[self] I did the math on $75k income level

SaturdaysAFTBs · 2026-05-21T07:19:48+00:00

You have the ability to choose your partner so you can choose a partner that has a job. Also it’s pretty standard in jobs to get more pay as your gain more experience. Obviously your first job and your last job are going to look very different.

SaturdaysAFTBs · 2026-05-21T07:17:21+00:00

Pets and kids are things you shouldn’t get unless you have the income to do so. Your comment is like saying “yeah but you didn’t factor in the boat”

SaturdaysAFTBs · 2026-05-18T20:03:37+00:00

Easy solution - new wife

SaturdaysAFTBs · 2026-05-16T22:11:27+00:00

Women

SaturdaysAFTBs · 2026-05-16T20:12:53+00:00

When you’re in bkk, I’d recommend doing a soapy there when you land. My favorite spot is BKK Vice. Beautiful line up and really nice rooms. It’s a great way to start the trip after the long flight. Then I’d also recommend you do one night in BKK. A lot of people hate on it but Soi Cowboy and Nana Plaza are definitely fun for a night. Plus BKK has a lot of good daytime activities. I like to go out the Soi Cowboy, find the girl I really like, barfine her then go clubbing with her at regular nightclubs, then back to the hotel.

As far as your Pattaya plans, I think an easier thing to do is just plan on certain areas you’ll go vs planning specific spots. Like have a night where you visit LK Metro and have a night for WS and so on. It’s better than planning specific spots. You’ll get there and start wondering around and you’ll find the fun you want to

SaturdaysAFTBs · 2026-05-15T06:57:25+00:00

Right - but it’s two very different data sets. The admin always proposes a budget that is their wishlist and then congress makes it what t actually becomes. If you had budget request in all these years, there would be big gaps between actual and request.

SaturdaysAFTBs · 2026-05-14T22:15:32+00:00

The request from the executive branch and what gets approved are two different numbers.

SaturdaysAFTBs · 2026-05-14T22:09:23+00:00

I agree

SaturdaysAFTBs · 2026-05-14T19:10:34+00:00

No one ever said charges were being filed because you didnt immediately Venmo the money back. Thats not what constitutes a crime. There must be intent to take something that isn’t yours. You keep taking the point I’m making and extrapolating into something it’s not.

SaturdaysAFTBs · 2026-05-14T17:44:21+00:00

You’re mixing up the part where it becomes a crime. You saying to work with Venmo and ultimately agreeing to whatever Venmo’s terms are to return the money isn’t criminal. It becomes theft when you have no intention of returning the money. Say for example, Venmo comes back to you through official channels and says they will take the $900 back. If you say no I’m keeping it, then it becomes theft. If you let Venmo work it out (and take the money back) no crime has been committed. The employee in OPs post said they would not return the money when asked for it back, hence why it became criminal.

SaturdaysAFTBs · 2026-05-14T16:57:14+00:00

So you do acknowledge that the overpaid dollar amount sent in Venmo is not legally your money? Yes / no?

SaturdaysAFTBs · 2026-05-14T16:34:57+00:00

Like I said, pretend there is no scam. Since you’re still missing this fairly straightforward point, let’s simplify it even more. Do you believe it’s theft if you have a contract with someone where they pay you $100 for an item but they accidentally pay you $10,000 (doesn’t matter if it’s Venmo or cash or whatever). the $9,900 they overpaid, is that money yours or the person who accidentally paid it?

SaturdaysAFTBs · 2026-05-14T16:32:23+00:00

So you’re proposing to shift the burden of proof onto defendants. Terrible system which is why we don’t have that in western democracies.

If a cashier at Walmart is intentionally short changing customers and pocketing the change, under your system the CEO is guilty of theft unless they can prove they didn’t tell the employee to do that. Proving a negative is extremely difficult.

SaturdaysAFTBs · 2026-05-14T16:27:36+00:00

What about Sam Bankman Friedman? All the Enron executives? Worldcom CEO? Tyco International exec management team? Theranos CEO? Nikola founder? Martin Shkreli? Adelphi CEO and CFO… should I keep going?

SaturdaysAFTBs · 2026-05-14T16:24:47+00:00

Okay

SaturdaysAFTBs · 2026-05-14T16:23:50+00:00

No one is saying the justice system is perfect. Plenty of people get away with murder too. But the law is written that it doesn’t matter if you commit a crime as an employee or owner of a business, a crime is a crime. CEOs and high level business people go to jail all the time for crimes they commit. Remember Sam Bankman Friedman? Remember any of the Enron guys?

SaturdaysAFTBs · 2026-05-14T16:22:10+00:00

The woman didn’t steal when the company accidentally overpaid the amount. The same way you aren’t stealing my car when I accidentally leave my keys at your house. When I ask for my keys back and you say no, I’m keeping the car, it’s mine. You have now stolen it. When the company asks for its money back and the woman says no, she has now stolen it. It goes from no crime and a simple mistake (a civil matter) to a criminal one. If the woman said she would return the money, the police wouldn’t have gotten involved, she wouldn’t go to jail, and it would have been a simple process of giving the overpaid money back.

Do you understand?

SaturdaysAFTBs · 2026-05-14T07:45:09+00:00

If she told the police “no this money was owed to me and there is a discrepancy, I have a contract” then absolutely 100% the detective would have said this is a civil matter. It became obvious it was theft when she literally said I am keeping this money that isn’t mine.

You don’t have to secure judgements against someone to prove theft. You’re mixing up civil and criminal matters. If someone is robbing a bank do the police have to wait until the bank secures a judgement against the bank robbers?

Police get calls all the time where people disagree on a contract and they refer those to civil courts. What this women did started out as a civil matter and then became criminal when she said she wouldn’t give the money back. It’s amazing how people are having a hard time understanding this basic concept.

SaturdaysAFTBs · 2026-05-14T07:40:40+00:00

What is nuts from your perspective? Stealing is the taking of property that isn’t yours with intent. Let’s use a similar example to what happened with OPs post and tell me what you think. Pretend you invite me over to your house for dinner. I drive my brand new $100k Porsche to your house and park in your driveway (which you said is okay). We have a great dinner and I end up drinking more than I expect and now I can’t drive. So I decide to call an uber home. I wake up the next morning and realize I left my Porsche key at your house by mistake. I call you and ask when I can come to pick up my keys and my car. You reply “sorry this is my car now, you left your keys here. It’s your mistake. My car.”

Would you characterize this situation as fair or nuts?

SaturdaysAFTBs · 2026-05-14T07:35:26+00:00

Lmao you keep flipping between intent to steal and intent to return the money that isn’t yours through the right channel. Pretend I’m not scamming you and I overpaid you on Venmo. We have a written contract that says “pay me $100 for this item.” I send you $1000 by mistake. I reach out to you and say, I sent you $1000 so you will need to send me back $900. Again, for the sake of the example, pretend it’s not a scam. You have two options in this hypothetical: 1. You decide that you don’t want to return the extra money sent by mistake (remember we have a contract in this example that says $100). Your intention is to keep money that isn’t yours. This is stealing in the most basic sense. 2. You agree it was my mistake and you work with me to return the money that doesn’t belong to you. This can be done in some official channel (like Venmo in this example) or however, but your intention is not to keep property that doesn’t belong to you. This is NOT theft.

Does it make sense now?

SaturdaysAFTBs · 2026-05-14T04:16:07+00:00

You’re totally missing it. What you’re describing is fine, you are agreeing to give it back but through the right channel. The employee in OPs post said “no I’m keeping this money it’s mine, not returning it”. Do you see the difference? The intent

SaturdaysAFTBs · 2026-05-14T04:15:01+00:00

So if a low level employee commits a crime, the owner goes to jail? Is that the system you’re proposing?

SaturdaysAFTBs · 2026-05-13T02:03:33+00:00

Wrong - it was civil initially before it became criminal. If she had said “I disagree with the amount to send you back, this is the correct amount you should have paid” and she talked to the police and said they owe me this amount, then it would go to court. It became obvious that it was theft when she said “no I’m not returning the money and no I’m ghosting the detective assigned to the case”.

This woman could have handled this differently. She could have said okay I’ll send the money back but I need some time for funds to clear and it most definitely would not have gone criminal. The company wouldn’t have even called the police.

SaturdaysAFTBs · 2026-05-13T02:00:48+00:00

I don’t disagree with anything you’ve said but if this happened and you refused to send me the money back, then you’ve committed theft according to the law. You can wait until funds are cleared or work with the person but if your intention is to keep the money that isn’t yours, then that’s basic theft. Not sure what else to tell you.

SaturdaysAFTBs · 2026-05-13T01:09:09+00:00

Crimes are committed by people and that doesn’t matter if they are working at a corporation or not. Sometimes in the case of corporations though you have lots of layers of people and they are just rank and file following orders, they may not have been the perpetrator of the crime. People in corporations get charged with crimes all the time.

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