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Matrix and reality
Almost everyone was looking at the time the movie "The Matrix." The film looked box with disk gathering dust on the shelf for a long time - like topic is closed. But nothing has changed - the Matrix exists, and some evidence - the examples of the life of non-existent people - provided below ...
1. Credit cards
Peter Klyushkin gets 30 thousand rubles a month. He also has several credit cards with a total debt of 100 thousand rubles. A service of this loan Peter monthly fee banks ten percent of his salary: three thousand.
An almost tithe. If Peter worship the golden calf, it would be possible, such a situation and would suit. However, Peter prays to other gods, and their banks quietly hates for monthly extortion.
At the same time gradually repay the loan and to pay tribute to the moneylenders stop Pete can not. First, it holds tight to the hook this technique as "minimum payment" if Peter will stop spending money with credit cards, it will have in a few months to live on half the salary, which he can not afford.
And secondly, there are so many temptations, so many things-that-can-buy-for-money ... that Peter sees no other option but to continue year after year to feed his trouble zhiruyuschie banks.
Fun fact: Peter has long been dreaming of owning your own business, and the profitability of thirty percent per annum over it would suit. However organize absolutely iron gesheft - to pay the debt and banks begin to put the interest on the loan in his pocket - Peter can not. Matrix will not allow.
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2. Cars
Kohl's Piglet loves cars. Before he went on the subway, then save money on the Lada. Now moves to borrow Lancer. He money to spare, often have to skimp on the most important, such as a vacation or doctors. But life without your car is no longer Kohl.
He should be given credit for a car, pay for vtyuhat dealer accessories and absurdly expensive insurance. He needs to solve a bunch of small problems with parking, with scratches, replacing consumables and warranty repairs. He needs time to change tires during the season and three times a week to fill yourself full tank.
Kohl, in principle, does not complain. Every single injection of money into the car quite posilen. That's only if Kohl carefully calculated cost of ownership of his treasure, he would have found that narrow-eyed chetverokolesny each month devour a third of his salary and half of his free time.
Kohl could buy instead Lancer good old Lada Chisel not to bother at all nor Hull nor rust / scratch, no expensive spare parts? To throw the car anywhere, and to be repaired for a small price in good service close to home, without paper fuss and no queues?
Probably could. But if you tell Cole that he chose not to machine level, Kohl's will not even send you in the ass with your advice. Kohl just do astonished eyes and shook his finger to his temple.
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3. The lack of sleep
Olya Golovolastnaya sleeps six hours a day. Sometimes - for five hours. Woke up, slammed coffee, and let's make a fuss until nightfall.
Another girl in her place would have long ago thought that somehow wrong lives. But Olya for many years not getting enough sleep, and think it has long disaccustomed. When Oli free fall half an hour, she pours herself another cup of some invigorating Burda and ... gets blunt. Watching TV, sticks to the Internet, simply by looking at the wall osolovevshimi eyes and riding in a circle empty thoughts.
From the side it seems that to get out of this vicious circle is very simple. You just have to take it a rule to dive under the covers at exactly midnight. A couple of weeks eight of sleep, and Olga will not learn. It will be quiet and good, stop barking at people and begin to keep up with everything.
But ... to the rhythm of the waltz to redo all the work necessary to make the eleven o'clock on a sour willpower. And in such an effort sleepy Olya, alas, is not capable of.
Sleepy Olga will spend several hours every day on all sorts of meaningless nonsense. Because these lost hours daily Olga will not go into twelve and two. And at eight in the morning - if you want or do not want - it will have to wake up sleepy and hooves to work.
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4. Expensive items
Gleb Scherblyunich not rich enough to buy cheap things. More precisely, he is not rich. Gleb - rogue, and the money he often does not even enough for a cup of steaming coffee in the machine on the floor below his office.
But to say "go to hell, it's too expensive for me," Hleb can not. Because of this, he always buys things at the sight of which even the much more secured rights to the throat immediately merge cold green tabs.
Leather jacket price of two salaries? I'm not rich enough to buy cheap things. And do not care that the size and style Hleb does not understand, because of what appears in this jacket as the son of a fence.
Laptop latest model for eighty thousand rubles? I'm not rich enough to buy cheap things. I'll take credit for the insane interest will be two years to eat porridge with salt and hare ride on the subway, but I will gather dust on a shelf beautiful silver laptop.
The question is, and what would not be Gleb more modest, and not buy their stuff a little worse, but ten times cheaper?
Yes, it's simple. Gleb lazy to spend three hours of time to posravnivat prices and features to calculate the pros and cons of buying. It is easier to cavalierly rubanut hand and say, "I decided to buy". In addition, despite the leaky boots and tape taped glasses, Gleb hesitate to inform the seller that he rogue.
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5. Repair
Claudia Zagrebryuk believes that an apartment in Russia too expensive. One Gd knows how much effort she and her family was worth this new two-bedroom apartment. Now Claudia makes repairs in the apartment.
Take, for example, the kitchen.
You can go to the hardware store and buy a very cheap kitchen, so eight thousand rubles. For the money Claudia received several poor lockers of chipboard, albeit without any claim to the design, but still able to keep inside the plates and pans.
You can go to the Swedes to IKEA and choose a longer something more decent, well over fifty thousand. Quality, of course, is not a fountain, but if you find a good collector, who spent a few days on the finishing products thrifty Swedes to mind, you get quite a nice even.
You can visit any of our furniture factory and choose from a catalog of kitchen order. This will be a thousand two hundred, but girlfriend Claudia will approvingly clicked their tongues at the sight of lighting inside the cabinets and sinusoidal cornice above the dust collecting decorative shelves.
You can go to the salon of Italian furniture and discreet charm of the bourgeoisie give in. The prices for food begin anywhere from one million, but if a little luck, you can grab something from the old collection at a huge discount ...
The question is, what chlorine Claudia bought the kitchen for six hundred thousand rubles? This is an annual (!) With her husband salary. Thus any savings in the family is not planned, and so they had to borrow to complete the repair for the winter.
No, I understand, a kitchen - this is important, the kitchen - it's a long time, Italy - is the quality ... But if Claudia could not in any way affect the price of the apartment, here at least the price of repair was in her power? That is serious, if Claudia spent on repairs than two million and two hundred thousand rubles - that saved three years of work does not pay off to her mental suffering on the type of cheap tiles and thin laminate?
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6. Nagging
Egor Oskopchik constantly tells a familiar story, one another just amazing. About the crisis. About some politotu rallies. Egor always on edge, he always someone wrong: that the chief, the policeman, the popularly elected president of the Russian Federation.
Of course, we live in a free country, and Egor has the right circle of friends obkladyvat genitals anyone ... but Egor constantly suffering because of other people's problems. Habit to go into other people's problems on a regular basis makes it feel oppressive powerlessness to realize that somewhere something bad, and he can not change anything.
If Yegor anyone explain that our world is not fair, and that the only way to make it better - start with yourself, Yegor probably would already have been on any managerial position. Brains and hands Yegor in place, the energy of it and rushing.
Here are just Yegor, unfortunately, prefers to spend his inexhaustible energy not being creative, and on conviction and punishment of people who - according to Yegor - misbehave.
Yegor considers itself well adapted to the life of man: he knows how to row and stand your ground, may on occasion even in the face to give. Friends also look at Yegor with ill-concealed pity. Since Egor constantly vlyapyvayutsya on level ground in the scandals, the fights, even in some ridiculous courts.
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7. Unwillingness to learn
Dasha Gundogubova spent ten years at school and six years at college. Scary count how many tens of thousands of hours she spent in dusty classrooms, intense listening to mournful mutter inarticulate teachers. Dasha is proud of its blue diploma and never misses an opportunity to brag loudest letters institution which she managed obsidet.
However, Dasha lazy to spend one day to learn how to work properly in Word. Because of this, it makes the documents three times longer than it should, and the documents obtained very ugly. Dasha does not see any problem. The authorities also considers unfair Dasha fool, and she pays twice less than the much less as the smartest Kate. So Kate, despite all its shortcomings, Ward did mastered at a decent level.
Dasha still lazy to spend a few nights to finish driving courses. Therefore, Dasha does not feel the size of their beautiful cars, parked 10 minutes where a skilled driver would be parked for a few seconds, and at least every six months falls into the absurdity of the accident.
To heap Dasha very tight opens the lock on the front door. Every evening Dasha long sherudit key in it, wincing at every sound in the front and pushing the key from different sides. In this case, spend five minutes of your time and find a solution on the Internet in the head Dasha does not even come.
Unfortunately, at the time of issue of the diploma Dasha forgot to say that the freebie is over, and that the duty to force myself to learn now entrusted to it personally.
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8. The ethanolic loop
Jura Skobleplyuhin periodically looks in the mirror and think that we ought to finally enroll in a gym: clean beer belly and vzbordrit muscle weights, dumbbells. However Jura works five days a week, and after work drinks a mug or two of diluted ethanol.
He was not an alcoholic: Jura believes that alcohol in small doses, if not useful, at least not particularly harmful.
However, the work and alcohol so well structured his time that enroll in a gym he strongly once, and exploits the labor force after the exploits of sports no longer remains.
Urgent reason to change the rhythm of his life in the Jura not. Just Jura looks fifteen years older than his age and always feels a bit nasty ... but overall everything is OK. Matrix keeps Yura steel grip. Chance to break from his throat her fingers in the Jura, frankly, a little bit.
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9. Bad teeth
Grisha Snegiryak did not suffer from toothache. He knows that he has a deep caries fourteen teeth ... but particularly now nothing hurts and visit to the dentist, like how you can put off.
Gregory understands that tooth decay - it's not cold, by itself it will not work. Gregory understands that to insert dentures - this long and painful, and expensive. Gregory understands that to delay the visit to the dentist is not necessary.
But he has now so many cases, and it is now urgent spending so much ... Well, cure Grisha now one tooth. And what will change? After all, remains thirteen patients.
Matrix rarely leaves his servants strength to take care of health. Matrix requires the first slaves to pay for her bills.
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10. Weddings and birthdays
Alice Skotinenok married. Alice works as an assistant manager, her choice - Junior Engineering Technical Support. Budget newly created family - forty thousand rubles a month.
Wedding budget - five hundred thousand.
Why not sign Alice quietly in the registry office and do not go to celebrate the exchange of rings, together with her husband in some quiet restaurant? Why it this petrosyanisty toastmaster why she these shameful contests why she this crowd of drunken rednecks, stomp their feet awkwardly under Verka Serduchka?
Why do I need to get into debt, ruin parents to feed and water the people who, let's face it, it is able to eat and drink at his own expense? Alice's not stupid and realizes that if she does not hold a wedding, no one on it and would pay attention: shrug and forget the next day.
Causes lower nowhere annual household income Alice two. Firstly, because it tells the Matrix in the face of our customs and traditions. Second, Alice wants to show off in a white dress and Alice thinks that year of two people - quite normal price for a few wedding photos.
Of course, advocates of a naive girl could say now that the wedding is a once in a life ... But there are birthdays, funerals, mark the New Year. How much money will be down Alisa annually at these gatherings stupid?
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11. incidentals
Bob Zhimobryuhov works plumber on call. There's a thousand, five hundred rubles here ... in general would have to get good earnings. However, more than a couple of thousand of John's wallet is not usually laps, he almost always broke.
Why?
Because Bob how to make money, so their spending and not considering. Five hundred rubles for a taxi home. Thousand rubles for lunch in the restaurant. Kind of like, work and work ... and no money is no.
If Bob got himself a notebook and began there to record all income and expenses, it would be horror stirred the hair on my ass. Bob would see, what to eat in the restaurant - it's not pathetic thousand at a time, he thought, and fifty thousand a month, six hundred thousand a year. Bob would see that the taxi - it is convenient and comfortable, but two months movements shuttles will allow him to buy a new computer, which he dreams of the past three years.
However, as befits a normal slave Matrix, count money Vasya not consider it necessary.
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12. Advertising
Lena Vurdalakina cola drinks, smokes Marlboro, Stimorol chewing and eating three throat gambugery at McDonald's. From it always smells Dolce Gabbana, and your iPhone is in the bag Lena from luivitton.
In this case Lena sure if advertising it has no effect, and a sick stomach and an empty wallet - it's her own choice.
Predatory snout on TV chorus support Lena in her naive delusion: "You free man, darling, you're intelligent and beautiful woman, you are always completely voluntary and independently choose whom of us you humbly Take it his next paycheck»
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Epilogue
1. Credit cards
Peter Klyushkin gets 30 thousand rubles a month. He also has several credit cards with a total debt of 100 thousand rubles. A service of this loan Peter monthly fee banks ten percent of his salary: three thousand.
An almost tithe. If Peter worship the golden calf, it would be possible, such a situation and would suit. However, Peter prays to other gods, and their banks quietly hates for monthly extortion.
At the same time gradually repay the loan and to pay tribute to the moneylenders stop Pete can not. First, it holds tight to the hook this technique as "minimum payment" if Peter will stop spending money with credit cards, it will have in a few months to live on half the salary, which he can not afford.
And secondly, there are so many temptations, so many things-that-can-buy-for-money ... that Peter sees no other option but to continue year after year to feed his trouble zhiruyuschie banks.
Fun fact: Peter has long been dreaming of owning your own business, and the profitability of thirty percent per annum over it would suit. However organize absolutely iron gesheft - to pay the debt and banks begin to put the interest on the loan in his pocket - Peter can not. Matrix will not allow.
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2. Cars
Kohl's Piglet loves cars. Before he went on the subway, then save money on the Lada. Now moves to borrow Lancer. He money to spare, often have to skimp on the most important, such as a vacation or doctors. But life without your car is no longer Kohl.
He should be given credit for a car, pay for vtyuhat dealer accessories and absurdly expensive insurance. He needs to solve a bunch of small problems with parking, with scratches, replacing consumables and warranty repairs. He needs time to change tires during the season and three times a week to fill yourself full tank.
Kohl, in principle, does not complain. Every single injection of money into the car quite posilen. That's only if Kohl carefully calculated cost of ownership of his treasure, he would have found that narrow-eyed chetverokolesny each month devour a third of his salary and half of his free time.
Kohl could buy instead Lancer good old Lada Chisel not to bother at all nor Hull nor rust / scratch, no expensive spare parts? To throw the car anywhere, and to be repaired for a small price in good service close to home, without paper fuss and no queues?
Probably could. But if you tell Cole that he chose not to machine level, Kohl's will not even send you in the ass with your advice. Kohl just do astonished eyes and shook his finger to his temple.
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3. The lack of sleep
Olya Golovolastnaya sleeps six hours a day. Sometimes - for five hours. Woke up, slammed coffee, and let's make a fuss until nightfall.
Another girl in her place would have long ago thought that somehow wrong lives. But Olya for many years not getting enough sleep, and think it has long disaccustomed. When Oli free fall half an hour, she pours herself another cup of some invigorating Burda and ... gets blunt. Watching TV, sticks to the Internet, simply by looking at the wall osolovevshimi eyes and riding in a circle empty thoughts.
From the side it seems that to get out of this vicious circle is very simple. You just have to take it a rule to dive under the covers at exactly midnight. A couple of weeks eight of sleep, and Olga will not learn. It will be quiet and good, stop barking at people and begin to keep up with everything.
But ... to the rhythm of the waltz to redo all the work necessary to make the eleven o'clock on a sour willpower. And in such an effort sleepy Olya, alas, is not capable of.
Sleepy Olga will spend several hours every day on all sorts of meaningless nonsense. Because these lost hours daily Olga will not go into twelve and two. And at eight in the morning - if you want or do not want - it will have to wake up sleepy and hooves to work.
***************
4. Expensive items
Gleb Scherblyunich not rich enough to buy cheap things. More precisely, he is not rich. Gleb - rogue, and the money he often does not even enough for a cup of steaming coffee in the machine on the floor below his office.
But to say "go to hell, it's too expensive for me," Hleb can not. Because of this, he always buys things at the sight of which even the much more secured rights to the throat immediately merge cold green tabs.
Leather jacket price of two salaries? I'm not rich enough to buy cheap things. And do not care that the size and style Hleb does not understand, because of what appears in this jacket as the son of a fence.
Laptop latest model for eighty thousand rubles? I'm not rich enough to buy cheap things. I'll take credit for the insane interest will be two years to eat porridge with salt and hare ride on the subway, but I will gather dust on a shelf beautiful silver laptop.
The question is, and what would not be Gleb more modest, and not buy their stuff a little worse, but ten times cheaper?
Yes, it's simple. Gleb lazy to spend three hours of time to posravnivat prices and features to calculate the pros and cons of buying. It is easier to cavalierly rubanut hand and say, "I decided to buy". In addition, despite the leaky boots and tape taped glasses, Gleb hesitate to inform the seller that he rogue.
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5. Repair
Claudia Zagrebryuk believes that an apartment in Russia too expensive. One Gd knows how much effort she and her family was worth this new two-bedroom apartment. Now Claudia makes repairs in the apartment.
Take, for example, the kitchen.
You can go to the hardware store and buy a very cheap kitchen, so eight thousand rubles. For the money Claudia received several poor lockers of chipboard, albeit without any claim to the design, but still able to keep inside the plates and pans.
You can go to the Swedes to IKEA and choose a longer something more decent, well over fifty thousand. Quality, of course, is not a fountain, but if you find a good collector, who spent a few days on the finishing products thrifty Swedes to mind, you get quite a nice even.
You can visit any of our furniture factory and choose from a catalog of kitchen order. This will be a thousand two hundred, but girlfriend Claudia will approvingly clicked their tongues at the sight of lighting inside the cabinets and sinusoidal cornice above the dust collecting decorative shelves.
You can go to the salon of Italian furniture and discreet charm of the bourgeoisie give in. The prices for food begin anywhere from one million, but if a little luck, you can grab something from the old collection at a huge discount ...
The question is, what chlorine Claudia bought the kitchen for six hundred thousand rubles? This is an annual (!) With her husband salary. Thus any savings in the family is not planned, and so they had to borrow to complete the repair for the winter.
No, I understand, a kitchen - this is important, the kitchen - it's a long time, Italy - is the quality ... But if Claudia could not in any way affect the price of the apartment, here at least the price of repair was in her power? That is serious, if Claudia spent on repairs than two million and two hundred thousand rubles - that saved three years of work does not pay off to her mental suffering on the type of cheap tiles and thin laminate?
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6. Nagging
Egor Oskopchik constantly tells a familiar story, one another just amazing. About the crisis. About some politotu rallies. Egor always on edge, he always someone wrong: that the chief, the policeman, the popularly elected president of the Russian Federation.
Of course, we live in a free country, and Egor has the right circle of friends obkladyvat genitals anyone ... but Egor constantly suffering because of other people's problems. Habit to go into other people's problems on a regular basis makes it feel oppressive powerlessness to realize that somewhere something bad, and he can not change anything.
If Yegor anyone explain that our world is not fair, and that the only way to make it better - start with yourself, Yegor probably would already have been on any managerial position. Brains and hands Yegor in place, the energy of it and rushing.
Here are just Yegor, unfortunately, prefers to spend his inexhaustible energy not being creative, and on conviction and punishment of people who - according to Yegor - misbehave.
Yegor considers itself well adapted to the life of man: he knows how to row and stand your ground, may on occasion even in the face to give. Friends also look at Yegor with ill-concealed pity. Since Egor constantly vlyapyvayutsya on level ground in the scandals, the fights, even in some ridiculous courts.
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7. Unwillingness to learn
Dasha Gundogubova spent ten years at school and six years at college. Scary count how many tens of thousands of hours she spent in dusty classrooms, intense listening to mournful mutter inarticulate teachers. Dasha is proud of its blue diploma and never misses an opportunity to brag loudest letters institution which she managed obsidet.
However, Dasha lazy to spend one day to learn how to work properly in Word. Because of this, it makes the documents three times longer than it should, and the documents obtained very ugly. Dasha does not see any problem. The authorities also considers unfair Dasha fool, and she pays twice less than the much less as the smartest Kate. So Kate, despite all its shortcomings, Ward did mastered at a decent level.
Dasha still lazy to spend a few nights to finish driving courses. Therefore, Dasha does not feel the size of their beautiful cars, parked 10 minutes where a skilled driver would be parked for a few seconds, and at least every six months falls into the absurdity of the accident.
To heap Dasha very tight opens the lock on the front door. Every evening Dasha long sherudit key in it, wincing at every sound in the front and pushing the key from different sides. In this case, spend five minutes of your time and find a solution on the Internet in the head Dasha does not even come.
Unfortunately, at the time of issue of the diploma Dasha forgot to say that the freebie is over, and that the duty to force myself to learn now entrusted to it personally.
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8. The ethanolic loop
Jura Skobleplyuhin periodically looks in the mirror and think that we ought to finally enroll in a gym: clean beer belly and vzbordrit muscle weights, dumbbells. However Jura works five days a week, and after work drinks a mug or two of diluted ethanol.
He was not an alcoholic: Jura believes that alcohol in small doses, if not useful, at least not particularly harmful.
However, the work and alcohol so well structured his time that enroll in a gym he strongly once, and exploits the labor force after the exploits of sports no longer remains.
Urgent reason to change the rhythm of his life in the Jura not. Just Jura looks fifteen years older than his age and always feels a bit nasty ... but overall everything is OK. Matrix keeps Yura steel grip. Chance to break from his throat her fingers in the Jura, frankly, a little bit.
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9. Bad teeth
Grisha Snegiryak did not suffer from toothache. He knows that he has a deep caries fourteen teeth ... but particularly now nothing hurts and visit to the dentist, like how you can put off.
Gregory understands that tooth decay - it's not cold, by itself it will not work. Gregory understands that to insert dentures - this long and painful, and expensive. Gregory understands that to delay the visit to the dentist is not necessary.
But he has now so many cases, and it is now urgent spending so much ... Well, cure Grisha now one tooth. And what will change? After all, remains thirteen patients.
Matrix rarely leaves his servants strength to take care of health. Matrix requires the first slaves to pay for her bills.
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10. Weddings and birthdays
Alice Skotinenok married. Alice works as an assistant manager, her choice - Junior Engineering Technical Support. Budget newly created family - forty thousand rubles a month.
Wedding budget - five hundred thousand.
Why not sign Alice quietly in the registry office and do not go to celebrate the exchange of rings, together with her husband in some quiet restaurant? Why it this petrosyanisty toastmaster why she these shameful contests why she this crowd of drunken rednecks, stomp their feet awkwardly under Verka Serduchka?
Why do I need to get into debt, ruin parents to feed and water the people who, let's face it, it is able to eat and drink at his own expense? Alice's not stupid and realizes that if she does not hold a wedding, no one on it and would pay attention: shrug and forget the next day.
Causes lower nowhere annual household income Alice two. Firstly, because it tells the Matrix in the face of our customs and traditions. Second, Alice wants to show off in a white dress and Alice thinks that year of two people - quite normal price for a few wedding photos.
Of course, advocates of a naive girl could say now that the wedding is a once in a life ... But there are birthdays, funerals, mark the New Year. How much money will be down Alisa annually at these gatherings stupid?
***************
11. incidentals
Bob Zhimobryuhov works plumber on call. There's a thousand, five hundred rubles here ... in general would have to get good earnings. However, more than a couple of thousand of John's wallet is not usually laps, he almost always broke.
Why?
Because Bob how to make money, so their spending and not considering. Five hundred rubles for a taxi home. Thousand rubles for lunch in the restaurant. Kind of like, work and work ... and no money is no.
If Bob got himself a notebook and began there to record all income and expenses, it would be horror stirred the hair on my ass. Bob would see, what to eat in the restaurant - it's not pathetic thousand at a time, he thought, and fifty thousand a month, six hundred thousand a year. Bob would see that the taxi - it is convenient and comfortable, but two months movements shuttles will allow him to buy a new computer, which he dreams of the past three years.
However, as befits a normal slave Matrix, count money Vasya not consider it necessary.
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12. Advertising
Lena Vurdalakina cola drinks, smokes Marlboro, Stimorol chewing and eating three throat gambugery at McDonald's. From it always smells Dolce Gabbana, and your iPhone is in the bag Lena from luivitton.
In this case Lena sure if advertising it has no effect, and a sick stomach and an empty wallet - it's her own choice.
Predatory snout on TV chorus support Lena in her naive delusion: "You free man, darling, you're intelligent and beautiful woman, you are always completely voluntary and independently choose whom of us you humbly Take it his next paycheck»
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Epilogue
