@Newdude you were the exception to my earlier statement.
I won't judge or condemn.
I judged you and hit you with the mallet.
I legitimately don't condemn debt for or from others, or folks that use it. Not only because that's shallow, but because I recognize it can be useful. I was more interested in understanding the rationale in this case, and hoped to reaffirm it comes with a level of risk on top of the pleasure of paying to access that money.
In your particular case, my highly risk-averse shoulder angel asks me what would I have done if the financial uncertainties became certainly awful. If I could live with that worst case by determining that the payment costs were not detrimental to my financial momentum, and were worth the personal gains in memories or similar, I would have been convinced it was feasible and possibly even a smart maneuver.
My problem is, that angel has twin. And he lives on the other side. And not only does he look the same, he sounds the same.
I have several in my expanded social circle who have played the finance game differently than I have. Some of them have done well and yet others, who for all intents and purposes were better equipped to achieve that same result, I employed at one time or another in their absence of alternatives.
Debt can have different teeth and hidden limbs depending on the area it's implemented. I guess I'm the type that sees the fangs and says, no thanks.
But many have tamed it and enjoy the pet tiger.
Until it eats them in their sleep.
Sorry
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I'm noticing I can't extoll without making jokes. I guess that's more telling than anything else.