GoFundMe Generation

This is where our community discusses almost anything! While we're mainly a Cambodia expat discussion forum and talk about expat life here, we debate about almost everything. Even if you're a tourist passing through Southeast Asia and want to connect with expatriates living and working in Cambodia, this is the first section of our site that you should check out. Our members start their own discussions or post links to other blogs and/or news articles they find interesting and want to chat about. So join in the fun and start new topics, or feel free to comment on anything our community members have already started! We also have some Khmer members here as well, but English is the main language used on CEO. You're welcome to have a look around, and if you decide you want to participate, you can become a part our international expat community by signing up for a free account.
k*rm*geddon
Expatriate
Posts: 127
Joined: Thu Jan 11, 2018 7:57 am
Reputation: 75
New Zealand

Re: GoFundMe Generation

Post by k*rm*geddon »

^^^ The cost of housing relative to average income has gone haywire.
New Zealand is one of the more catastrophic examples. The country's population explosion of the last decade has left NZ 130,000 houses short of what is needed.
The mass of the relentless yearly migration gains of 50,000 or so, peaking at 70,000 a few years back, are new immigrants.
With migration levels outpacing construction, prices and rents will remain at crippling levels.

Apparently, as a non-American, I am not supposed to comment on that country. However, some here qualify to do so. Perhaps one of them could explain how and where this year's influx of many hundreds of thousands of illegals into the US will be housed.
MY 99 CENT KINDLE: ... 1974 TRAVEL IN THAILAND, CAMBODIA AND SOUTH VIETNAM : http://www.amazon.co.uk/EXPLAINING-CAMB ... B00L0LC8TO
User avatar
frank lee bent
Expatriate
Posts: 11330
Joined: Sat May 17, 2014 4:10 am
Reputation: 2094
United States of America

Re: GoFundMe Generation

Post by frank lee bent »

We will send them to the USSRNZ.

Our fearful leader here has just ordered that no further refugee applications will be accepted from those passing through intermediary countries prior to trying to enter USA.

This is in line with UNHCR conventions and should satisfy the chicken Hawks who have so many opinions on the conduct of US military operations yet never served in their own armed forces.
PIEMAN
Expatriate
Posts: 733
Joined: Fri Jul 07, 2017 10:56 am
Reputation: 216
Cambodia

Re: GoFundMe Generation

Post by PIEMAN »

:evil: im thinking of starting a gofundme page to keep me in beer for the next yr.Around 5k will do :beer3:
Meat pie Sausage Roll come on Rovers score a goal.
https://www.facebook.com/Pieman-Phnom-P ... 711967235/
User avatar
frank lee bent
Expatriate
Posts: 11330
Joined: Sat May 17, 2014 4:10 am
Reputation: 2094
United States of America

Re: GoFundMe Generation

Post by frank lee bent »

27 beers a day at the mini mart
User avatar
John Bingham
Expatriate
Posts: 13674
Joined: Sun Dec 07, 2014 11:26 pm
Reputation: 8892
Cambodia

Re: GoFundMe Generation

Post by John Bingham »

k*rm*geddon wrote: Fri Jul 19, 2019 1:01 am ^^^ The cost of housing relative to average income has gone haywire.
New Zealand is one of the more catastrophic examples. The country's population explosion of the last decade has left NZ 130,000 houses short of what is needed.
The mass of the relentless yearly migration gains of 50,000 or so, peaking at 70,000 a few years back, are new immigrants.
With migration levels outpacing construction, prices and rents will remain at crippling levels.
That's what you get for being commies. Build a wall. :BangHead:
Silence, exile, and cunning.
User avatar
frank lee bent
Expatriate
Posts: 11330
Joined: Sat May 17, 2014 4:10 am
Reputation: 2094
United States of America

Re: GoFundMe Generation

Post by frank lee bent »

Petition the Fuhrer for protection from the evil lefties.
Or go back to Scotland.
Image
User avatar
newkidontheblock
Expatriate
Posts: 4424
Joined: Tue May 20, 2014 3:51 am
Reputation: 1545

Re: GoFundMe Generation

Post by newkidontheblock »

The begpackers, gofundnme, etc., I don’t mind. Because I have the choice to give money to them or not. When these loonies control the government and pass laws to have the government take money from me to fund their begpacking, gofundme, and other loonie ideas, that’s where my dander goes up.

The official title of Nazi was national socialists. Yet socialists decry all that oppose them as Nazis.

I don’t get it.
User avatar
Yerg
Expatriate
Posts: 1462
Joined: Thu Apr 11, 2019 3:41 pm
Reputation: 1170
Location: Kent, UK
Great Britain

Re: GoFundMe Generation

Post by Yerg »

I suppose I stayed quiet from the start of this thread. I did so deliberately. My point, more than anything, was that the route to trying to get what people want, was to get others to pay for it.

One or two posters made a very credible response regarding healthcare and emergency medical treatment. I'll admit, I hadn't really thought that part through. Nonetheless, If we make exceptions for those (and I in no way undermine their cases), my point was always about those that don't want to work, or earn, their way in life.

Perhaps I am too simplistic. Perhaps I am too old too really understand. Who knows?

My position remains the same. Get off your fat ass, get a job, go earn the money you need. Then take a life break. I've worked for 35 years. I earned the right to take a break and judge everyone around me. Cambodia or otherwise, I earned it.
Multipox
Expatriate
Posts: 430
Joined: Mon Mar 26, 2018 9:20 pm
Reputation: 80
Andorra

Re: GoFundMe Generation

Post by Multipox »

Yerg wrote: Wed Jul 17, 2019 2:40 am ....The whole concept of asking others to pay for things that you don't have the money to pay for yourself.

Now, call me old-fashioned, however I was always brought up on the principal that if you couldn't afford it, you don't buy it. Perhaps I'm now considered a dinosaur on this score, but what are the views of the balance of the community on this?

....
Then of course you are unfamiliar with angel investing or venture capitalism in which moneyed interests are approached to fund startups.

And would also be unfamiliar with bank loans to both businesses ("commercial paper) and to individuals (eg mortgages).

You would also be unfamiliar with the concepts of financing for eg car purchaes and credit cards both of which are loans.

And you would be unfamiliar with the idea of selling shares in a company (aka capitalism) in order to raise money for expansion.
When I need advice about life, I just check in here.
User avatar
Yerg
Expatriate
Posts: 1462
Joined: Thu Apr 11, 2019 3:41 pm
Reputation: 1170
Location: Kent, UK
Great Britain

Re: GoFundMe Generation

Post by Yerg »

Multipox wrote: Tue Dec 17, 2019 9:10 pm
Yerg wrote: Wed Jul 17, 2019 2:40 am ....The whole concept of asking others to pay for things that you don't have the money to pay for yourself.

Now, call me old-fashioned, however I was always brought up on the principal that if you couldn't afford it, you don't buy it. Perhaps I'm now considered a dinosaur on this score, but what are the views of the balance of the community on this?

....
Then of course you are unfamiliar with angel investing or venture capitalism in which moneyed interests are approached to fund startups.

And would also be unfamiliar with bank loans to both businesses ("commercial paper) and to individuals (eg mortgages).

You would also be unfamiliar with the concepts of financing for eg car purchaes and credit cards both of which are loans.

And you would be unfamiliar with the idea of selling shares in a company (aka capitalism) in order to raise money for expansion.
That's a little shallow Multi. Of course I am familiar with all of them. Investing is a risk-based business that might see a return on said investment. It also might not, but the investor knows that. Blithely handing someone money through GFM is not a flaming investment. :facepalm:

Bank loans to businesses, I am familiar with also. And they are often secured against some type of collateral. Quite often, small or start-up business directors will secure said loans against their personal property. These loans are not just handed over willy-nilly, with the borrower expected to... Wait, that's right, a borrower. Someone who is risked as someone who might just pay some or all of it back, with interest. Is GFM a loan that will be repaid in full with interest, with relevant credit checks and risk assessment? No, it's some freeloader not prepared or unable to do the hard yards themselves.

And financing for a car. That's right. Also secured against the collateral of the car. Don't pay, lose the car.

Shares... Yes, they too are a risk, and come with potential reward. No guarantees, but at least the hope that you luck-in on one of them.

Have I made enough holes in your argument for you yet, or should we continue?
Post Reply Previous topicNext topic
  • Similar Topics
    Replies
    Views
    Last post

Who is online

Users browsing this forum: Ong Tay and 1586 guests