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FRIDAY, 6 JULY 2001
You don't have a spending problem.
You have an income problem, and it's terminal.
— Zack, unqualified
VERIFIEDUNHELPFUL
PREVIOUSLY, ON YOUR DECLINE
- Your complaint has been escalated. It is now ignored by someone more senior.
- Fortnite was free to play. It was not free to stop.
- Don't settle. Your standards already have. They didn't tell you.
- Your financial advisor is a spreadsheet you opened once in January. It's been screaming…
- Your Sunday-night plan for Monday was ambitious. Monday read it, laughed, and forwarded it…
- The first email you open on Monday is a reply-all from Friday. Forty replies.…
- 2026 is the new 2016. Your knees did not get the memo. Your knees…
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