chapotraphouse

Yeah those savings will be wiped out by health problems from working two full-time jobs and only getting 3 hours of sleep.

That sounds like a great way to get burnt out and physically ill for years, perhaps irreversibly so.

I know because I'm recovering from a similar situation.

That person is gonna end up hospitalized and then those "savings" ain't gonna mean shit

Halfway to halfway to a downpayment,

If they are a millennial, that means this person is easily into their late 20's and early 30's.

Also, no way that is sustainable long-term.

This is extremely unhealthy and should not be praised. Absolute ghoul shit.

Political economy, this science of wealth, is therefore simultaneously the science of renunciation, of want, of saving and it actually reaches the point where it spares man the need of either fresh air or physical exercise. This science of marvellous industry is simultaneously the science of asceticism, and its true ideal is the ascetic but extortionate miser and the ascetic but productive slave. Its moral ideal is the worker who takes part of his wages to the savings-bank, and it has even found ready-made a servile art which embodies this pet idea: it has been presented, bathed in sentimentality, on the stage. Thus political economy – despite its worldly and voluptuous appearance – is a true moral science, the most moral of all the sciences. Self-renunciation, the renunciation of life and of all human needs, is its principal thesis. The less you eat, drink and buy books; the less you go to the theatre, the dance hall, the public house; the less you think, love, theorise, sing, paint, fence, etc., the more you save – the greater becomes your treasure which neither moths nor rust will devour – your capital. The less you are, the less you express your own life, the more you have, i.e., the greater is your alienated life, the greater is the store of your estranged being. Everything which the political economist takes from you in life and in humanity, he replaces for you in money and in wealth; and all the things which you cannot do, your money can do. It can eat and, drink, go to the dance hall and the theatre; it can travel, it can appropriate art, learning, the treasures of the past, political power – all this it can appropriate for you – it can buy all this: it is true endowment. Yet being all this, it wants to do nothing but create itself, buy itself; for everything else is after all its servant, and when I have the master I have the servant and do not need his servant. All passions and all activity must therefore be submerged in avarice.

from https://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1844/manuscripts/needs.htm

I love how the title is said as if you should be impressed at almost saving 50k with two full time jobs. That like getting paid $12 an hour at both jobs it’s basically not even worth it

Local millennial excludes ultimate fiscal responsibility by planning to die for retirement decades in advance.

I realized the ultimate cost-cutting measure was to cut myself. Only with zero needs could I be truly independent.

Ah yes thank you soothsayers and priesthood of capital for telling us everything is okay and we are just slothful wretches for not working ourselves to an early brain aneurysm

that is so heckin poggers, 100k ez

What a go-getter! If she keeps this up she might be able to afford the down payment on a studio apartment by the time she's 50.

Fuck the ghouls who did this to people, who made this world possible.

Nah I'm good, I think I'll sleep. zzz

So they've done this and saved like 50k, over how long a period of time?

Yessss! Collect more of the money that keeps you in our system.. work for us and buy the house from us, all using good old money!