quiddities and agonies of the ruling class - a rolling new york times thread

"the black turbocharged Volvo...with a remote starter!" is really where the lols began to set in, imo

u can travel all u want as long as u buy carbon offsets

how much are asshole offsets

and just in case you missed it the firt time, once more with feeling: I’m lucky, obviously; not everyone gets a windfall from a tech start-up sale.

"show of hands: who here has an internet windfall"

You should figure out how to stop living in a house, and instead jet around the world with your girlfriend, selling companies from your laptop. It's pretty sweet.

I gave an old lute I haven't played in years to a friend. This is fun. Now I'm almost done, and it is really true that less is more.

pshh, she'd never see u if u had no lute.

step 1: find beautiful lady
step 2: ?
step 3: success + tiny house

loooooooool hunt3r

Members of every socioeconomic bracket can and do deluge themselves with products.

not sure you totally understand socioeconomics :(

HALP I AM DROWNING IN LUTES

http://i.imgur.com/92KbgfX.jpg

so minimalist i even sold all my colors

A compulsive entrepreneur, I worked all the time and started new companies from an office that fit in my solar backpack.

my solar backpack.

my solar backpack.

finally i told olga, i don't need the burden of a girl all the time, it's more efficient to rent one when i really need one. do svidaniya.

this guy had it all and he gave it up to live in a hip loft

now its just me and my fleshlight under this bridge starting companies

my solar fleshlight

bragging about not having any CDs comes across pretty weird to anyone under 30

bragging about solar backpacks comes across as loool

I realized I needed to downsize my life

I got rid of my 8-track player, all of my laserdisks, 10,000 floppy disks

I realized that my floppy disks weren't even making me happy anymore

his girlfriend was all 'ugh and he wears a solar backpack' to her friends behind his back

"I remember when you used to drive a turbocharged Volvo"

I bet his fold-out tables and beds cost more than all the furniture in my house.

"I remember when you used to drive a turbocharged Volvo"

― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Monday, March 11, 2013 7:36 PM Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

now he's stuck with a solar-powered vulva

its funny how he keeps getting these big places and then filling them w roommates cause they seem too big, maybe you just dont like roommates bruh

he makes it sound like he bought them and had them installed

irl lol @ hurting

omg

http://www.jubbling.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/03/seinfeld-kramer-dresser-bed-japanese-businessmen.jpg

http://i.imgur.com/4ak9UAp.jpg

if i were rich id just go ahead and get whatever size dwelling i felt like i needed so that the furniture didnt have to fold up cause that just seems like a hassle

maybe he kept Seven around to fold up his furniture

then you need a closet to store seven then youve got to get some roommates the headaches never end

put on yr solar backpack and just peace out

http://i.imgur.com/PIaAoXh.jpg

workin on my tan startin some businesses

if i were rich id just go ahead and get whatever size dwelling i felt like i needed so that the furniture didnt have to fold up cause that just seems like a hassle

― lag∞n, Monday, March 11, 2013 7:55 PM Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

ain't nobody got time for that

i don't need a bed, i just go to bed hugging a tree koala style.

nice article about how great things were with your ex and how inspirational your life is, man

I predict a rebound spending binge any day now

lol that this thread still isn't locked in favor of the other thread

^^ that's a quiddity

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424127887324081704578237651740623228.html

Carl McCoy: Dear Grads, Don't 'Do What You Love'
College commencement speakers who routinely urge young people to follow their passions may not be doing them a favor.

Challopsy hook, but pretty OTM.

Yup, OTM. One of the defining moments of my life was when I was around age 25 or 26, and my grandmother's husband had a talk with me, in which he said "I'm concerned that, like a lot of people of your generation, you might still be fantasizing that you're going to just happen onto the perfect career that suits your passion" or somethign along those lines. Gentle but firm, sort of snapped me out of my aimlessness.

Yeh, I could have used that kind of perspective for a long time. I had to figure it out for myself. Starting in around 11th grade teachers, advisors, and other well-meaning grown-ups urged me to pursue my "passion," but I've never had a passion, but rather broad curiosity and adaptability to usually be interested in whatever I had to work on.

I was good at writing, so teachers and professors encouraged me to be a writer, but as satisfying as writing can be, I didn't feel driven or "passionate" to make it my life. I wish I had seen earlier that I didn't have to feel passionate about writing in order to do it as a job or part of a job. So I searched for a "passion" and despaired for lack of one.

It would have been really good for me to follow one of the many options I tested and rejected (counseling, vet medicine, photography/photo lab, floral design) because I didn't feel "passion" for them, even though I was pretty happy at the jobs.

let's not overlook the fact that it's easier to make this statement as long as money is a factor and that most famous artistic people come from rich families who can support them financially and within their industry until they succeed, hence the quiddy
nobody tells jaden smith not to do what he loves

in order to do what you love it's important to know what you do and also what you love

Look at ROI.