There is so much excess money floating in the economy at the moment. Its insane.
People emboldened by market and housing gains have to been spending ridiculous amounts of money like there is no tomorrow. Layoffs have been limited to tech.
Really disappointing takes in here.
Considering it's a literal once-in-a-lifetime experience for many people, and the scientific nature of said experience, I assumed people would be a little more open-minded.
Some things in life are worth paying for. Seeing an eclipse in totality is one of (many) of them
Only halfway related because it's travel, but I wonder what the eclipse will do for operations at DFW.
This means the economy is doing fantastic if they still $ for useless stuff.
I don't understand the efforts I'm seeing people in Boston go to. We'll see it 94% obscured, meanwhile people are taking days off work and spending $$ to get to 99.9%. Then again I've never been a vacation person.
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As of this moment 100% of comments have to do with “I guess other people have a lot of money”. Very weird thing to be concerned about.
Personally I didn’t care about the eclipse until recently. Then I realized then when the next one happens in North America, my son will be in his 20s and I will be in my 60s. I got the idea that it will be cool to (G-d willing) see that one together and remember how we saw this one together 20 years earlier.
It happened to be that we had family we can stay with in the path of totality but even if it cost me an extra few hundred to do this, I would find it a good use of funds.