>No amount of commenters screaming “YEAH BUT YOURE A SOFTWARE ENGINEER YOU CAN BUY EGGS” will make me buy eggs again until I view the cost as fair for my budget.
Again, you can afford it easily. You chose a bad example. Eggs are still practically the cheapest source of protein, besides beans. Are you trying to seriously make us think you're reduced to eating beans every day as a software engineer?
The reason I'm pushing you on this issue is that quite a few very well-off people seem to be trying to jump on the "woe is me" bandwagon. You are not poor and probably won't be any time soon. You may not be able to afford the lifestyle you want, but pretending to be poorer than you are because you think it's cool or something is asinine.
>I never stated eggs as the reason I would stop paying my student loans. In fact the list is much longer than the single item of eggs.
Yeah, I know. But throwing eggs in there and expecting us to take it seriously is kind of crazy. You probably can afford most of the things on the list, or will be able to in the future.
>The trend will go, if everyone stops paying their loans to prioritize other costs than that is what the “market” wants to be unburdened from student loans.
If these people in on the "trend" like over-entitled software engineers actually make money, it will be taken directly out of their paychecks. Unless you think quitting your job and living under a bridge is preferable to repaying what you promised to pay, and profitted from, you are going to stay in the system.
>I also didn’t get ANY money for free. That money went to the university charging overpriced tuition. I wasn’t spending it on overpriced eggs. It has nothing to do with free-money and everything to do with using money to burden people and calling it “education”.
It is free if you don't repay it. You want it free if you seek to not repay it. You chose to borrow for tuition, and that investment did in fact pay off for you. Stop whining about the economy that affects everyone, and pay what you owe.
Again no I can’t afford eggs. I eat other things besides eggs. I’ve chosen to stop buying eggs so I can afford other proteins.
It’s a perfectly good example you’re just trying to find a way to dunk on me about eggs. I’m not talking about just eggs though, I’m talking about groceries in general.
It's not me who is rewriting your commentary, it's you. It's not my fault that you wrote something that is just unbelievable.
Also, in the context of groceries in general, I don't believe you are starving or incapable of buying enough food on the salary of a software engineer. I think you make enough money to live on a 100% egg diet, even at the price of $10 per dozen. But let's just leave it at that. This whole discussion is going nowhere.
Again, you can afford it easily. You chose a bad example. Eggs are still practically the cheapest source of protein, besides beans. Are you trying to seriously make us think you're reduced to eating beans every day as a software engineer?
The reason I'm pushing you on this issue is that quite a few very well-off people seem to be trying to jump on the "woe is me" bandwagon. You are not poor and probably won't be any time soon. You may not be able to afford the lifestyle you want, but pretending to be poorer than you are because you think it's cool or something is asinine.
>I never stated eggs as the reason I would stop paying my student loans. In fact the list is much longer than the single item of eggs.
Yeah, I know. But throwing eggs in there and expecting us to take it seriously is kind of crazy. You probably can afford most of the things on the list, or will be able to in the future.
>The trend will go, if everyone stops paying their loans to prioritize other costs than that is what the “market” wants to be unburdened from student loans.
If these people in on the "trend" like over-entitled software engineers actually make money, it will be taken directly out of their paychecks. Unless you think quitting your job and living under a bridge is preferable to repaying what you promised to pay, and profitted from, you are going to stay in the system.
>I also didn’t get ANY money for free. That money went to the university charging overpriced tuition. I wasn’t spending it on overpriced eggs. It has nothing to do with free-money and everything to do with using money to burden people and calling it “education”.
It is free if you don't repay it. You want it free if you seek to not repay it. You chose to borrow for tuition, and that investment did in fact pay off for you. Stop whining about the economy that affects everyone, and pay what you owe.