My Blogging Is Important? Okay, first of all, I did some checking and various muscle mags and muscle blogs linked to my Guide To Getting Huge (Pt II) articles. Some site called BirdFluBreakingNews.com linked to my Doomsday Predictions article. I can only guess that I'm moving up in the world and I will be getting my most recent article about economic trends (Yuppy Life) or my pointers on eliminating debt in some economics magazine.

The yuppie post definitely struck a nerve in lots of people, as it was my first post to get so many on-topic comments pretty much ever. In fact, the comments themselves nearly deserve their own post.

Here are some key comments:

...tremendous spike in the price of an inelastic good (gasoline) takes place. Individuals are forced to choose luxeries [sic].

I think people buy semi-luxury items because their friends buy semi-luxury items. It has become uncool to be thrifty, or just downright cheap.

What was the person's service worth in real world dollars?

if I were to order $500 worth of food...I wouldn't tip $100 and I wouldn't tip $20

Don't worry Dave I still think you're cheap

if it was true that waitressing was a more lucrative profession in the long-run, you would see more people stick with it rather than going to community/technical college's

I don't even know a Jew who'd have the balls to say that. So let's get this straight. You never ever tip?

If you're stuck in a minimum wage job, you need to suck it up, get some training

The T.I.P.S. (To Insure Proper Service) idea. If you paid money into that and you did NOT get proper service, then the insurance would pay out (most likely paying for your meal).

Minimum wage should at least follow the pattern of inflation

Let the markets set the wages.

I feel the value of college will dwindle vs its cost at some point unless things change

the social norm of a strict percentage of tipping: The more I ponder it the more I think it's a pretty stupid social norm

Look at any country where the "market" sets the wages and you will see that those employees make nothing as employers will use "desperation" to always find someone willing to accept a lower wage.

Obviously many of those points don't follow in a narrative order, but at minimum they presented lots of interesting concepts. The minimum wage arguments and the tipping arguments were my two favorite.  ¶ 10:59 AM