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Originally Posted by Für Elise
I don't really know what is being argued here but did you relate her situation to the everyman working a day job situation? I work in order to pay my bills and in twenty years I'll probably be working to secure my future financially and support kids if that's what happens but I doubt Stevies big solo career was all about making sure she is able to retire. Maybe it was about her version of retirement which includes a lot more excesses which makes her situation not relevant to the comparison being made. She is different to most.
If she's in this situation then the average person is up **** creek when it comes to finances. She's not royalty collecting our taxes til she dies but come on, she lives far more excessively than us and it's not about if she can afford to be housed, fed and able to retire, it's if she can afford to that with great comfort.
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I thought it was implied that I'm speaking comparatively.
Certainly she lives more extravagantly than any of us here, but don't we all work hard in order to maintain whatever lifestyle
we're living? Those who have a house work hard in order to pay their mortgage so they don't lose that house. Those who rent work hard so they won't get evicted.
And don't we all work so that we can retire "comfortably"... whatever our definition of "comfortable" may be?
A huge amount of what Stevie earned in the '70s and '80s went up her nose. It's gone. She has often said they probably could have cured leukemia by now with the money she wasted on drugs.
So she's living on what she's earned in recent years... not on what she made off of 'Rumours' or 'Bella Donna.'
I'm not saying she's anywhere near poor... hell, if I had one eighteenth of what she has, I'd feel like Donald Trump... but she has to make sure that the money keeps coming in if she wants to continue living the lifestyle that she prefers. Especially when she's no longer healthy enough to work.
Again, that's no different than what the rest of us are doing -- we're just doing it in different tax brackets.