If your earnings goal is $1,000 a day, the cost of that printer is less than 20 minutes of your time. Oh, but it’s not the best? Precisely how long will it take you to earn the best? Dial the calendar back to any date in the past and compute the labor necessary to obtain an equivalent value. You’re so in love with your misery that you can’t take time to swim in the oceans of Splendor all around you…
I always have a smile on my face when I read your posts about how good things are right now in this moment. It strikes me as odd how “everyone” thinks that things are terrible and that everything is awful. Yes, there are a lot of challenges in our world today that is very true. Yet, the things that are amazing we simply take for granted. A printer that will allow an agent to print up a listing or purchase contract for 29 bucks? You could afford to buy a new one with each closing! I don’t know why we all piss and moan so much. Instead we should be grateful were alive in this amazing time of progress.
> Instead we should be grateful were alive in this amazing time of progress.
Do you want an instant measure of how rich you are, compared to 90% of the people alive today, and compared to 99.9% of all the people who have ever lived?
Go to the fridge and pop an ice cube in your mouth.
The resale value of that ice cube is less than a nickel, perhaps less than a penny. But the wealth it represents is incomprehensible to anyone who wasn’t born this rich.
Hah, that’s great. I don’t remember a time where I’ve actually needed a printer for anything but printing out concert and sporting event tickets in the past 5 years. But, for $30 that’s a pretty good deal. Hopefully it’s not one of those deals where the drivers are obsolete in 60 days. LOL
What are you doing in Walmart? They treat their workers horrible and most are on AHCCCS. I haven’t been in a Walmart in over a decade. I won’t step foot in their stores until they pay their workers decent and actually provide health care.
Greg Swann says:
If your earnings goal is $1,000 a day, the cost of that printer is less than 20 minutes of your time. Oh, but it’s not the best? Precisely how long will it take you to earn the best? Dial the calendar back to any date in the past and compute the labor necessary to obtain an equivalent value. You’re so in love with your misery that you can’t take time to swim in the oceans of Splendor all around you…
August 16, 2011 — 6:37 pm
Scott Cowan says:
Greg,
I always have a smile on my face when I read your posts about how good things are right now in this moment. It strikes me as odd how “everyone” thinks that things are terrible and that everything is awful. Yes, there are a lot of challenges in our world today that is very true. Yet, the things that are amazing we simply take for granted. A printer that will allow an agent to print up a listing or purchase contract for 29 bucks? You could afford to buy a new one with each closing! I don’t know why we all piss and moan so much. Instead we should be grateful were alive in this amazing time of progress.
August 17, 2011 — 9:32 am
Greg Swann says:
> Instead we should be grateful were alive in this amazing time of progress.
Do you want an instant measure of how rich you are, compared to 90% of the people alive today, and compared to 99.9% of all the people who have ever lived?
Go to the fridge and pop an ice cube in your mouth.
The resale value of that ice cube is less than a nickel, perhaps less than a penny. But the wealth it represents is incomprehensible to anyone who wasn’t born this rich.
August 17, 2011 — 3:45 pm
Wayne says:
True that Greg! We all live so well and grumble along the way. Thanks for reminding us!!
August 19, 2011 — 11:48 am
Robert Worthington says:
Now that’s a low price.
August 20, 2011 — 8:17 pm
Vin says:
Hah, that’s great. I don’t remember a time where I’ve actually needed a printer for anything but printing out concert and sporting event tickets in the past 5 years. But, for $30 that’s a pretty good deal. Hopefully it’s not one of those deals where the drivers are obsolete in 60 days. LOL
August 23, 2011 — 8:34 am
Carmen Brodeur says:
What are you doing in Walmart? They treat their workers horrible and most are on AHCCCS. I haven’t been in a Walmart in over a decade. I won’t step foot in their stores until they pay their workers decent and actually provide health care.
August 23, 2011 — 3:40 pm
Greg Swann says:
> What are you doing in Walmart?
I love Walmart, as do its employees and its other customers.
August 23, 2011 — 4:36 pm
Cameron Keegan says:
They just know you’ll spend a fortune in ink cartridges over the years. Still amazing though, since I remember when an HP Bubble Jet was about $3,000!
August 24, 2011 — 3:18 pm