# What if you could freely ask people about their money?

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**Category:** In My Humble Opinion\
**Created:** [June 3, 2008, 3:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-if-you-could-freely-ask-people-about-their-money/451581 "2008-06-03T03:19:50Z")\
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**Author:** ![Green\_Cymbeline](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/green_cymbeline/32/9244_2.png) [@Green\_Cymbeline](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Green_Cymbeline)\
**Post date:** [June 4, 2008, 3:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-if-you-could-freely-ask-people-about-their-money/451581/21 "2008-06-04T03:09:17Z")

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I think it’s best not to discuss it. For example, I have a friend who, on several occasions, has mentioned how much he makes (A LOT). Note that I did not ask - he told. Anyway after finding out that this person is rolling in the dough from his job, and that he made a killing selling his house, and that he basically has no debt, etc., it started to kind of irk me how _cheap_ he is. Like always mentioning how he buys all his clothes at TJ Maxx, and just being a stingy penny-pincher in general.

So it kind of irked me when he brags about how easy his job is, and that he doesn’t really have to do much, whilst making like 5 times what I made, while I was working my ass off (and I have more education that he does). And it hurt when I have to struggle to pay for things we do together while it’s just all petty pocket change to him, etc.

I would have been better off never knowing. So no, I don’t think this should be openly discussed.

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**Author:** ![GuanoLad](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guanolad/32/42_2.png) [@GuanoLad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GuanoLad)\
**Post date:** [June 4, 2008, 4:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-if-you-could-freely-ask-people-about-their-money/451581/22 "2008-06-04T04:37:00Z")

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[QUOTE=nyctea scandiaca]  
Like always mentioning how he buys all his clothes at TJ Maxx, and just being a stingy penny-pincher in general.  
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[The Simpsons](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Das_Bus) has a quote for everything.

[QUOTE=Bill Gates]

“Oh, I didn’t get rich by writing a lot of checks!”

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