Reply #94: I don't know. If you want "us" to mean DUers for instance?

[Pithlet]

I'd say a good chunk of "us" probably bought our computers on credit. How many of "us" have jobs that are solid? How many of us have already lost our jobs? How many of us should have seen it coming? When it comes down to it, how necessary is having a computer? Not much more than a TV if you want to come down to it. Sadly, I've seen more than one thread about DUers who have lost their homes.

This is why I think the OP and those agreeing with it are wrong. Because you can take any one or two bits of information out of a person's circumstance out of context, and hold it up to the light, and then the peanut gallery can ridicule it and call the target "Irresponsible!" "Stupid!" "What were they thinking!"

I'm not saying there aren't people who are bad at finances, and that there aren't people who make foolish choices. Of course there are. There always have been and always will be. But the people who think there has just been this sudden boom in the number of people like that, and that's the problem? I think they're the fools. These people who love to hold up victims who may or may not be responsible for their downfall, and ridicule them so they can pat their own perfect selves on the back, and pretend they won't go down with the ship. No thanks. These bizarre security blanket rituals do nothing for me.