• Clent@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    Sometimes there’s days between it hitting the account and it being withdrawn for a bill pay.

    I’m making pennies on that sweet 0.0000001% interest, so I’m a capitalist too!

    – Perpetually embarrassed billionaire.

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    I have 7 accounts.

    It doesn’t change the incoming versus outgoing, but it does psychologically redistribute the pain. When you see $5 in “Long-term Savings” and $7 in “Short-term Savings”, feels a lot better than $12 in “Income”.

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      I use a similar system. I calculated about how much I usually need for bills and regular expenses and get it on one account, then another one for some extras and another where I try to save as much as possible. When I get a raise or a bonus I set it up for that account.

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      How far does that stubborness go? Like do you not write checks? Do you not use a credit/debit card? Cash only?

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        Fortunately, not that far. I’ll set up recurring payments through my bank website, where I’m the one in charge. I won’t give, say, the power company permission to make withdrawals from my account.

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          I still think about that person a few years ago that was charged millions of dollars in an “accounting error”, and the electric utility initially tried to withdraw it from her account and then tried to convince her to pay it

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      The reason why I will do not do SEPA and instead give them my PayPal instead.
      That way I get a full on notification in case someone withdraws anything from my account.

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      There are a lot of discounts that require auto withdrawal. $5 per bill, per month adds up quickly.

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    The slaves’ illusion of being free workers, since they are paid money for their work. They don’t realize that this money will be taken from them later. There is not so much difference with real slaves, they were not paid, but at least they were given room and board, while a worker does not have this when the bank takes away their home because they could not pay the mortgage. Human rights in this society are only applicable to those who have the money to pay for them, since capitalism has turned these rights into another commodity.

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    Isn’t this just implying you’re paycheck is just you billing yourself? The one portal leads to the other.

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      Don’t worry, I’m sure OP was thorough in their research

      Since the image shows Atlas and P-Body,q this implies that this is co-op instead of single player so the blue portal came from a purple-ish portal and the yellow portal would lead to a red portal

      Well done OP

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    That’s how I feel when my bank sends me a dividend deposit. It’s usually like 20 cents in a year because my account only really ever has money in it for 3-5 days a month.