Almost all articles which show the breakdown of a household’s income and expenses are designed to be ragebait. This is not accidental. When you share one with “Can you believe this?”, an editor smiles and says Mission Accomplished.
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(Though I think it’s allllmost impossible to write a household budget that would not be ragebait, given that people equally passionately hold values which are impossible to simultaneously satisfy at any typical level of income, and atypical levels are themselves rage inducing.)
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e.g. it is impossibly to simultaneously please a Optimize For Children’s Education and Optimize For Retirement partisan in the same budget; each views the other’s main expense as one step above raw vice.
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the one in question is from someone who makes good financial decisions, but people will rage at anything and everything.
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survivor bias
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How does the
@dril candles tweet factor in to all of this? Anti rage bait meta humor?Thanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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