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![[0094] Wealth And What To Do With It](/comics/2009-09-14-[0094]-wealth-and-what-to-do-with-it.png "[0094] Wealth And What To Do With It")
The current story arc started with this strip: Bribe Money.
- Cloud: Wow, time seems to have stopped here 50 years ago. How do your grandparents get by?
- Sandra: Well, they sell a lot to first-class restaurants…
- Sandra: … but the farm and everything is rather a hobby for them. My great-great-grandfather made a fortune during the 20s on the New York Stock Exchange.
- Cloud: I guess only the rich can afford to be poor.
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My grandparents were tobacco farms who now live well below the means that they could afford so this one sorta hits home with me on that front.
Well, the rich ain’t so trich anymore. Thing is, they’re going below the 6th figure
if I was rich and would still get a steady income no matter what I would definitely buy a farm
Honestly, I’d rather be a Poor Farmer then Rich Bureaucrat, I don’t really know why. But it’s interesting to see what Sandra said. The 20s were right before the Crash, and Depression hit in and all that jazz (quite literally) happened. So to hear that someone prospered either before, or during, that time is quite interesting.
There were a small number of folks who didn’t bother investing heavily in stock or fluff during the roaring 20’s, and still had money after the crash. Many then invested heavily /after/ the crash, and were able to pick up previously-overinflated stock or property for a song and a tapdance. When the economy recovered during the stimulus years and then World War II, they in turn did /very/ well for themselves.
The irony in that last panel is killing me
“I guess only the rich can afford to be poor.”
Now that’s a quote I’m going to remember. Very nice.
Technicaly the farm i live on is classified as a “hobby farm”.
Funny and true! 🙂
The semi-paradox is much appreciated.
Language nitpick: Since it’s short for “1920s,” we’re supposed to put an apostrophe before “20s.”
Yes, food grown without any funky chemicals or genetic modifications is rich people’s food.
Greeeeeen Acres is the place for me…
Really really hits home for me. I just found out I would have to make twice my current salary in order to minimally qualify for a low income assisted housing loan. And I’ve worked for the city for over 5 years now…
Hehehe, money jokes.
Heh, it’s quite true! Most of what we think of as how peasants live is now quite unavailable to actual poor people. They’ve been relegated to the inner city haven’t they.
Now if this is some kind of anti-rich message about how the rich get unfairly good treatment, i’ve just got to point out that the rich get screwed and the poor get babied.. and the middle class have to pay for it. But I’m sure it’s nothing like that 🙂
Reminds me of an old joke. A farmer won the lottery, and was asked what he was going to do with the windfall. His reply was he guessed he’d just keep farming till it was all gone.
Wow.. deep; that quote is amazing.
It’s sort of like having to prove you don’t need money before you can get as loan.
(Aside from toxic mortgages, anyway.)
I agree with cloud.
there is a true statement if I ever heard one!
That last frame reminds me of an alarming quote about how one needs to retire a millionaire…and just buy cat food and nothing else in order to survive for the rest of their natural life.
I can kinda relate to this comic strip. My grandparents, who both are farmers and own a farm in Texas, suffered badly during the depression. My great-grandparents had to sell a lot of their stuff to make ends’ meet. Luckily, it ended in time before they had to sell their farm, completely. What’s ironic, is that despite how rich people tend to act towards my grandparents, they bear them no ill will. Because truthfully, they feel sorry for the rich.
Reason being? Because my grandparents are smart. They know that even though the rich, have all that money, they won’t ever truly be happy, because they will never understand what life is really about. And if they are happy, then more power to them.
Those who produce the food we buy are often the first to go hungry. Figure that one out.
now those are a few people i can respect..unlike alot of fancy boots millionaires i cant stand….but hey enough about MY views, Great comic still
Voluntary simplicity. You hear stories every now and then about people living a simple and quiet life, forgoing luxuries and even what most might consider necessities, like in certain monastic orders, even though they were rich.
Cloud’s comment is pertinent, as critics of voluntary simplicity allege that only the rich or the well-off can voluntarily afford to cut back, poor people don’t have a choice.
Have you read any Discworld? Because that’s very similar to the Samuel Vimes “Boots” theory of socioeconomic unfairness.
Kinda like the somewhat different phrase: “Only the strong can afford to be kind.”
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Given that the world is heading for an overpopulation crisis, and food is getting to be a significant restricting factor already, you’d think governments would be a bit more supportive of the folk who make the food… but no such luck.
When the starvation starts hitting the first world big-time, it won’t be because enough food couldn’t be made… but because the governments and corporate big-wigs choked off those who made it.
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Fun fact: My mother supported the family by busking in shopping centres when I was a kid. We were, for all intents and purposes, glorified beggars. Becoming a poultry farmer was actually a step UP for her. O’Course I’m now the richest member of the family because I went to university and got an office job. Go me.
Read the ChesterBelloc Mandate.
Yay. Money jokes. And I still cant get over that. BROWN HAIR!
You know, this reminds me of my own views. If I ever struck it rich or became famous or something, I don’t want freaking limousines and great big fancy houses. I don’t want to eat out at fancy, overpriced restaurants every night. I would just be content living in average or maybe just above average conditions. A lot of it might disappear rather quickly at first honestly, because I have a long backlog of things I want which would cost a pretty penny when added up (mainly old things I missed out on when they were new) but once I have those things I’d be set. 😛 But hey, what’s a couple thousand dollars towards being content for the next dozen or so years of your life if not more?
NotDebonair wrote:
And yet we’ve been genetically engineering food for well over a thousand years with selective breeding. The result hasn’t changed, but the tools have.
What I want to know is… Who was the first human that looked at a cow and said, “I think that I’ll drink whatever comes out of those things when I squeeze them?”
So, nobody realised that Sandra herself was joked to have caused the recent economic crisis earlier in the comic, and it was a self referential joke.