symbols you cannot see. At that point, is it a status symbol if other people cannot see it?

      I mean, I still agree though. Be debt free, seriously.

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          20 days ago

          As someone starting up a custom t-shirt printing business desperately in need of building a customer base, I condone this message.

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        20 days ago

        A healthy financial life contributed to getting me a wife. It also would’ve gotten me laid if life hadn’t gotten in the way. A hot lady really liked my fiscal responsibility (her marriage was collapsing because her husband lacked that trait)

    • ArbitraryValue@sh.itjust.works
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      20 days ago

      being debt free

      I know a few people who are definitely not in a hurry to pay off low-interest mortgages from 2020 and 2021, but I suppose that they’re already in a very different financial position from the people who might consider going into debt for a watch.