Sometimes I really wish we could get a true financial report from piggy. Genuinely curious how it’s going. You’d think he was nearly broke and yet he’s been spending quite a lot recently.
The bank leaks from some time ago pretty much ruined the mystique of what Piggy does with his money. I’d have had a bit of respect for him if he were playing it smart and stocking all that money into a retirement plan or something, but no; he pisses it away on gacha, alcohol, and Doordash.
Not trying to powerlevel, and keeping it a bit vague on specifics, but part of my job requires me to check up on recurring orders for accessories on medical devices. Not earth-shattering ‘you’re going to die if you don’t replace it’ but things that need to be regularly replaced to keep their devices going properly. We’re talking about $30 every three to seven months. I’ve come across real spendthrifts and those that, like Piggy, spend to the point of nothing. And this is a primarily elderly population. It’s more than once I’ve called to try and correct an account or politely inquire what’s going on to get ‘yeah, my card must be out of cash / I ran the limit (depending on debit or credit card). Lemme try another number. I’ll be using this one to go out to Longhorns to get steak later.’ while it’s easy to look at Piggy as a reckless consumer - and he most certainly is - he’s far from alone here in America, when the statistics last I heard were something of 3 out of 8 cannot afford a $400 emergency and close to 59% of Americans are one to two paychecks away from homelessness.
Piggy got unfathomably lucky (pigroach luck) filing for bankruptcy during Covid when proceedings were done via skype call and most were getting approved with less scrutiny. Subsequent bankruptcy claims, when they can be filed, are usually scrutinized far more closely. But I have no doubt that, with shit credit, DSP has gone for the worse than loan shark/predatory credit cards and financing services like Affirm for his Amazon purchases. The sort that snowballs and saddles with debt. He’s on what, two years of paying back taxes with interest to the IRS? I’d be willing to bet that, when you take a ledger of his income versus expenses and debts, Piggy is nowhere near well off and in considerable debt (we know he pays the minimums on his home with payment, and on a 30 year mortgage, I’d be surprised if he owns 15% equity on the home), and all of it is his fault.
It is a death by a thousand cuts, barring some sudden medical emergency (in which case he is completely and swiftly fucked) , and it may take years even, but his lifestyle and reckless spending is unsustainable. Whether it’s years or not, it doesn’t matter; Piggy’s consigned himself to this Sisyphus-ian hell of piling and snowballing his debt up a hill until he can do it no longer and he ends up consumed by it.
It’s all on Amazon payment plans. That mother fucker knows how to lie about how much he’s making for a financial form. Dude managed to get up $120,000 in credit card dept with two morgages and a car note while at his absolute peak was maybe making $300,000 a year. Is that a lot of money a year? Uhh… yeah. That’s a fuck ton of money. But even that much coin will go so far.
So is it even a surprise Dave of House Burnell managed to be a joyless dick even when watching a Nintendo console reveal? Also, it’s fairly obvious he watched other reacts for his reACKACKACKt. I’d bet money on HMK for certain cause he said several things HMK actually noticed.
Piggy is one of those types that just loves to complain, even for the sake of complaining. I’m sure we’ve all run across one person in our lives that just can’t be happy and has to complain about something - that’s Piggy, cranked up to 11. He also lacks creativity, so whatever news he gets he regurgitates from other sources as his own, like HMK.
Part of me wonders if it is just his extreme laziness. Too lazy to think for himself, too lazy to be even slightly optimistic, just a miserable, grumpy soul. When everyone was making fun of his bad case of moobs earlier this week, he should have changed that sweater between streams, but he didn’t. That could be a pride thing, but it could also be a laziness thing. I mentioned a while ago when I posted here that Piggy is is driven between ego and greed which is the stronger of the two, but I think we need to add laziness as a third factor that drives him.