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What kind of increase to your current salary would you need to change your lifestyle?

  • up to 50% raise in income

    Votes: 3 15.8%

  • 50% raise up to double current income

    Votes: 7 36.8%

  • 2X up to triple current income

    Votes: 3 15.8%

  • 3X up to 5X current income

    Votes: 1 5.3%

  • more than 5X current income

    Votes: 0 0.0%

  • up to 100k annual salary (dollars)

    Votes: 0 0.0%

  • 100k to 200k

    Votes: 2 10.5%

  • 200k to 300k

    Votes: 3 15.8%

  • 300k to 500k

    Votes: 0 0.0%

  • more than 500k

    Votes: 2 10.5%
  • Total voters
    19
Happiness threashold? Hell, I do not even own a vehicle an I am happy. I got a rickshaw that gets me where I need to be an I hitch a ride to SLC with my neighbor construction company on Jazz game nights an make like $150-200 in three hours from the bar drunks. He don't care cause I scrap his drywall for him. Those guys get so tired they hate the cleanup.

I bet I am the poorest person here but I am also the happiest. Own a piece of property with a creek running throug it, can hunt birds an even big game in season, tons of my food comes from trade with neighbor farmers in the summer an fall, an winter crops in my garden, just got these cool insulation pads for inside my trailer walls that a neighbor lady sowed me for replacing her roof shingles last September , that saved me several hundred in heating costs this winter. They're so darn cool man, she sowed these flaps for the Windows an all I have to do is Velcro them up at night. I saved up $2400 for a bigger trailer but these things are so nifty I do not think i can part with it any more.
 
JAZZGASM said:
I have done 4 and 5 team parlays a few times. Never big $$$ bets, maybe up to $50. I have won more $$$ than I have lost. It is a fun way to spend an evening at the Sports book when I am in Vegas.
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Isn't that how parlays work? Bet a little amount of money to win a lot? It's a quick way to lose money if you bet a lot of money though. All it takes is to win one 4/5 team parlay and it makes up for 5 losses.


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White Chocolate said:
Isn't that how parlays work? Bet a little amount of money to win a lot? It's a quick way to lose money if you bet a lot of money though. All it takes is to win one 4/5 team parlay and it makes up for 5 losses.

Yeah, that is how it works. I honestly haven't kept track, but I think I have won close to 50% of my parlay bets. I only make the wager after the referee assignments have been made (same day bets). It is surprising to see the effect the selected referees can have on a game. There are a lot of factors, but for example, Leon Wood and Ed Malloy tend to let the home teams win a combine 73% of the time. Not to mention analyzing team bias. I usually take an hour determining my wagers before going to the sports book. For me, that is what makes it fun. And that is why I hate betting in March Madness. To many variables. The NBA is much easier.



But again, I only make small wagers on parlay bets. I make larger wagers on individual games. My last time was in Vegas in November I won a 5 game parlay (got lucky on the last game when LAL came back to beat Sac), and I also won on all 7 college FB games I picked that weekend. Took home a good amount of cash, and my boss and clients we had with us were all happy because they bet my recommendations as well.
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b_line said:
If I doubled my salary, I'd have a significant change of pace.

I did increase my salary by 50% a couple years ago, and that changed our lives a lot by simply being able to pay off all debt excluding a home. If I doubled my current salary, I'd be able to pay off a home within three years while maximizing my contributions to mine and my wife's IRA accounts.
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That's mainly what I would do.


JustTheTip said:
I already don't have time to do anything, and I don't think that will ever change.

With that said, Frank crushed it. I'd do the same things, just with nicer stuff. Main thing is I would invest a lot more, otherwise I think my quality of life is great. Not much more I would do with more money.
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If I doubled my income I would probably buy an *** ton of life insurance and give a bunch to family.
 
LogGrad98 said:
White chocolate isn't really chocolate.
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Chocolate is cocoa-latte.

When processed in industry, the first thing they do is segregate it to two parts by compressing it with high pressure.

These two parts are cocoa powder and cocoa butter.

White chocolate is made of cocoa butter instead of the cocoa powder.

So it is chocolate despite the common belief.


I post, therefore I am.
 
infection said:
My experience has not convinced me of the effectiveness of his proposed plans. For instance, I had penned him a letter (wrote an email) back in 2009 after I saw him on CSPAN circa ACA discussions and pumping up how we needed to invest more money into the National Health Service Corps to be able to put primary care physicians (or "providers" if you prefer a more ambiguous and inclusive [i.e. cheaper] term) in underserved areas. The reason I wrote him was that he was saying things that, though he believed, didn't really work. One of the big ideas with the NHSC is to provide a scholarship (tuition + stipend) to medical (and dental) students who committed to going in to a primary care specialty and practice in an underserved area (a separate debate) on a year-for-year commitment. The idea is that you get more physicians (or "providers") in to rural and urban areas to expand access to care. Great concept. However, haven taken a serious look at the program the year before, I saw the entire process that takes applications for the program with the consideration being for those with demonstrable evidence of being committed to 1) a primary care specialty and 2) working in an underserved area -- the process selects only for those who are on this path already, leaving the entire program to be a subsidy for its scholars rather than a recruitment of new blood. Now, you can certainly say that this is good to lift the burden of those committing to this path, but as far as actually increasing the amount of primary care physicians practicing in underserved areas -- the reason the program exists -- it does not do that.

Anyway, I guess back then the website assumes anyone who sends an email is a fan because they added me to the weekly "Bernie Bag" mailing list, or whatever it was.
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Good for you for contacting a politician with your perspective on an issue. My experience is that Bernie has never had a perfect perspective on every issue (no politician has) but I would encourage you to name any American politicians over the last ten years who have had demonstrably better stances on health care.
 
addictionary said:
Chocolate is cocoa-latte.

When processed in industry, the first thing they do is segregate it to two parts by compressing it with high pressure.

These two parts are cocoa powder and cocoa butter.

White chocolate is made of cocoa butter instead of the cocoa powder.

So it is chocolate despite the common belief.


I post, therefore I am.
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Hell, dark chocolate takes cocoa butter to so it ain't real chocolate either right? People these days will dispute anything just like Bill Clinton asking it depends on what your definition of is is.
 
addictionary said:
Chocolate is cocoa-latte.

When processed in industry, the first thing they do is segregate it to two parts by compressing it with high pressure.

These two parts are cocoa powder and cocoa butter.

White chocolate is made of cocoa butter instead of the cocoa powder.

So it is chocolate despite the common belief.


I post, therefore I am.
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It's a philosophical and for some a religious thing. White chocolate just isn't really chocolate. Kinda like Zima isn't really an alcoholic beverage.
 
LogGrad98 said:
It's a philosophical and for some a religious thing. White chocolate just isn't really chocolate. Kinda like Zima isn't really an alcoholic beverage.
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Zima is extinct isn't it?
 
Even with double our money, we would probably use it to get out of debt first. At that point we would feel more inclined to do things we can't do now, like remodeling the house or taking nicer vacations. The goal would be living debt free. That's wealth to us.
 
MoTappin said:
Even with double our money, we would probably use it to get out of debt first. At that point we would feel more inclined to do things we can't do now, like remodeling the house or taking nicer vacations. The goal would be living debt free. That's wealth to us.
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my parents said the same exact thing. Once they got out of debt, they were half-incontinent and well-past the time when they could take an awesome vacation that didn't involve sipping Mai Tais on some fake beach somewhere. They made plenty of money, were conservative-smart with it, and sorta lost the game.
 
If I was north of 200K, then things would definitely be different. I say that -- and I could probably get near that figure in a handful of years if I just worked my *** off -- but I don't want to slave away to get there. Maybe some different money-making opportunities to get near that figure will open up, but I'll pass on the avenues available at the moment.
 
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