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The way you are using irresponsible is perverse. e.g. Being Irresponsible in this context would be remortgaging your house, while unemployed and using all the money to buy gadgets.

Forgetting that you have a small amount deducted for a service you are no longer using, isn't. It is minor oversight.

The way that language is abused by people when it comes to these sorts of subjects is bordering on semantic manipulation. Which in itself is a form of deceit.

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It's a difference of degree, not kind. 30 bucks thrown into a corporate black hole instead of a handful of meals, or gas for a day of driving delivery, or medicine. An hour or two or three of a low-income earner's productivity, every month, possibly for years, because... you didn't care to spend 5 minutes looking at your bank or credit card statement? Come on.

But, of course, no one can tell off the comfortable class. It's "perverse" and "abuse" and "deceit" and "manipulation". eyeroll

If the subject were as minor as you say, you wouldn't be trotting out that kind of characterization. I hit a nerve.

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