{"id":32109,"date":"2015-07-24T03:00:33","date_gmt":"2015-07-24T07:00:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/?p=32109"},"modified":"2015-07-22T21:54:10","modified_gmt":"2015-07-23T01:54:10","slug":"good-advice-to-anyone-not-just-to-millennials","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/2015\/07\/24\/good-advice-to-anyone-not-just-to-millennials\/","title":{"rendered":"Good advice to anyone, not just to Millennials"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/takimag.com\/article\/dont_sup_with_a_fup_john_derbyshire\" target=\"_blank\">John Derbyshire<\/a> proffers a bit of useful advice:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Here\u2019s this week\u2019s precept:<\/p>\n<div align=\"center\"><em>Avoid fucked-up people.<\/em><\/div>\n<p>Most citizens of a functioning society live in a bourgeois style. They obey the law, keep regular hours, and brush their teeth. They get as much education as they can tolerate, acquire a marketable skill, work, marry, raise kids, and keep their debts under control.<\/p>\n<p>The people I\u2019m advising you to avoid, the fucked-up people \u2014 hereinafter FUPs \u2014 are the others. You\u2019ve met them, or will: the drunks and moochers, the losers and dropouts, the profligates and unemployables. They will at best waste your time, at worst drag you down (?) into fucked-uppery.<\/p>\n<p>I\u2019ve known more than my share of FUPs across the decades. At least 20 come easily to mind. Expat life is particularly rich with them. FUPs must have cost me hundreds in current U.S. dollars, though most of it in my younger, more empathetic and gullible years.<\/p>\n<p>And I\u2019ve gotten off lightly. A friend of mine inherited a modest fortune from his father. His FUP brother co-inherited but soon frittered away his share and came to my friend for help, arguing that blood is thicker than water. My friend estimates the cost of testing those relative viscosities at $2 million over several years.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>John Derbyshire proffers a bit of useful advice: Here\u2019s this week\u2019s precept: Avoid fucked-up people. Most citizens of a functioning society live in a bourgeois style. They obey the law, keep regular hours, and brush their teeth. They get as much education as they can tolerate, acquire a marketable skill, work, marry, raise kids, and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[73],"tags":[956],"class_list":["post-32109","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-randomness","tag-millennials"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2hpV6-8lT","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32109","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=32109"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32109\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":32110,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32109\/revisions\/32110"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=32109"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=32109"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=32109"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}