This isn't the America I grew up to love (dial-up)

[DainBramaged]

[KatyMan]

1. That balance must be a mistake

Surely no one has $99 million sitting in a plain old savings account! Maybe I'm wrong? I know nothing about high finance, but even to me that seems odd.

[aquart]

3. Mad money for impulse purchases?

[librechik]

4. the story goes that receipt was found on the sidewalk near Wall Street

and was later confirmed to belong to an absent-minded trader. I think this is real.

[KatyMan]

7. Thanks...I'm no expert :)

I believe that it was presented as real, and accept it's real, but I guess I'm thinking it was an extraordinary amount of money to keep in one's savings. We never have a ton in savings, so I just thought rich people did other things with their money :)

I worked as a desktop support person for an oil tools company in 98 or 99, and was dedicated to the executive group. One day a VP called me to his office because his pc was frozen (he was a generally nice guy, very rich but decent). Unfortunately for him, it froze while he was doing online banking, and his checking account was up and it had a balance of over 60k. As I came in he started talking to me about his tax problems, and going on about it, and when I finally sat down at his pc to work on it I saw his balance. He must've seen the look on my face, because the very next thing he said was "I guess you're not really sympathetic to my tax problems are you?" I of course said no :)

[mckara]

5. Definitely a Preferred Customer

Probably getting more than the 1% interest that my account receives each year.

[Chipper Chat]

6. If a 1%'er wants to buy 12 new Lexuses he can just withdraw the cash.

You know, one for his wife, 6 for his kids, and 5 for his mistresses.

[Newest Reality]

2. If this all continues on the

course it is on, imagine the America we will be living in before we die.

While change is inevitable and the only constant, it is a matter of what kind we can have and get.

[arcane1]

8. America was never the America we grew up to love

There never was a golden age. Never.

[DainBramaged]

9. When I was 18 and without debt, stoned, listening to the Doors, that was my golden age

sorry, we all have one. I never expected America to become bat-shit crazy.

[arcane1]

10. Individual golden ages, yes, I had mine as well

But this country has never lived up to its own ideals. The photos from the OP could have come from any period in our history.