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Around the Internet => Antimustachian Wall of Shame and Comedy => Topic started by: Ricky on April 05, 2015, 09:41:50 AM
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Lyrics from a recent mainstream hip hop song:
"I knew my rent was gon' be late about a week ago
I worked my ass off, but I still can't pay it though
But I just got just enough
To get up in this club
Have me a good time, before my time is up
Hey, let's get it now
Ooh I want the time of my life
Oh baby
Ooh give me the time of my life
Let's get it now
This is the last $20 I got
But I'mma have a good time ballin' or out
Tell the bartender line up some shots
Cause I'mma get loose tonight"
The sad thing is, so many people think like this. This example might be more "mainstream" than strictly hip hop itself but since Pitbull is largely a hip hop artist, I thought it fit too.
The ridiculous part is where do these multi-millionaires even come up with these lyrics? They are trying to appeal to th average Joe so much that they have to churn garbage like this out.
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The song is pretty catchy though!
I don't know what club this guy is going to, but $20 is going to "line up" 3 shots, max.
I don't think most people think of the song as sound financial advice. It's like all those songs about living just for today so you have fun and party it up.
It's also not just hip hop. Rock songs, random dance songs, they all say it. For instance:
Black Eyed Peas "I Gotta Feeling" talks about "I got my money, let's spend it up"
Kesha "Die Young" talks about making the most of this night like you're going to die young... if you're dying young no saving required
Nickelback's "Rockstar" song is all about having a lavish lifestyle
Barenaked ladies "If I had a million dollars" certainly doesn't suggest investing it
Abba's "Money money money" is almost the exact same as the lyrics you describe below, saying "I work all night, I work all day, to pay the bills I have to pay, Ain't it sad, And still there never seems to be a single penny left for me" then talks about getting a rich guy so you can spend a lot and have fun, or winning a lot in vegas to change your life... not very mustachian
N sync "I just got paid" talks about being paid on friday and blowing it at the club
I'm sure there are many others.
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Yep, definitely not a Black only thing. Plus the rationale makes a lot more sense when you're in debtor shoes. If you're thousands of dollars in the hole, why worry about $20? It's especially pernicious among wild young people who are pretty sure they're going to die young. Fate often plays cruel tricks on them.
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Here are some One Republic lyrics for you:
Lately I've been, I've been losing sleep
Dreaming about the things that we could be
But, baby I've been, I've been praying hard
Said no more counting dollars, we'll be counting stars
Lately I've been, I've been losing sleep
Dreaming about the things that we could be
But, baby I've been, I've been praying hard
Said no more counting dollars, we'll be—we'll be counting stars
Oh, take that money watch it burn,
Sing in the river the lessons I learned
Take that money watch it burn,
Sing in the river the lessons I learned
Take that money watch it burn,
Sing in the river the lessons I learned
Take that money watch it burn,
Sing in the river the lessons I learned
Everything that kills me makes me feel alive
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I seem to recall someone here posting a similar lyric from a Katy Perry(?) Song a while back.
Also Jet lyrics from "Cold hard b*tch":
Spent all my rent
Girl you know I enjoyed it
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Pink Floyd starts out great, even talks about growing a stash
Money, get away
Get a good job with more pay and you're O.K.
Money, it's a gas
Grab that cash with both hands and make a stash
But then it's all downhill
New car, caviar, four star daydream,
Think I'll buy me a football team
Money, get back
I'm all right, Jack, keep your hands off of my stack.
Money, it's a hit
Don't give me that do goody good bullshit
I'm in the hi-fidelity first class traveling set
And I think I need a Lear jet
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The song White Trash Millionaire by Black Stone Cherry is the only song in my music collection that ever mentions a 401(k).
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZQ8itDYP6HU
Not that anti-mustachian though...
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Or is it the other way around?
People who aren't going anywhere in their lives choose to listen to this music, which reinforces their poor choices?
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Nothing new - Gordon Lightfoot put this out a long time ago.
In the early morning rain with a dollar in my hand
With an aching in my heart and my pockets full of sand
Now, I'm a long way from home and I miss my loved ones so
In the early morning rain with no place to go
Out on runway number nine a big 707's set to go
But, I'm stuck here in the grass where the cold wind blows
Now, the liquor tasted good and the women all were fast
Well, there she goes, my friend, well she's going down at last
Hear the mighty engines roar - see the silver bird on high
She's away and westward bound - far above the clouds she'll fly
There the morning rain don't fall and the sun always shines
She'll be flying over my home in about three hours time
This old airport's got me down - it's no earthly good to me
'cause I'm stuck here on the ground as cold and drunk as I can be
You can't jump a jet plane like you can a freight train
So, I'd best be on my way in the early morning rain
You can't jump a jet plane like you can a freight train
So, I'd best be on my way in the early morning rain
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I always liked "How do you afford your rock and roll lifestyle?" by Cake. Scathing mockery played completely straight.
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I always liked "How do you afford your rock and roll lifestyle?" by Cake. Scathing mockery played completely straight.
How much did you pay for the chunk of his guitar, the one he ruthlessly smashed at the end of the show?
And how much will he pay for a brand new guitar, one which he'll ruthlessly smash at the end of another show....
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I always liked "How do you afford your rock and roll lifestyle?" by Cake. Scathing mockery played completely straight.
Is it you or your parents in this income tax bracket? :) I love that song and I just realized how mustachian it is.
Excess ain't rebellion, you're drinking what they're selling...
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OMG I FUCKING HATE THAT PITBULL SONG. Glad someone brought it up here, LOL. Seriously I cringe and throw up in my mouth a little bit every time I hear it, and then change the station as quickly as possible.
I agree with whoever said it's not really a hip hop thing... just a mainstream culture thing unfortunately.
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As a self-proclaimed hip-hop head (not rap...there is a difference) & someone who appreciates many different genres of music in general, I thought I would leave this gem here as it relates to the discussion at hand :)
Vulgarity aside - I can appreciate the nod to women with high credit scores!
Chorus to *5 Star Chick* - Yo Gotti ft. Gucci Mane (brrr!), Nicki Minaj & Trina
That's a five-star chick
Now that's a five-star chick, if your credit score high
Feet and nails stay fly, keep your juice-box wet
And your head somethin' fine
You a five-star chick
I want a five-star chick
I need a five-star chick
I need a five-star chick
I want a five-star chick
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Thought of more to add - but realized that Forbes had already done plenty of heavy lifting for me: http://www.forbes.com/pictures/emjl45hfjl/10-personal-finance-tips-from-hip-hop-lyrics-2/
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The new Pitbull song drives me up the proverbial wall every time that it turns on but I also immediately think about Katy Perry and this little gem...
This one goes out to the ladies at breakfast in last night's dress
(It's how we do, straight stuntin' like that)
Uh-huh, I see you
Yo, this goes out to all you kids that still have their cars at the club valet and it's Tuesday
(This is how we do yeah straight stuntin' like that)
Yo, shout out to all you kids, buying bottle service, with your rent money
Respect
Seriously....easy for her to say.
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Clearly you haven't listened to the new album from Kendrick Lamar (http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/05/31/kendrick-lamar-house_n_5420361.html). To Pimp a Butterfly is awesomely anti-consumerist. For example, from Wesley's Theory:
What you want you? A house or a car?
Forty acres and a mule, a piano, a guitar?
Anything, see, my name is Uncle Sam, I'm your dog
Motherfucker you can live at the mall
I know your kind (That's why I'm kind)
Don't have receipts (Oh man, that's fine)
Pay me later, wear those gators
Cliché and say, fuck your haters
I can see the borrow in you
I can see the dollar in you
Little white lies, but it's no white-collar in you
But it's whatever though because I'm still followin' you
Because you make me live forever baby, count it all together baby
Then hit the register and make me feel better baby
Your horoscope is a gemini, two sides
So you better cop everything two times
Two coupes, two chains, two c-notes
Too much ain't enough both we know
Christmas, tell 'em what's on your wish list
Get it all, you deserve it Kendrick
And when you hit the White House, do you
But remember, you ain't pass economics in school
And everything you buy, taxes will deny
I'll Wesley Snipe your ass before thirty-five
Or how about Kanye's New Slaves?
You see it's broke nigga racism
That's that "Don't touch anything in the store"
And it's rich nigga racism
That's that "Come in, please buy more"
"What you want, a Bentley? Fur coat? A diamond chain?
All you blacks want all the same things"
Used to only be niggas, now everybody playin'
Spendin' everything on Alexander Wang
New Slaves
Sure, there's a lot of live-for-today messaging in a lot of popular music, but it's not specific to any one "culture" or genre.
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Clearly you haven't listened to the new album from Kendrick Lamar (http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/05/31/kendrick-lamar-house_n_5420361.html). To Pimp a Butterfly is awesomely anti-consumerist. For example, from Wesley's Theory:
His untitled track from Colbert had some great stuff too:
A piece of land
That's what the Indian said, I needed demand
Telling me longevity is in the dirt, buy some property first
Profit a better dollar with generational perks
Equity at his best, really, you should invest
These tangible things expire, don't you expect
Income with so much outcome and yes
Look at my heritage, we blessed
Sucks it won't be released
http://www.stereogum.com/1790227/that-kendrick-lamar-song-from-colbert-hasnt-been-recorded-wont-be-released/news/
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Just reminded me of this:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s7mT4JR3Qr4
Much more fun hating things that make fun of this. But it is more most music in general than hip hop. People don't particularly want to listen to a song about how everyone stayed at home reading and managing their portfolio. Or maybe this is just an untapped market...
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I guess I love a lot of unmustachian songs. Actually, they are about the only songs I listen to.
Shout out to "Bills" by LunchMoney Lewis
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I knew that song would strike a chord with this audience (we've had multiple threads now).
But I'll say the Barenaked Ladies song (and I'm sure some others) are tongue-in-cheek. "If I had a million dollars, I'd buy your love" is certainly self-aware
People don't particularly want to listen to a song about how everyone stayed at home reading and managing their portfolio. Or maybe this is just an untapped market...
If they can do it for grandma using Photoshop, they can do it for Vanguard.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X71WXhOyWj8
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Or is it the other way around?
People who aren't going anywhere in their lives choose to listen to this music, which reinforces their poor choices?
Well that's a bunch of crap. I enjoy all kinds of music (including this kind) and stereotyping about it won't get anyone anywhere.
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A little 1974 Old School from the Tubes:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fgjfi1DU1mQ
WARNING to those under 50- You may have to fire up the Google machine to figure out what some of these references are!
...Well, you can't have that, but if you're an American citizen you are entitled to:
a heated kidney shaped pool,
a microwave oven--don't watch the food cook,
a Dyna-Gym--I'll personally demonstrate it in the privacy of your own home,
a king-size Titanic unsinkable Molly Brown waterbed with polybendum,
a foolproof plan and an airtight alibi,
real simulated Indian jewelry,
a Gucci shoetree,
a year's supply of antibiotics,
a personally autographed picture of Randy Mantooth
and Bob Dylan's new unlisted phone number,
a beautifully restored 3rd Reich swizzle stick,
Rosemary's baby,
a dream date in kneepads with Paul Williams,
a new Matador, a new mastodon,
a Maverick, a Mustang, a Montego,
a Merc Montclair, a Mark IV, a meteor,
a Mercedes, an MG, or a Malibu,
a Mort Moriarty, a Maserati, a Mac truck,
a Mazda, a new Monza, or a moped,
a Winnebago--Hell, a herd of Winnebago's we're giving 'em away,
or how about a McCulloch chainsaw,
a Las Vegas wedding,
a Mexican divorce,
a solid gold Kama Sutra coffee pot,
or a baby's arm holding an apple?
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I agree OP, hip hop culture is likely the most vulgar and ostentatious expression of our overall culture (if you can call it that), driven purely by material consumption. I'm pretty young, but at times feel like I've been transported to this age from some bygone era, when simplicity and modesty reigned.
MFW http://i0.kym-cdn.com/photos/images/newsfeed/000/648/220/67b.jpg
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ITT the upper class doesn't understand hip-hop
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The ridiculous part is where do these multi-millionaires even come up with these lyrics?
It's not ridiculous. It's not like they're writing them themselves. They pay people to do that. Only poor rappers write their own lyrics.
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fun tune about $$$
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zQrdKtPJxI0
in context, they're about to throw a fundraiser concert to save the bowling alley :-P
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ITT the upper class doesn't understand hip-hop
You see, the kids these days, they listen to the rap music, which gives them the brain damage. With the hippin' and the hoppin' and the bippin' and the boppin', they don't know what the jazz is all about. - Bill Cosby
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Luckily there's plenty of punk rock to cancel out that shit.
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Clearly you haven't listened to the new album from Kendrick Lamar (http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/05/31/kendrick-lamar-house_n_5420361.html). To Pimp a Butterfly is awesomely anti-consumerist. For example, from Wesley's Theory:
His untitled track from Colbert had some great stuff too:
A piece of land
That's what the Indian said, I needed demand
Telling me longevity is in the dirt, buy some property first
Profit a better dollar with generational perks
Equity at his best, really, you should invest
These tangible things expire, don't you expect
Income with so much outcome and yes
Look at my heritage, we blessed
Sucks it won't be released
http://www.stereogum.com/1790227/that-kendrick-lamar-song-from-colbert-hasnt-been-recorded-wont-be-released/news/
I love that one too! I was pretty bummed when I found out that song wasn't going to be on the new album. That performance gave me confidence that the new album wasn't going to be some pop-junk sell-out album (since until that point, only "i" had been released).
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ITT the upper class doesn't understand hip-hop
You see, the kids these days, they listen to the rap music, which gives them the brain damage. With the hippin' and the hoppin' and the bippin' and the boppin', they don't know what the jazz is all about. - Bill Cosby
You sure post a lot of simpsons quotes.
This mentality is not just in hip hop. It's in rock. It's in country.
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ITT the upper class doesn't understand hip-hop
You see, the kids these days, they listen to the rap music, which gives them the brain damage. With the hippin' and the hoppin' and the bippin' and the boppin', they don't know what the jazz is all about. - Bill Cosby
You sure post a lot of simpsons quotes.
This mentality is not just in hip hop. It's in rock. It's in country.
Early Simpsons was formative
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Luckily there's plenty of punk rock to cancel out that shit.
Yes, altho a lot of punk isn't about stashin' for the future... it's about hitting the road with you thumb out knowing at the other end you can always dumpster some bagels, and the scene will give you a floor to sleep on :-)
In some ways it's Mustachian (anti-consumption, community first), but in other ways, that lifestyle doesn't work out so well when you're 40, ready to settle down with your partner and still have $0 net worth and no particular workplace skills (combined with homemade tattoos and tracks on your arms) as some of my friends are now discovering. That being said the overall message I get from punk is positive... that I don't need s**t to be happy, just punk rock, friends and beer :-)
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Country music is really annoying me right now with its reliance on truck songs in which the guy has nothing better to do than drive around aimlessly for hours. And the trucks are presumably always in the farmer-diplomat style. along with that, you have all the songs about people hanging out in pastures who appear to be about 40 years old. Most of the songs seem to be aimed at people who peaked in high school. There are tons of references to alcohol in the truck songs, too.
When my 17 yr. Old teenager heard that Pit bull song she said sarcastiy, "Wow, that's fiscally responsible." So something is working!
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Luckily there's plenty of punk rock to cancel out that shit.
Great post. I have thought about hip hop ruining people financially, but I never had the balls to post it. I come from the punk rock side and I view it as 100% opposite. Punk rock was bragging about having a good time without any money. I guess that you could make the same argument for other types of music including country.
My first big influence was Nirvana, so I learned to have fun at thrift shops. I think Kurt Cobain was a mustashian. He thought a 9-5 job would ruin his creativity, so he fought like hell to never have a job even if it meant sleeping in a car. One of the guys from biggerpockets.com owns the house that he was born in.
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Funny the op mentions the opening song. I'm not a huge fan of current pop but if it's on I'll listen. Mostly don't pay attention to the lyrics but when I heard that the guy knew he couldn't pay his rent two weeks ago and is going to the club I was aghast! I mentioned it to my wife. It's freakin' insane. Every time I hear stupid shit like that I imagine if the kids that are listening are taking the "message" to heart.
Sometimes when I think about the current state of affairs, I feel like that Indian in the old 70's commercial standing looking at the wasteland that it all has become with a tear streaming down his face. It's that sad.
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Can anyone think of any popular song, in any genre, at any time in history, that celebrated mustachian choices?
I mean seriously, folks, who wants to listen to a song about a guy who is behind on his rent, so he decides that instead of going to the club, he will pick up some extra shifts at his job and sell some stuff on Craigslist, and starts thinking about whether he should move to a smaller place or get a roommate so he doesn't end up in this situation again?
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I agree. I'm not saying I don't like to rock n' roll all night and party every day. :D
My observation was that it seems so blatantly instructional. (ie: I know I don't have the money; I know I can't afford it; I know it's stupid but, I'm still going to blow everything I have in order to try and have/buy a good time because I deserve it. If you do this too, you'll be one of the cool kids- just like us.)
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Can anyone think of any popular song, in any genre, at any time in history, that celebrated mustachian choices?
what what what what
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QK8mJJJvaes
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ha! One of my favorites.
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OP: Let me guess, you are white?
first - pitbull is not hip-hop, it is commercial rap.
Being bad with money is not unique to non-white people. I'm sure we could find some country songs that are just as bad.
real hip hop is very socially aware. For instance, take "Show Business" by A Tribe Called Quest. I'm not gonna paste the lyrics, but here they are:
http://genius.com/A-tribe-called-quest-show-business-lyrics
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me? non-white. Real rap is NWA. (I'm just old)
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woops, no, not you, OP.
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woops, no, not you, OP.
He must have though you said OPP
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Can anyone think of any popular song, in any genre, at any time in history, that celebrated mustachian choices?
Not a lot that was written recently, but I remember a few. A surprising number were written or performed by women. Men sing about money far more often than women do, but they generally sing about making it easily (or illegally), spending it irresponsibly, having (or wanting) a lot of it, or perhaps warning about how it corrupts people. Very few songs actually deal with managing your life so that you live comfortably on what you've got.
* Billy Joel's "Movin' Out (Anthony's Song)" was a rejection of the high consumption lifestyle, with its associated lifelong commitment to hard work.
* Madonna's "Material Girl" definitely advocated saving and investing.
* Donna Summer's "She Works Hard For The Money" doesn't feature investment but it definitely talks about respecting what you've got.
* Abba's "Money, Money, Money" song was actually written by men, but dealt with bad cash flow management.
* Billie Holliday's "God Bless The Child" discusses the necessity of having one's own 'stache.
* Merle Travis's "16 Tons" warned about the dangers of debt.
* Offspring's "Why Don't You Get A Job" is probably the most recent of the lot, but I'm kind of reluctant to include it as it's more an anti-codependency song than something about saving and investing.
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Can anyone think of any popular song, in any genre, at any time in history, that celebrated mustachian choices?
Not a lot that was written recently, but I remember a few. A surprising number were written or performed by women. Men sing about money far more often than women do, but they generally sing about making it easily (or illegally), spending it irresponsibly, having (or wanting) a lot of it, or perhaps warning about how it corrupts people. Very few songs actually deal with managing your life so that you live comfortably on what you've got.
* Billy Joel's "Movin' Out (Anthony's Song)" was a rejection of the high consumption lifestyle, with its associated lifelong commitment to hard work.
* Madonna's "Material Girl" definitely advocated saving and investing.
* Donna Summer's "She Works Hard For The Money" doesn't feature investment but it definitely talks about respecting what you've got.
* Abba's "Money, Money, Money" song was actually written by men, but dealt with bad cash flow management.
* Billie Holliday's "God Bless The Child" discusses the necessity of having one's own 'stache.
* Merle Travis's "16 Tons" warned about the dangers of debt.
* Offspring's "Why Don't You Get A Job" is probably the most recent of the lot, but I'm kind of reluctant to include it as it's more an anti-codependency song than something about saving and investing.
http://forum.mrmoneymustache.com/welcome-to-the-forum/mustachian-music-9639/
http://forum.mrmoneymustache.com/welcome-to-the-forum/what-is-your-mmm-soundtrack/
http://forum.mrmoneymustache.com/mustachianism-around-the-web/lorde-mustachian-musician/
http://forum.mrmoneymustache.com/welcome-to-the-forum/songs-that-make-you-think-about-fire/
http://forum.mrmoneymustache.com/welcome-to-the-forum/a-mustachian-anthem/
http://forum.mrmoneymustache.com/mustachianism-around-the-web/mustachian-anthem/
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Lorde - royals
No postcode envy...
We count our dollars on the bus on the way to the party .....
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I don't know, I listened to this stuff during my impressionable years and turned out okay.
Thug lyfe 4 eva.
No, seriously, I'm not sure if the songs make people money dumb or the money dumb love hearing these songs to make them feel justified in their own pity-wallowing and self-loathing. And it's not just black people/hip hop culture that inculcates the "spend it all because YOLO" attitude.
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Can anyone think of any popular song, in any genre, at any time in history, that celebrated mustachian choices?
I mean seriously, folks, who wants to listen to a song about a guy who is behind on his rent, so he decides that instead of going to the club, he will pick up some extra shifts at his job and sell some stuff on Craigslist, and starts thinking about whether he should move to a smaller place or get a roommate so he doesn't end up in this situation again?
King of the Road
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Not mustachian, but Lily Allen has some good anti-anti-mustachian ones... Check out "The Fear" and "Everything's Just Wonderful".
http://youtu.be/P191zutE1D0
http://youtu.be/n_ZW_pUQx2s
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* Merle Travis's "16 Tons" warned about the dangers of debt.
Coal miners were only paid scrip that couldn't be taken anywhere else, and the company marked up the price of things in the only store that the scrip could be used to whatever they wanted. The song's not really about the dangers of debt . . . it's about the way corporations treat people absent regulation.
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Not mustachian, but Lily Allen has some good anti-anti-mustachian ones... Check out "The Fear" and "Everything's Just Wonderful".
Oh man, I used to blare Lily Allen at work on my speakers. Pretty much summed up my attitude toward some work related things.
"Fuck you / Fuck you very, very much" :)
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No idea what song it was, but some country summer song that I heard on the radio today talked about sitting in thrift shop chairs and going to get margaritas when they were 2 for 1 special.
The only frivolous spending was putting money in a tip jar for a band to play.
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Buying margaritas is pretty damned frivolous.
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Buying margaritas is pretty damned frivolous.
Well, if you are going to do it, at least do it when they are on sale.
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Buying margaritas is pretty damned frivolous.
My wife used get margaritas when dining at Mexican restaurants. Although there's something unsettling about paying $5 for the meal and $6 for a small glass with sugary fruity syrup and a shot or two of tequila in it (that we can make at home for $1 or so).
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Buying margaritas is pretty damned frivolous.
My wife used get margaritas when dining at Mexican restaurants. Although there's something unsettling about paying $5 for the meal and $6 for a small glass with sugary fruity syrup and a shot or two of tequila in it (that we can make at home for $1 or so).
I don't know why it bothers me so little that food is marked up at restaurants but It really pisses me off to pay $6 for $1 beer or $8 for a $2 margarita. I guess I just think alcohol should be federally subsidized.
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Buying margaritas is pretty damned frivolous.
My wife used get margaritas when dining at Mexican restaurants. Although there's something unsettling about paying $5 for the meal and $6 for a small glass with sugary fruity syrup and a shot or two of tequila in it (that we can make at home for $1 or so).
I don't know why it bothers me so little that food is marked up at restaurants but It really pisses me off to pay $6 for $1 beer or $8 for a $2 margarita. I guess I just think alcohol should be federally subsidized.
I'll take it a step further and say that liquor and weed ought to be included as a basic income distribution.
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I don't know why it bothers me so little that food is marked up at restaurants but It really pisses me off to pay $6 for $1 beer or $8 for a $2 margarita. I guess I just think alcohol should be federally subsidized.
Because you like getting value for money paid? :) And you realize you're paying $4.98 to rent a bar stool, $0.02 (plus a buck tip) to have someone remove a bottle cap and place a napkin under your beer, and $1 for the actual beer.
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Any kind of "party" music is going to have these kinds of themes. A lot of musicians who cater to the lower-classes also like to persuade them with promises of elevation of their social status through conspicuous consumption. It's all part of the advertising trap that makes people think that if they buy the right things they will get more sex and more respect.
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I don't know why it bothers me so little that food is marked up at restaurants but It really pisses me off to pay $6 for $1 beer or $8 for a $2 margarita. I guess I just think alcohol should be federally subsidized.
I'm surprised so many mustachians drink at all. Even at home alcohol is a lot more expensive than water. And it is really easy to cut.
But we all have our spendypants habits. I don't drink but I buy a lot of fabric.
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I don't know why it bothers me so little that food is marked up at restaurants but It really pisses me off to pay $6 for $1 beer or $8 for a $2 margarita. I guess I just think alcohol should be federally subsidized.
Because you like getting value for money paid? :) And you realize you're paying $4.98 to rent a bar stool, $0.02 (plus a buck tip) to have someone remove a bottle cap and place a napkin under your beer, and $1 for the actual beer.
Yeah, it occurs to me that the problem is price transparency and fungibility. I can get the exact same [insert your favorite beer] at Costco for 1/6 the price. I can't say that I can get the exact same meal in the frozen dinner section. In other words, I would have to do some work to prepare a cheaper meal myself, but it's dead simple to open my own beer at home.
I don't know why it bothers me so little that food is marked up at restaurants but It really pisses me off to pay $6 for $1 beer or $8 for a $2 margarita. I guess I just think alcohol should be federally subsidized.
I'm surprised so many mustachians drink at all. Even at home alcohol is a lot more expensive than water. And it is really easy to cut.
But we all have our spendypants habits. I don't drink but I buy a lot of fabric.
I only drink alcohol to raise my HDL and improve my longevity.
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nd it is really easy to cut.
easy for some :)
I'm really into beer in the same way I'm really into cooking. unfortunately being really into cooking usually saves money... the beer, not so much :(
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Yeah, it occurs to me that the problem is price transparency and fungibility. I can get the exact same [insert your favorite beer] at Costco for 1/6 the price. I can't say that I can get the exact same meal in the frozen dinner section. In other words, I would have to do some work to prepare a cheaper meal myself, but it's dead simple to open my own beer at home.
True enough, but if I go out somewhere that has "simple" food (pasta, steak, etc) I can't help but quantify what I'm eating. Like hey, it's $0.50 worth of tomatoes, $2.00 of shrimp and $0.25 of pasta but I just paid $14 for the dish. Or $4.50 worth of ribeye and $0.25 worth of potato but I paid $16 for it. Although agreed that it's the effort and expertise to turn simple ingredients into something incredible, warm and delicious that's worth the 4-5x mark up.
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Yeah, it occurs to me that the problem is price transparency and fungibility. I can get the exact same [insert your favorite beer] at Costco for 1/6 the price. I can't say that I can get the exact same meal in the frozen dinner section. In other words, I would have to do some work to prepare a cheaper meal myself, but it's dead simple to open my own beer at home.
True enough, but if I go out somewhere that has "simple" food (pasta, steak, etc) I can't help but quantify what I'm eating. Like hey, it's $0.50 worth of tomatoes, $2.00 of shrimp and $0.25 of pasta but I just paid $14 for the dish. Or $4.50 worth of ribeye and $0.25 worth of potato but I paid $16 for it. Although agreed that it's the effort and expertise to turn simple ingredients into something incredible, warm and delicious that's worth the 4-5x mark up.
Yes, me too. Which is why I have some stupid internal rule that I don't order stuff at restaurants that I can easily cook myself. Usually I'll choose something that I would have had to go back in time to roast or marinate for many hours, hunt for ingredients, or buy and open a large package to something just to use a little.
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Lupe Fiasco is a hip hop artist I like. But his lyrics include things like
"'Raris too expensive and they way too hard to maintain
Get yourself a Camry, "nigga said a Camry?"
Watch that ho depreciate and then you'll understand me
It's called being fiscally responsible"
But I do have to say I don't listen to most hip-hop/rap. Also for songs that are about anti-mustachian behaviors, The Distance by Cake is all about the guy who loses his family because he spends all his time at work focusing on building his career.