50 Facts About The World People Accidentally Realized And Had To Share Them Online

I don't take it for granted. I have traveled to places where much of that is scarce and I lived in a time when you could not talk to people in other countries unless you were rich. But I grit my teeth every time I hear some person complaining about not being able to get a new iphone or game on the day it is released. Or looking down on others because they are not wearing the right brand of clothing / jewelry.

My sister was defrauded to the point of poverty. She was upset that she will never own a home with beautiful garden, she isn't even much of a gardener. I reminded her she "owns" more than she knows, public beautifully kept free parks and gardens within a 10 minute walk in every suburb and city in every direction, we'll kept and safe beaches, nature walks and hikes. In Australia, free healthcare and excellent public transport. We all collectively own these things, we should all care for them, our taxes are paying for them.

I always thought that having clean, running water available is the biggest luxery.

Being afraid of getting homeless and having to ask people for money for food once teaches you to appreciate things like that in your life. Also having travelled to poor places in the world. I had the feeling, that those people who complain for the slightest reason never left or had to leave their comfort zone. With so much going on in the world right now, you just have to be thankful to have a safe, warm home and enough to eat.

Our water heater went out last week and you'd have thought it was the end of the world. Went to Home Depot and bought one, brought it home and installed it. Probably 6 - 8 hours total without that convenience and I'm so disgusted with my family over their reactions.

Adam and Eve were the first humans to say I agree without fully knowing Apple's terms and conditions.

Also the first to play tennis when he served in the pharaoh's court.

The Lord God has given us these fifteen (*crunch*) ... ... ... TEN! TEN Commandments!

That's adorable ❣️❣️ I need to borrow it.🤭

And when it didn't work the first time, God said Try turning it off and back on again.

It's also easy to land in the "poor but not poor" mindset, where you spend yourself poor because you want to treat yourself and view a low price as "just X amount" over and over until you've spent far too much. People like this also tend to feel antsy and anxious with having a lot of money in their accounts. They think of all the ways that money can just vanish from their accounts, such as new high fees the bank might possibly want to impose, or someone hacking into the account, stealing their cards, etc, and never seeing that money again. So, they would rather spend it quick, even if there's intentions to try to save some money.

"The reason that the rich were so rich, Vimes reasoned, was because they managed to spend less money. Take boots, for example. ... A man who could afford fifty dollars had a pair of boots that'd still be keeping his feet dry in ten years' time, while a poor man who could only afford cheap boots would have spent a hundred dollars on boots in the same time and would still have wet feet."

And it is almost impossible to get out of the poverty cycle.

I remember hearing about this thing, i believe it is from one of the many diefferent worlds you create to escape your own, miserable ones, called discworld.

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I remember someone saying how they don't have the money to pay the upfront, lump expenses, so they have to go with the cheaper ones that won't last as long & they have to keep rebuying. They don't have $100 to buy the ones that will last, but they have $20 to buy the cheap ones.

If you earned $1000 per day, every day from birth to death, you would have to live to be 2739 years old, to become a billionaire. That's how rich billionaires are. They are the Dragons squatting on their hoard of wealth in our universe.

Is this international billion(a million millions) or a North American billion( 1000 million)?

I just verified this in Excel, it's mindblowing.

As Puppy Dancing! mentioned, in the USA, a billion is 1000 million.

I have a question. We have millions, billions, and trillions. What comes after trillions?

Monologue hell, I carry on full blown conversations and arguments with myself...........and usually lose.

Sometimes I wish I could turn my brain to silent