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by Codhisattva 4046 days ago
These questions are so heavily stilted towards white male start up culture it's laughable.
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kefka 4046 days ago
I noticed that. The question "if you got 100K for saving lil old woman", my choice wasn't there.

Pay my debts.

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tsmith 4046 days ago
Also missing: put it in the bank (i.e. do nothing).

The answers to the "greatest satisfaction" question are also telling. They are all job/business related. There's not even a single "spend time with my friends and family" catch-all.

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Codhisattva 4046 days ago
Yeah. Where's the "travel the world and live in a tent" option. My soul mate is definitely out there in a tent with mad cash in the bank watching a sunset from a mountain top.

Sigh

We'll never find each other unless s/he wanders into an internet cafe tomorrow before this rolls off of front page of HN...

Hurry soul mate! HURRY down the mountain!

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kefka 4045 days ago
You cam make up whatever hair-brained scenarios you want, but 1 in 3 people in the US have debts in collections. Or 77 million people.

Source: http://money.cnn.com/2014/07/29/pf/debt-collections/

So yes, "Pay off debts" is plenty sane, and yet not on there. And given the existing potential answers, gives credence that this is for rich white boys financed by rich mommy and daddy.

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