According to De Noire, business at her brothel usually picks up in the spring once people give up on their New Year’s resolutions and recover from holiday spending. But this year, business is down. She attributes the “huge dip” in earnings at her brothel to customers feeling insecure about the economy.
“There are significantly fewer clients coming in, and the sex workers are reporting…
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“My grocery bill is like 20% higher because we are not buying American goods right now. Really can’t wait for the garden to start producing, lol. Walking past the strawberries on sale to pick up the ones that are full price really hurts, but we’re…
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“While I don’t work directly for rich people, I’m adjacent to it. Our client’s clients are super wealthy, so they are immune to any economic upheaval. It’s funny when people say the richest .001% ‘lost’ billions with the…
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“You can figure out how rich a person is based on their extracurriculars.”
“If they have no extracurriculars, they’re poor. Most middle-class families force their kids to do something, whether that be sports, music, etc.
Extracurriculars…
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It takes true creativity to twist “employee appreciation” into “we force you to buy donuts and desserts on your own dime to feed your…
RS: First, I would take a look at my discretionary spending, and I would get serious about tamping down or eliminating most of it. Discretionary spending is the fun stuff. It’s stuff like going out, travel, drinks, eating out those kinds of things, and I would…
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(Cont.) “We didn’t have heat that first winter — thankfully before we moved somewhere where that would be deadly — but we would still have a thin layer of ice form on top of a water glass if we left it near the exterior wall on the counter. The cold was the most…
