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When I was growing up in the 1980s, I saw what credit card debts, and home equity loans could do by observing my parent's life. It is ruinous. When I started my life, I said to myself I will do my best to pay off all my debts. After I graduated from university, I saved as much as I could pay that off. I did the same after I got a mortgage, and got that paid off in about decade.
Today, I don't have any debts, but I still have to pay car insurance, property tax, homeowners insurance, utilities, health insurance, and other bills. My income today is less than 50k/year, because I am just working part time, but I can pretty much do what I want, like go on trips, and buy what I need and want.
I think the problem what most people in the US has is a high level of debt, and that is what is dragging down most people. It is much more difficult to buy a home today compared to the 1990s when I bought my home.
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I will tell you the situation in the US, because I live here. A lot of people that worked very good jobs had lost their jobs in the past 2 years; however, there are a lot of low paying jobs. If you are a regular person, you could take one of these jobs, like working as a ride share driver, delivery man, working at a restaurant, working at a warehouse, painting houses, working as a construction worker, etc. The problem is finding a decent place to live, because the cost of living is very expensive. It is very common thing these days for 3 people to share a studio or a one bedroom apartment.
If you don't have much skills or education, your standard of living will be very low. You will be working more than 70 hours a week, and you will be living in a small room. Even though wages are lower in China, basic things are cheaper in China, like food, rent, utilities, etc. You are better off living in China in my opinion.
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This looks interesting. I remember back in the 1980s, we had so many different platforms, like BBC Micro, Commodore 64, Spectrum ZX, Apple ProDOS, Apple Mac OS, MSX, Amtrad CPC, Commodore Amiga, MS-DOS, Fujitsu FM-7, Sharp X68000, etc. None of these were compatible with each other. We need more players, because the PC industry had been stagnant for years.
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As for SBCs, I transitioned to the Orange Pi, and Banana Pi platforms. I turn them into remote control cars, drones, NAS servers, retro gaming machines, and as microcontrollers. I did successfully turn a Orange Pi 4 into a mini PC, it could stream videos, browse the internet, online shopping, email, word processing, retro gaming, streaming video, etc.
As for emulation, I use a SFF computer hooked up to my television. SFF computers has more power than any SBC, so it is the best choice for retro gaming up to a Nintendo GameCube.
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