No, no it is not that anonymous, necessarily.
Many posters provide personal information - email addresses, home pages, facebook, location, employers, nuggets of information in posts and so on. Either intentionally or inadvertently…but the information is out there, quite often.
Prizefighting purses and riverboat gambling takes count?!? Damn, I’ve got to amend my returns…
But why the need to treat the rest of us (who are anonymous and don’t provide bits of personal information in posts) like we’re morons? Why can’t the decision to either disclose this information or not simply be up to the poster, without all of this “wow, you’d have to be a real dummy to ask/answer this question” stuff?
But money comes up in other posts, too. There are plenty of things I disclose about myself in the course of general conversations here that people can – and do – make judgements about: I don’t see how my income is any more or less sensitive than the rest of it. Besides, the opinion of anyone who would think something like that (without knowing anything else about me) isn’t worth worrying about.
Then why is the answer interesting to you? Why does it need to be a public poll. The knife cuts both ways.
Who is doing that? (Bolding mine.)
Seriously. Who?
Some people - including me - are questioning the overall utility of a public poll for this topic. Also it might serve as a heads-up for the few here who are naive and tend to over-share.
Income = food
Outgo = shit.
Don’t forget, if you do so you can claim your moustache wax as an expense.
We should have been asked whether we’re retired, and what was our income when we were working.
It fluctuates a little bit depending on my profit share, but I can confidently say it’s between one and one billion dollars.
Woulda voted in this public poll had there been a “very fucking poor” option.
Ah I see, you’re better than everyone else and never make subconscious judgments, got it.
I think it’s kind of funny how people will be so protective of information like their salary or income but will willingly share stories of other personal things, like how and how frequently they masturbate and have sex, bathroom habits, admit to doing embarrassing things in their youth, etc. I know not everyone shares that kind of information, but it seems that people are more vocal about their reluctance to share their income than about most other things that are generally considered private.
So you insult people for not voting in your public poll and yet you didn’t vote either. There is a word for that, it’s right on the tip of my tongue. So what is your income? Not that I think you’ll tell the truth but what the hell.
Because now anyone who makes from $0 - 99,999 thinks you’re a rich asshole and anyone who makes $110,000 or more thinks you’re a loser!
Yes, he did.
You sure? I see it now but I checked several times and saw nothing before. If I somehow missed it, my apologies.
It was there yesterday.
It is odd.
It seems to me that coyness about money simply makes more sense in our society. Many of us have shed our inhibitions in other areas - like sex and relationships - but not about money. Perhaps because, in our society, money is simply seen as more truly significant a measure of self-worth and competition vs. others? And an area where it is easier to be taken advantage of?