a hard or soft option

[thene]

the finance industry is really just the terminal form of consumer culture, where your cache is determined solely by how much money you have to throw at brand-name trend items. It's one of the two reasons I keep looping West End Girls; if, when, where, what. I'm not detached from it in any way - total sucker here for the moneyceleb circus, at least within in the 9-5 coma where I am getting paid. But what I've not yet shaken off is that guilty feeling regarding relationship-forming. I still get flashes of pain whenever someone is nice to me on the phone, especially if they're one of the rare ones who're chasing something other than money.

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My relationship with the phone deserves a long distance blog. Let's say, I could never work in a call centre.

Being skint makes me hate material generosity - because I know I can't repay it, and you get tired of constantly taking.

I don't swing between brand names and that would make me horribly uncomfortable.

I'm beginning to accept I might have to understand money well enough to produce some; if I'd had savings, I would have invested in Royal Mail shares.

[thene]

I'm not sure, because there's clearly this fuzzy high end where people produce money solely by not knowing anything about how much anything is worth. This is some combination of sorcery and wilful delusion.

By 'brand names' I was really talking about investment bubbles.