I had a stripper that I know pretty well come up to me today to show me her new cell phone. She said it cost $800. I dunno. That just seems like too much money to spend on a phone. I know she is getting food stamps too.
It's considered a basic necessity now. However I only spent a little over 200 for my phone. I read average Americans live better than kings from 100 years ago. They had no air conditioning, no cars, no radios, no phones and probably no showers, just bath water and straw beds. I prefer everything I have now over what they had.
Having the newest and latest cell phone is very, very low on my priority list, I still have the iPhone 5 (and I love it) and I won't stop using it until it stops working
Perhaps that was the original price. I know most phone companies will give a huge price reduction if you sign up for a 2 year contract. I know my phone company keeps sending me emails stating I can upgrade and "lease" a new phone for so much money a month.
On the other hand, I know a dancer who works at...kind of a dive club here in the midwest...and she has told me multiple times she makes around $500 a night...and a little more on the weekends.
All the newest bestest phones cost around there. The $800 is amortized over 24 months, so not quite as bad as you think, just $33/month, if you're the type to think in terms of payments
The Samsung Galaxy S7 that I bought last summer cost $700, which I'm paying off at about $30 a month for 24 months. I think that's a pretty normal price for a smartphone these days.
My iPhone 7 cost $750. Strippers deserve the best. The fact that she's getting food stamps is one of the reasons she can afford a $800 phone. It also helps that she doesn't pay income tax. If she has kids, she gets a tax refund thru the earned income credit.
It's called the underground economy. Get paid in cash, pay your bills in cash and money orders, declare no income for taxes, file for welfare benefits. Life is grand.
do any of you really believe that her $800 phone was spent with 'extra money'?
the reason most of them are in the club is that they have a messed up sense of priorities.
most would rather spend their money on a new phone, a new tattoo, an impractical over-priced car, a $2000/month high-rise apartment, an expensive present for their deadbeat boyfriend/baby daddy, or a $200 new outfit, rather than pay their bills, or save their money.
that phone will end up broken, lost, thrown in the toilet by her kid, or shut off within the next 45 days.
it's the sad truth of world of dancers and especially the millennial generation.
To answer a couple of questions. It was an Iphone7. She is married and has 2 kids. Is going to cosmetology school. I know that to be true because I know another stripper at the same club that goes to school with her.
@shadow Ahh, my new school girl friend! I'm probably one of the investors in that new phone.
Maybe now she'll let me give her my number so I can find out when she's working, instead of playing "stripper roulette" and risk a wasted afternoon finding out no one good is at work that day.
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Shadow....what phone was it?
On the other hand, I know a dancer who works at...kind of a dive club here in the midwest...and she has told me multiple times she makes around $500 a night...and a little more on the weekends.
'course, indymovieman thinks mobile phone companies still do 2 year contracts, so it might be catching :) :)
For me I can wait. I usually stay a few years behind and buy the technology when it's more affordable like $100
the reason most of them are in the club is that they have a messed up sense of priorities.
most would rather spend their money on a new phone, a new tattoo, an impractical over-priced car, a $2000/month high-rise apartment, an expensive present for their deadbeat boyfriend/baby daddy, or a $200 new outfit, rather than pay their bills, or save their money.
that phone will end up broken, lost, thrown in the toilet by her kid, or shut off within the next 45 days.
it's the sad truth of world of dancers and especially the millennial generation.
Maybe now she'll let me give her my number so I can find out when she's working, instead of playing "stripper roulette" and risk a wasted afternoon finding out no one good is at work that day.