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Citizen Satirist (CS)'s avatar

This is typical of high income educated people - although the Mercedes could have been leased... I remember reading this years ago - a real eye opener and the writer learned absolutely NOTHING from what happened:

This is what happened when I drove my Mercedes to pick up food stamps

https://www.washingtonpost.com/posteverything/wp/2014/07/08/this-is-what-happened-when-i-drove-my-mercedes-to-pick-up-food-stamps/

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ViaVeritasVita's avatar

Wow. And no sense of the future, so while the going was good they didn’t prepare for future “not good” times.

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