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Originally Posted by cantxsailor  Hey Gord thanks for the world financial education on what an evil "entitled" bastard I really am. Perhaps I should go cut my wrists.
Just to recap I own an old(31yrs)small boat. I don't/won't have any outside income and the $766 was the amount to get into the Galapagos not my monthly spending. It just seemed to me to be a bit steep for entry fee and the question was about wether or not I would be facing confiscation of my boat/home for HAVING to put for resupply for not having enough money as a slightly indigent traveller.
Since I don't live in some third world country where cost of living is low(relative to the US) based on the available income I AM poor in my own country.
I will excuse your snotty attitude because you're stuck ashore in that northern garden spot and having to live through your keyboard.
But if that is NOT your problem please feel to get stuffed...............m |
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Originally Posted by cantxsailor If by some chance I arrive at one of these places without(much/enough) any money what are the likely problems? If I have enough just for supplies and am just moving on? I can't imagine my few dollars is going to make or break an economy. Could my boat be taken? Me locked up or just told to leave the country? The humanitarian in me would think that there must be a work around for those of us who own a small boat and don't have much money. I could live at sea for a really long time on $766. Or do I just have suck it up and give over another place to those with the money?.............m |
I never intimated that you are evil, nor that you should cut your wrists.
I did suggest that you feel you are, somehow “special”, being “entitled” to a work around, due to your small boat & lack of money.
I should have merely answered your question, instead of trying to wake you up to some realities.
IMHO, yes - you should just suck it up and give over another place to those with the money to pay the fare, or earn enough to pay your way.
Or, you should just keep on doing what you have always done. Enjoy what you have, and don't worry about what you can't have, and be as happy as you can be until you die.
Or you could work until you’re 70, when, at the current rate of SS (if its still around), will pay you $293 a month, on top of whatever you can save over 20 more years.
Most of all, don’t get mad at the messenger who brings the sad, but true, news that poor people cannot enjoy all the costly things that rich people can afford.
My snotty attitude doesn’t derive from being stuck ashore in this northern garden spot, and having to live through my keyboard (all more or less true). It derives from hearing young (50 y/o) snots crying poverty, whilst planning a world cruise - and a certain amount of envy that you are only 50 years old, and contemplating a Pacific cruise.
Still unstuffed,
Gord