Pilots are cheap?

No question about it,however I prefer to be called frugal.
 
I think when you fly out for a day trip, fill your tank up after landing, and see a $200 gas receipt... then realize you're going to have to fill it up again when you get home you start thinking "hmm... maybe we could just go to McDonalds and order off the dollar menu".
 
Why would the simpleton condition of being a pilot lead an entire demographic into behaving in a way that others would label as cheap? I don't see any connection there.

What I see is a subset of exercising discretion within the scarcity of living in America, being mislabeled as cheap. That doesn't make a person cheap. The fact remains, the service economy is predicated on people paying an inflated premium for all facets of living, and any one player's unwillingness to play that racket is labeled cheap in order to pressure compliance. The pathological traits that make an individual genuinely cheap are exceedingly rare. What you perceive is society pressuring men to gratuitously part with the exchange value of their labor for the ultimate benefit of the rentier and capital owning class. My exwife certainly tried, unsuccessfully I might proudly add.

No, pilots are generally not cheap imo. Semantics are an insidious weapon though.
 
If sacrificing to afford what you want is cheap then boat owners, house owners RV owners and just about anybody that fulfills a non essential desire is cheap.
 
Norman said:
Like people in all walks of life, some are cheap and some aren't.
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Plus some people are cheap about weird things that don't cost much but will spend a lot of money on other things. I'm not sure you could call anyone who flies on their own dime "cheap".
 
I think just the cheap pilots think other pilots are cheap.
 
cgrab said:
If sacrificing to afford what you want is cheap then boat owners, house owners RV owners and just about anybody that fulfills a non essential desire is cheap.
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Many boat and RV owners are cheap. Any marine or RV mechanic can tell you stories about owners incurring high repair bills because they thought that paying someone to winterize the systems was 'outrageously expensive'.
 
Cheap has nothing to do with income/spending ratio. Cheap is about value for money. If you spend the minimum amount of money possible, cut corners, for an effect and get a crappy 50% effectiveness, rather than spending 20% more to get 100% effectiveness and do the job right; you are cheap. If you spend 300% more to get 0 increase in effectiveness, but it looks fantastic, you are extravagant. If you spend what it takes to do the job right, and an extra 10% to make it pretty, you have achieved a good median value.
 
Flinty Parsimony. Its a phrase to live by and all you plane owners fail.
 
Considering how much it costs to get into and stay in aviation, frugal is a way of life. Although, there are worse things to spend money on! I'm pretty sure there are cheaper and more efficient ways of building and flying airplanes but we haven't gotten to that point safely yet.
In the mean time, Mac n cheese and hot dogs it is. I am to the point I can share a plate or two though! :)
 
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