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It's something I struggle with. I decided to debt snowball it by plowing an extra $500 per month into my debts. It's essentially Dave Ramsey's advice, ignoring his dumb-ass #bitcoin opinions.

Ironically, his Financial Peace University influenced my decision the most. He said something like:

It's dumb to earn 10% in the stock market, and have thousands of dollars in a savings account that pays 0.01% interest market if you pay 30% on credit card debt.

Back when I watched the videos, I already saw bitcoin go from $200 to $600 and thought about it.🤔

Well...yeah, but what if my savings account pays 50% or 100% per year? Who's the slave now? The borrower or the lender? I think we know the answer.

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FreeYoda 9mo ago

I think you should compare interest and gains against inflation (real inflation, not what is reported).

What they charge you for a loan, mortgage or CC-debt is just a measure how hard you are being fu.... combined with how stupid someone is.

#Bitcoin is an answer to most of this, hint why they don't like it......

Marc 9mo ago

That's exactly what I do. I prefer using the Chapwood Index, but you could also use shadow stats or m2 if you wanted.

San Diego is the closest US City to me so I use 12.85% as a benchmark.

If I can obtain a loan for less than. 12%, I would rather make monthly payments. The interest is 10% on my new AC/heater, but bitcoin is up 36% since then despite the fact that every normie in the world thinks it "crashed."

If I paid cash, I would have to add a 15% sales tax the government calls "capital gains." Fiat is debt anyway so I think it's a bad idea to sell sats for debt.

Of course, if my job was my only asset and I had less than $400 in the bank(I do, but you know what I mean) , this would be terrible advice. I get why Dave Ramsey tells normies to sell CrYpTo, but his math doesn't work for bitcoin.