On Dec 3, 1:58*pm, "Robert Green" wrote:
"DerbyDad03" wrote in message

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Show me where I *gained* or *acquired* anything more than I started
with by doing it myself.

OK (-:

One year when I proudly raked seventeen 39G bags of leaves in one afternoon
I *acquired* a ruptured disc that's been with me ever since. *The $35 I now
spend to have my lawn mowed or raked and my snow shoveled comes with a very
clear understanding of how much I really didn't *gain* by once doing the
work
myself.

I was about to try to explain what you just did in excruciating detail about
how even though my mother could save better than anyone else I ever knew,
without dad's weekly paycheck to save from, she would have eventually run
completely out of money. *That demonstrates clearly that saving does NOT
generate income. *Mowing your own lawn produces no new income and COSTS in
time, risks and materials. *But it's not worth the effort to patiently
explain Econ 101 since BobR used the magic word "idiot" which, as Oren so
memorably said: (paraphrasing) "means we aren't going to be friends."

Maybe once he learns to pull his horns in . . .

It's sad that someone not only has no clue as to what you are talking about
(saving money does not equal earning it) but that he's so incredibly
aggressive and insulting about being wrong.

BobR owes you an apology for calling you an idiot, Derby, but to understand
that, he would need to understand basic accounting and bookkeeping
principles. *He would also need a personality transplant to turn into a
person that understands when he's wrong and when he's been rude. *He's made
it clear, unfortunately, that he does not understand either.

BobR also appears to have missed the humor behind Mr. Austerity's
"business plan" comment. *(BobR, he was funnin' ya by showing that your
concept of earning money fails when expanded to its illogical end.) *BobR
does not understand by mowing his own lawn he makes no money. *If he did,
then mowing it ten times a day should net him $700.

If saving were earning, people who lost their jobs should be able to avoid
having their houses repossessed but of course, they can't, because you can't
"save" enough to meet the mortgage payment. *That takes an income stream. *A
*real* income stream, not just the "feeling" that you've earned money by
saving it.

--
Bobby G.

Now I fully understand that you are both idiots and no apology is
deserved by either of you.