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It often works that way. Look at lottery winners and NFL players who end up broke as fuck overnight.
Anecdote: Knew a guy who scored a cool $1,000,000 off the VA for a testicular cancer misdiagnosis. Somehow blew every penny in 12-months, lost it all, ended up worse off. And promptly died.
This'll trip everyone up. Paying more does not lead to better outcomes. Y'all should love it. If you read between the lines, there's a lot of Linux culture in there. Explains much of what I've seen IRL.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u6XAPnuFjJc&t=1s
"Lottery Winners and NFL Players" You mean it works that way often for the 1% of the 1%? Wtf are you even saying? Are you a bot or is chatGPT writing this for you? You don't think that paying more to the 80% of Americans that live PAYCHECK TO PAYCHECK is going to be a good thing for them? Do you really think that not fearing homelessness is actually gonna make them sadder? Lol.
I hope you're trolling and not really so sadly blind to the reality world you live in.