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Old 02-01-2023, 06:35 PM
 
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Really? Wow.

To me, this illustrates a core problem with inflation: People willing to pay far beyond what something merits.

But a fun story.



How These Dog Walkers Make Over $100,000 a Year
It is a lucrative time to be a dog walker, especially for pet entrepreneurs who cater to the wealthy.
https://www.nytimes.com/2023/01/22/s...-100k-nyc.html
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Old 02-01-2023, 10:19 PM
 
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Better than slaving away in an office for some schlamele manager who cries if your bathroom break is too long.
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Old 02-02-2023, 04:52 AM
 
Location: New Jersey
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Really? Wow.

To me, this illustrates a core problem with inflation: People willing to pay far beyond what something merits.

But a fun story.



How These Dog Walkers Make Over $100,000 a Year
It is a lucrative time to be a dog walker, especially for pet entrepreneurs who cater to the wealthy.
https://www.nytimes.com/2023/01/22/s...-100k-nyc.html
This doesn't have to do with inflation. This is just affluent people that bought a dog that they don't want to walk. They just want the god for social media likes, keeping up with the joneses, etc.
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Old 02-02-2023, 09:08 AM
 
Location: New York, NY
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100,000 is not a lot of money. In fact, the Fed met yesterday to increase interest rates by 25 basin points and claimed that employers are paying too much money in wages to employees because they cannot find quality workers. They (the Fed) had the audacity to say that having a high unemployment / low wage environment would decrease inflation to 2% where they want it.
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Old 02-02-2023, 10:24 AM
 
Location: Montreal
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This doesn't have to do with inflation. This is just affluent people that bought a dog that they don't want to walk. They just want the god for social media likes, keeping up with the joneses, etc.
In god we strut.
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Old 02-02-2023, 10:29 AM
 
Location: New Jersey
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In god we strut.
ruff ruff.

dog is god; god is dog.
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Old 02-02-2023, 12:35 PM
 
Location: Brooklyn, NY
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Makes sense to me. My friends and colleagues would pay an arm and a leg for someone good to walk their dogs while they are not home during the workday. (or out of town, etc)

As-a-matter-of-fact, a good friend pays her dog walker $300 bucks a week to walk her dog 5 days, twice a day.

If you are a dog walker and get 10 of those clients, that's $3,000+ per week, or $12k per month.

Easy to do that in a dense city like NYC.
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Old 02-02-2023, 12:58 PM
 
Location: New Jersey
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Makes sense to me. My friends and colleagues would pay an arm and a leg for someone good to walk their dogs while they are not home during the workday. (or out of town, etc)

As-a-matter-of-fact, a good friend pays her dog walker $300 bucks a week to walk her dog 5 days, twice a day.

If you are a dog walker and get 10 of those clients, that's $3,000+ per week, or $12k per month.

Easy to do that in a dense city like NYC.
But are the dogs actually walking a good distance? Sometimes, it's just picking up 5 to 10 dogs and once the last dog is picked up it is back to drop off dog #1.
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Old 02-02-2023, 01:13 PM
 
Location: Brooklyn, New York
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100,000 is not a lot of money. In fact, the Fed met yesterday to increase interest rates by 25 basin points and claimed that employers are paying too much money in wages to employees because they cannot find quality workers. They (the Fed) had the audacity to say that having a high unemployment / low wage environment would decrease inflation to 2% where they want it.
The Feds priority is to fight inflation, not care about standard of living. If the "high" wages are only achieved through high inflation, then those salaries are bogus.
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Old 02-02-2023, 06:23 PM
 
Location: Montreal
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But are the dogs actually walking a good distance? Sometimes, it's just picking up 5 to 10 dogs and once the last dog is picked up it is back to drop off dog #1.
That is the question. Does the dog get ample exercise time?

If I paid myself for the type of workout I give my dog, I’d make myself rich, but the pleasure I get from watching her catch ball is gold.
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