This planet has - or rather had - a problem, which was this: most of the people living on it were unhappy for pretty much of the time. Many solutions were suggested for this problem, but most of these were largely concerned with the movement of small green pieces of paper, which was odd because on the whole it wasn't the small green pieces of paper that were unhappy.Douglas Adams, The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy
FYI, if you use code format instead of the quote, the entire text in the box is displayed in one line, so people reading it have to scroll the tiny box horizontally - and in my case when I’m trying to do that on desktop, the scroll bar obscures most of the text:
with quote formatting the text wraps lines when necessary:
This planet has - or rather had - a problem, which was this: most of the people living on it were unhappy for pretty much of the time. Many solutions were suggested for this problem, but most of these were largely concerned with the movement of small green pieces of paper, which was odd because on the whole it wasn’t the small green pieces of paper that were unhappy.
Where the fuck is this??
I live in one of the most expensive places on earth (Switzerland), and I’ll spend 2.50 on a coffee and 300 on a phone every 6-7 years.
How the hell do people afford 7 buck coffees and 1k phones???
It’s this much in the Seattle area sometimes, so that’s one possibility. It’s insane and I barely ever get any anymore.
let’s just say this person isn’t in the lower class
How is that a coffee?
That’s like the rich ppl expensive sugar drink no? Is that what americans call coffee?
Where I live u easily pay 10usd for those drinks.
By coffee I mean a mug. (With maybe milk and sugar).
Anything to fill the void
7 bucks for a coffee?! You’re paying too much for a coffee, who’s your coffee guy?
i mean this person is also paying $1000 for a phone so that explains a lot
$7 coffee?
Is this c/richpeopletwitter?
Inflation has hit coffee hard. A black coffee is like 3 dollars most places.
How much is cocaine?
Actual happiness always looks pretty squalid in comparison with the over-compensations for misery.
