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Wow. In 84 it cost about a dollar per minute to talk on a cell phone. That’s when minimum wage was $3.35 an hour. So you’d have to work for 20 minutes to afford one minute of talk time if you were a minimum wage worker.

Yes, but when you do, they arrest you for illegal activity. So not reporting is the only real viable option. You can launder it, but they’ll still get you for tax evasion if they can

Crazy is pretty great in the sack.

Back in my early twenties I invented the martingale strategy, thinking that I had finally figured out a way to beat the house. I was pretty stoked. Then I talked to my manager about it and he let me know that it was a strategy which has already been proven to fail and has been heavily researched mathematically. Like you said, it’s pretty much impossible to come up with an original thought these days

Being a drunk is great fun. For a time. Then it stops working, and you’re left with the original problems, plus a bunch of additional misery.

They’re saying that you can and should make everything you do a fun experience. Don’t like your boring machinist job? Make a game out of measuring everything. Beat your high score for the tightest tolerance.

Don’t like pulling weeds for extra money while you’re in college? Pretend you’re a homesteader cultivating the land.

Your attitude and your perception of how things are can greatly influence how you experience things.

Nice

Eh, Steve Jobs didn’t steal his product. Steve Wozniak created it, and Jobs marketed it. Jobs bought the mouse technology from Xerox, who didn’t understand the value of what they had. Jobs pushed for quality on-screen typography, and pioneered the windows based interface. I think you might be thinking of Bill Gates, who stole the Windows interface from Jobs. Apple was a truly pioneering company, which is why so many investors were interested in this company run by a few college kids out of their garage.

Al Capone had no choice but to commit tax evasion, all of his income was illegal.

Don’t put your dick in crazy

No, drugs only solve problems temporarily, very temporarily, and then they bring a bunch of additional problems into your life.

That’s true. I started at the ripe old age of 12, and I haven’t stopped since.

pay yourself first

Did you get this from The Richest Man in Babylon? I just quoted another part of that book for this thread. That’s one of the core lessons of that book.

The asshole’s philosophy

That’s damned good advice about building a good home, environment, and life for yourself.

There are so many laws that it’s impossible not to break multiple at once if breaking a big one. Like planning and executing a heist requires you to break a hundred different laws.

It’s both really. Knowing people when you know nothing doesn’t do much for ya. But when you’re known as a skilled person by people with opportunities, then that’s a good position to be in.

Yes, none of those are original, but they’re all good advice.

That which you consider to be your necessary expenditures will always rise to meet your income unless you protest to the contrary.

–The Richest Man In Babylon

Ah yeah that TV definitely didn’t have that option. My CRT computer monitor did though