Comments by "Matthew Nirenberg" (@matthewnirenberg) on "\"Geoff, have a little bit more BALANCE!\" (Reading Letters in Benidorm Episode 1)" video.
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@LoremIpsum1970 Literally everyone can travel, save and have private property, to say otherwise is an outright lie.
Lets break it down:
* Travel - whether within the country or overseas, one can afford to travel and have a good holiday for under $5000 - just don't expect to stay in five star accommodation and don't expect to eat at the fancy places; maybe go camping and enjoy life. Also, don't travel all the time, a holiday is a once a year thing - always has been, always will be.
*Saving - Currently everyone can save money. How many people buy multiple coffee's every day? Each coffee is $6. If you have coffee at home (i.e. Nespresso Original Line Pod machine and pods) that's only $0.45 per pod plus water and power. That's a saving of $5.50 per coffee right there, $5 if we allow $0.50 for water and power per pod.
Further, if you have access to boiling water at work (or if you have a Jetboil (or knock-off such as the OEX)), you can have the same pod coffee by owning and using a Minipresso NS (made by Wacaco).
You're currently permitted to have a bank account and save money to any amount you can manage. In the near future that will be capped at 20k GBP in the UK and $80k in the rest of the world (according to the BIS). That means zero saving and zero ability to ever do anything. To put those limits into understandable terms, that $80k is literally one new car (after taxes and registration) in Australia or New Zealand - its damn near nothing.
Part of saving is securing the buying power of your money - buying a pure silver bullion coin or round each week or month will secure that value - the markets only go up and in the long-term you won't lose out. If things go bad a few years later, that bit of silver can be sold and the money used to survive.
Another part of saving is stocking up before prices climb even higher. Everything will always cost more tomorrow - things you can currently afford that are shelf-stable and that you will use are worth stocking up on as they'll only cost more (or shrink in size) in the future.
* Private property - Everyone has private property, whether its land, a house or simply possessions, the things you own are all private property. In the near future you won't be allowed to own anything - not even your clothes!
If you think the most basic tenants of life aren't worth worrying about, then you will perish at the hands of the WEF and will contribute to their success. In the future without being able to travel (sometimes to buy things you need), save money or own private property, you'll be 100% at the mercy of the system and will have to go without everything as they will dictate what and how much you can buy and use.
You honestly sound like a typical "victim mentality" person who thinks that anyone with more than you has "privilege" or is "affluent", whilst telling yourself that "you don't have the means to do those things" when in reality you do have the means - you just don't believe yourself or won't put in the hard work to succeed.
Before anyone tries to say I'm talking BS and that its not possible, know this - I started with nothing and worked for everything I have, saving as much as possible. Its highly disturbing that most people have no money these days because they refuse to do the hard work to become successful and to have savings.
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