There's a world of difference between saying "it's only a small percentage of my income, I might as well buy it" so many times that your income is eaten up by those small purchases, and saying "I'm spending this small percentage of my income this one time after considering whether or not it's worthwhile and how that fits into my overall financial plan." Letting yourself treat some of your income as disposable won't doom you to poverty forever, you just have to be sensible about it and set reasonable limits for your discretionary spending. If you're well-off, spending $200 on this one thing you want isn't going to change that.
Now, saying "I've already bought a couple other expensive things lately, so I can't justify this one" is perfectly reasonable. Going straight to "that's why poor people stay poor," though, is just silly.
Except the dude is saying that I shouldn't care about how much it costs because what I make. I see that a lot around here. Dumbasses spending all their money because they make pretty good money off of the oil field.
Far-Queue posted...
Good thing you earn more than some broke ass cement mixer driver or else you could never afford one
Lol, big talk from someone that makes less than me and doesn't even know the difference between cement and concrete. ---
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