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Comment by bradknowles | Hacker News Reader

Do you have to eat?

Do you have to have a place to sleep?

Seems to me like making a reasonable amount of money to help towards these goals is not an unreasonable thing to hope for. But maybe you can prove me wrong?

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I chastised a friend for getting so upset after losing half a dozen travelers checks on vacation. Get a grip — it’s $2 worth of paper. If you can’t afford to replace that you can’t afford to be on vacation.

For me, I think the concern with Travelers Checks is the potential loss of money from your account, if someone is able to forge your signature on them, and how that might potentially be used to tie you to other events or crimes that may have occurred.

It was a joke. Travelers checks aren’t like regular checks — they’re more like cashier’s checks or money orders. Losing them is a very big problem.

Oh, sorry. I guess it's been about twenty or thirty years since I used them.

Thanks for the clarification!

Yeah. I dated myself with that reference.

Oh sorry sometimes I forget most people live in wage slavery.

I'm genuinely confused by this. Are you saying that you shouldn't have to worry about eating and living indoors? Or are you saying that you literally forget people have to pay for those things? Can you please explain what you mean?

My society provides free food and housing to everyone. Funny enough I literally forgot that's not universal (yet).

Your society?

The Republic of Finland.

Also free health care, electricity, water, and Internet.

You shouldn’t be selling your game for 50c if you expect to live off it so the calculation is even more off.

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