Expensive Is a Lazy Word
The Jesse Mecham Show
YNAB
4.7 • 1.1K Ratings
🗓️ 13 March 2023
⏱️ 3 minutes
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Summary
When people say "that's too expensive," what do they mean really? That they can't afford it, that it costs too much for a certain group of people, that it costs too much on principle? Jesse relates Rule One to the word "expensive" and concludes that its meaning is too slippery to be a useful term for people following the Four Rules.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello, whenever's my name is Jesse Mekum with another episode of the 1M podcast where we |
| 0:09.0 | teach you four rules to help you stop and bitch to paycheck, get out of debt and save |
| 0:13.2 | more money. |
| 0:16.8 | One of the rules we have is rule one. |
| 0:19.2 | You want to give every dollar a job and today I want to talk a little bit about those jobs |
| 0:23.3 | and expensive things. |
| 0:26.2 | We just got to realize that when someone says something is expensive, you have to ask |
| 0:34.3 | like 14 more questions to really figure out what they mean by that. |
| 0:38.7 | Expensive is a lazy word, so it's cheap. |
| 0:42.1 | It's just a lazy word. |
| 0:43.5 | So if someone says that's too expensive, what do they mean? |
| 0:46.7 | Do they mean they can't afford it, like it's not in the budget, it's not in the category. |
| 0:54.3 | They just don't have enough there. |
| 0:55.8 | Do they mean they sought for cheaper online? |
| 0:59.8 | Do they mean like from an ideal standpoint, like from a principled like almost moral standpoint? |
| 1:07.9 | No, one should never pay that much for that thing. |
| 1:11.9 | Who knows? |
| 1:12.9 | But I just want to point out to you that one person's expensive as another person's |
| 1:19.9 | just smoke and hot deal and it's up to you. |
| 1:25.3 | So you can't really let someone just say that's too expensive and you really can't let |
| 1:29.0 | yourself say just lazily, that's too expensive. |
| 1:32.9 | What do you mean? |
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