Forced to rent ebooks lol. As someone who went to college. You pay $100 for a book and sell it back for $10. That con was long Around before ebooks and ask yourself what worthless degree your paying for? When your son can get a trade without books and make the same if not more money. Grow your own food. Stop buying shit that you don’t need. Time and money manage. Yes they manipulate you but whose weaker those who get manipulated or those who are smart enough to see the bs without reading an article and realize they don’t need all this shit?it’s not the manufacturers fault per say it’s the weak minded individual. Now I do resent the fact that you need a damn computer and they force you to buy a new one every decade. ESP if you own a business. There really is no work around of that. And it’s bs they are trying to force smart phone if you need to fly now. What people don’t realize is if you say you don’t have a smart phone and go to the counter they have to check you in manually. This is just one more way for them
To eliminate jobs and make more money. But people en masse need to start rejecting this shit.
Of course it is old fashioned to teach children to save a bit every month. When I was little 60 years ago, we learned how to save a few cents every month, and once the habit settled, I got half a dollar a week, of which now and then I would take some to buy a record. But most went in my savings account. We never went out to eat. When I was 18 I had been to the cinema maybe 10 times. We had been on 2 trips to France. People have no clue anymore how to be careful with their money. I know plenty who go out to eat 3 times a day, 7 times a week, with 2 and 3 children. No surprise there, that there is nothing left but a hole at the end of the month.
If you don't know about it, Ian Curtis' exposé of Eddie Bernays is classic. It validates everything you've said here but goes into the the post World War One reasoning behind American Capitalism.
Eddy was brilliant. He told the corporate fat cats: You've been selling people what they need. With me as your propaganda guru, well sell them desire.
Desire is limitless. Need is not.
Brilliant, as most American psyops are, but wicked. Not fun wicked. Wicked as in evil.
Make garage sales great again. We didn't waste money on many new things because we could find used, and, if needed, refurbish them. We ended out being able to treat our children to a few nice experiences such as travel instead of furniture etc. The experiences are cherished memories.
I grew up in the 60s and 70s (born in 62) and the changes I've seen can't even be imagined. For the sake of this discussion, I will mention that I remember ridiculing my mother for sitting on the kitchen floor and clipping coupons for 10 cents off of this and 25 cents off of that. She had stacks of coupons which if they were each worth a dollar, we could have bought a brand new car, (6000 dollars back then). Both my parents were misers, more than careful with their money. My dad made an upper middle-class salary as a professor at the U of Pitt but by his frugal way of life managed to build up a 5 million dollar portfolio over the years. I'm not laughing anymore thinking about my mom clipping those coupons! My dad is 93 years old and my mom is gone now. I must add that we didn't suffer for their prudent ways, we had a nice big house with central air (no longer a luxury but a necessity) and we all had everything we ever wanted (except I always wanted a minibike but both parents were dead set against it). My brother and I never went without anything but now, in my 64th year, my dad transferred some of his wealth to me and I'm happily retired.
The $100 to $250 "leasing" of textbooks needed for coursework is the most outrageous scam I've heard of. You'd think if the material in the book were that proprietary and specialized that you'd want to keep it around to solve real world challenges that might arise once working in the field.
I will have to ask my older daughter if they force her to "lease" textbooks. She just finished her Associates degree in Psychology-Early Childhood Development in Michigan and is working with developmentally disabled children as a teacher. I'm hoping to hustle enough on deliveries in the States to get her ASU online four year debt free and paid for. Unfortunately it pushes her back to staying with an accredited American teaching program in the States fr another two years.
Forced to rent ebooks lol. As someone who went to college. You pay $100 for a book and sell it back for $10. That con was long Around before ebooks and ask yourself what worthless degree your paying for? When your son can get a trade without books and make the same if not more money. Grow your own food. Stop buying shit that you don’t need. Time and money manage. Yes they manipulate you but whose weaker those who get manipulated or those who are smart enough to see the bs without reading an article and realize they don’t need all this shit?it’s not the manufacturers fault per say it’s the weak minded individual. Now I do resent the fact that you need a damn computer and they force you to buy a new one every decade. ESP if you own a business. There really is no work around of that. And it’s bs they are trying to force smart phone if you need to fly now. What people don’t realize is if you say you don’t have a smart phone and go to the counter they have to check you in manually. This is just one more way for them
To eliminate jobs and make more money. But people en masse need to start rejecting this shit.
Of course it is old fashioned to teach children to save a bit every month. When I was little 60 years ago, we learned how to save a few cents every month, and once the habit settled, I got half a dollar a week, of which now and then I would take some to buy a record. But most went in my savings account. We never went out to eat. When I was 18 I had been to the cinema maybe 10 times. We had been on 2 trips to France. People have no clue anymore how to be careful with their money. I know plenty who go out to eat 3 times a day, 7 times a week, with 2 and 3 children. No surprise there, that there is nothing left but a hole at the end of the month.
Must see:
The Century of the Self • Ian Curtis • BBC documentary on Eddie Bernays
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GFwDc17WZ-A
If you don't know about it, Ian Curtis' exposé of Eddie Bernays is classic. It validates everything you've said here but goes into the the post World War One reasoning behind American Capitalism.
Eddy was brilliant. He told the corporate fat cats: You've been selling people what they need. With me as your propaganda guru, well sell them desire.
Desire is limitless. Need is not.
Brilliant, as most American psyops are, but wicked. Not fun wicked. Wicked as in evil.
You're speaking my language.
Make garage sales great again. We didn't waste money on many new things because we could find used, and, if needed, refurbish them. We ended out being able to treat our children to a few nice experiences such as travel instead of furniture etc. The experiences are cherished memories.
I grew up in the 60s and 70s (born in 62) and the changes I've seen can't even be imagined. For the sake of this discussion, I will mention that I remember ridiculing my mother for sitting on the kitchen floor and clipping coupons for 10 cents off of this and 25 cents off of that. She had stacks of coupons which if they were each worth a dollar, we could have bought a brand new car, (6000 dollars back then). Both my parents were misers, more than careful with their money. My dad made an upper middle-class salary as a professor at the U of Pitt but by his frugal way of life managed to build up a 5 million dollar portfolio over the years. I'm not laughing anymore thinking about my mom clipping those coupons! My dad is 93 years old and my mom is gone now. I must add that we didn't suffer for their prudent ways, we had a nice big house with central air (no longer a luxury but a necessity) and we all had everything we ever wanted (except I always wanted a minibike but both parents were dead set against it). My brother and I never went without anything but now, in my 64th year, my dad transferred some of his wealth to me and I'm happily retired.
The $100 to $250 "leasing" of textbooks needed for coursework is the most outrageous scam I've heard of. You'd think if the material in the book were that proprietary and specialized that you'd want to keep it around to solve real world challenges that might arise once working in the field.
I will have to ask my older daughter if they force her to "lease" textbooks. She just finished her Associates degree in Psychology-Early Childhood Development in Michigan and is working with developmentally disabled children as a teacher. I'm hoping to hustle enough on deliveries in the States to get her ASU online four year debt free and paid for. Unfortunately it pushes her back to staying with an accredited American teaching program in the States fr another two years.
Still debt free is already paying dividends...