>>>> The insinuation, I guess, is that because it doesn't go very far, it isn't worth much?
Not at all. The point is in a high rent area, everything is more expensive. Simply put, $14 won't go very far. It doesn't mean that $14 is worthless.
>>>> You can probably afford to lose that and it doesn't really affect your life much, which is why you have such a skewed view on what is minimal or worthwhile and what isn't.
Whoa! Pump yo brakes there playah. First of all, you don't know me from a hole in the wall. You shouldn't start swinging wildly like that when you don't even know where I came from or where I've been. I have a crystal clear view on what's worthwhile, but at the same time, it's relative to your own life. I've been in a gutter, I know what its like to live on food stamps and have to bootstrap yourself to get somewhere in life. Nobody needs to tell me I don't know the value of money. I've been there, and I know.
>>>> Hybrid car? Okay, I get it, either this is a troll or you seriously just don't consider anyone other than yourself to matter, and thus this idea of saving money is nonimportant to you.
Quite the opposite actually. My whole point in the first place is there are better, less arduous ways of saving $56 a month than trying to find someone to trade a train ticket with every day for a full year. Hell, you could probably skip the $6 Starbucks every day for a few weeks and save that. You could bike to work two days out of five and save it in gas. You could start a side business and MAKE an additional $56 per month. That was my point to begin with. I'd rather be doing something that's enjoyable to save or earn that money instead of hounding some stranger to swap tickets with me so I can save some money.
> Hell, you could probably skip the $6 Starbucks every day for a few weeks and save that. You could bike to work two days out of five and save it in gas. You could start a side business and MAKE an additional $56 per month.
Aside from biking to work (which is sometimes feasible but sometimes not, such as with people with disabilities, the elderly, people who live far away, people who don't own a bike, people who don't have a shower at work, people who work long hours at manual-labor jobs and are constantly tired, and you know, all the other ways this might not work) I don't think those are options that most minimum-wage workers have. Buying Starbucks every morning is not something minimum-wage workers typically do. Being able to start a business is a privilege usually of the middle class, or businesses passed down through families, or require certain education or other resources, not to mention the barriers of being either non-white, non-male or not a native english speaker... Not to say it can't be done. But most minimum wage workers can't do these things.
There's a lot of people who don't have a better way to save money because they're already saving everything they can. This technique provides a new way to save.
Not at all. The point is in a high rent area, everything is more expensive. Simply put, $14 won't go very far. It doesn't mean that $14 is worthless.
>>>> You can probably afford to lose that and it doesn't really affect your life much, which is why you have such a skewed view on what is minimal or worthwhile and what isn't.
Whoa! Pump yo brakes there playah. First of all, you don't know me from a hole in the wall. You shouldn't start swinging wildly like that when you don't even know where I came from or where I've been. I have a crystal clear view on what's worthwhile, but at the same time, it's relative to your own life. I've been in a gutter, I know what its like to live on food stamps and have to bootstrap yourself to get somewhere in life. Nobody needs to tell me I don't know the value of money. I've been there, and I know.
>>>> Hybrid car? Okay, I get it, either this is a troll or you seriously just don't consider anyone other than yourself to matter, and thus this idea of saving money is nonimportant to you.
Quite the opposite actually. My whole point in the first place is there are better, less arduous ways of saving $56 a month than trying to find someone to trade a train ticket with every day for a full year. Hell, you could probably skip the $6 Starbucks every day for a few weeks and save that. You could bike to work two days out of five and save it in gas. You could start a side business and MAKE an additional $56 per month. That was my point to begin with. I'd rather be doing something that's enjoyable to save or earn that money instead of hounding some stranger to swap tickets with me so I can save some money.
Does that make sense??