Your wage is represented as a number. You deduct various other numbers from your wage and the figure diminishes.
It is quite easy to look at your bank statement and see £40 deducted here and £300 deducted there.
If you were to actually hand over the money physically, you may see the situation differently.
Counting out £300 in cash is altogether different from seeing a figure on a credit card bill.
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Showing posts with label spending. Show all posts
Tuesday
Carelessness
The danger with abstraction is that it blinds you to the dangers of over-spending.
You are seduced into spending money you do not have.
This process is not an accident.
It has been cynically planned and implemented by financiers of various kinds.
Everyone wants a piece of the action.
You are the 'mark'.
These massive companies want a piece of your money.
Through your carelessness, and the process of abstraction, you have been distanced from the reality of your finances.
When your house is re-possessed, you realise that numerical abstraction may have hidden the reality from you - but reality cannot be ignored.
Crippling debt is the outcome of confusing the menu with the food.
You are seduced into spending money you do not have.
This process is not an accident.
It has been cynically planned and implemented by financiers of various kinds.
Everyone wants a piece of the action.
You are the 'mark'.
These massive companies want a piece of your money.
Through your carelessness, and the process of abstraction, you have been distanced from the reality of your finances.
When your house is re-possessed, you realise that numerical abstraction may have hidden the reality from you - but reality cannot be ignored.
Crippling debt is the outcome of confusing the menu with the food.
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