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busenbust

^Budgetary constraints mean I cannot purchase that lovely iMac at this moment in time:(

asininity

Leopard wrote: »

The problem with money savers is that, whilst money saving is good financial housekeeping, it is fundamentally negative if pursued as a philosophy.

This is what is being demonstrated by the current state of the British economy.

The amount of money that can be saved is finite. It reaches a point at which no more can be saved. Then what?

Money making, on the other hand, has no real boundaries. Its capacity for growth is, effectively limitless. And wealth creation, if applied responsibly, benefits everyone.

For every purchase not made, somebody else's livelihood suffers and this generates a relentless and accelerating downward economic spiral. It's what happened last year and the idiots who created the mess think it's all over now – whereas, in reality, for most Britons, the true grief has barely begun. Wait until after the General Election; 2010 is going to be the real start of the pain and poverty in the United Kingdom (and in its Dependencies which use the £).

Never forget that when the miners went on strike twenty years ago, the steel works closed down and it was the owners of corner shops who were bankrupted.

Worthy in some ways though money saving is, salvation, prosperity, security and a better way of life are achieved through money making and responsible wealth creation.

Too many money savers are directing their time and energy in the opposite direction to what would benefit both them and the world. If you take their philosophy to its ultimate conclusion, nobody would spend anything, trade on the planet would grind to a halt and everybody would find themselves back in the Stone Age.

That won't happen. The rest of the world will get itself back on its feet and Britain will be left side-lined by the major economies, a nation of increasingly impoverished, determined money savers with a negative attitude, falling ever behind in their effort to pay back the trillion and a half pounds that Gordon Brown put on the IMF credit card and left your grandchildren to pay off, with interest, in an increasingly worthless currency. They'll be the paupers of Europe – with no money at all to save.

Corny though it may sound, a money saving site is a worthy thing to have but a money making site offers more opportunity for people to better themselves and to avoid being evicted from their homes and being rendered destitute as a result of spending their lives concentrating on how to save a fiver instead of making one.

So, buy that 27" iMac that you want so much; buy it and use it to earn yourself enough money to buy a yacht.

It's a lot better for the world than sitting, money saving, on your devaluing pounds and leaving unemployed computer builders and yacht constructors living on state benefits which you will have to pay the taxes to provide.

Not sure if this guy would agree with you:

http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/green-living-blog/2009/oct/28/live-without-money

bluboy

Leopard wrote: »

But people keep ringing me up, asking my advice and sending me large sums of money.

Leopard,
I'd like to be sending you several thousand Nigerian Dollars.



Now if you could just be giving me your bank details....

espresso

Tiger Woods family Christmas card photo.

Leopard

bluboy,

:rotfl:

Love it. :money:

But where did you get that picture of me in my office?

I thought all those had been shredded. :cool:



espresso,

Nice one.

(Memo to self: Never upset a Swedish blonde who's holding a golf club.)



busenbust,

Probably just as well; console yourself with the fact that you'd probably find its horribly glossy screen too reflective to enjoy working with.

Forgive the philosophising.

Buy a burger, instead, and keep Ronald McDonald employed.

Better yet, keep Pamela Anderson employed.






asininity,

You keep the iPottie and he can keep the eCaravan: the iYacht would do me fine.

If you spend your time money saving instead of money making, a rusty caravan is what you'll end up in – sooner than you think.

asininity

I work to live not live to work. If I didn't like tinkering with technology and software I'd be happy to have no money. I have no ambition. I would be happy in a rusty caravan.

asininity

Leopard

asininity wrote: »

I work to live not live to work. If I didn't like tinkering with technology and software I'd be happy to have no money. I have no ambition. I would be happy in a rusty caravan.

Desirability check:

YACHT:

RUSTY CARAVAN:

Please confirm preference.

Leopard

asininity wrote: »

You seem to be a few planets short of a solar system. What happened to Saturn, Jupiter, Uranus and Neptune?

asininity

Leopard the less you desire the happier you are.