Reply #127: Simplistic and silly

[Warpy]

After all, it's a lot easier to afford a simple luxury like an overpriced coffee once or twice a week than it is to afford to do things like buy health insurance, the one item contributing more to the breakdown of the middle class than any other since any wage increases are immediately eaten up by increased health premiums. People aren't doing the second lifestyle because they are simply not paid enough to do the second lifestyle, both in wages and free time. If they're savers, those savings can be gone in the blink of an eye over some rather minor problem like suddenly needing dental work or having some idiot rear end the car at a stop light.

I much prefer his pipe dream at http://blogs.hbr.org/haque/2011/04/when_customer_rebellion_become.html?cm_sp=blog_flyout-_-haque-_-when_customer_rebellion_become