{"id":13231,"date":"2026-02-06T04:00:00","date_gmt":"2026-02-06T11:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/?p=13231"},"modified":"2026-02-05T16:41:40","modified_gmt":"2026-02-05T23:41:40","slug":"weekend-wisdom-relationships-in-manufactured-spend","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/index.php\/2026\/02\/06\/weekend-wisdom-relationships-in-manufactured-spend\/","title":{"rendered":"Weekend Wisdom: Relationships in Manufactured Spend"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Even though I play one on TV<a href=\"#lie\">*<\/a>, I&#8217;m definitely not a psychologist. I have, however, observed a few things about manufactured spenders:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>They have a tendency toward being rather <a href=\"https:\/\/www.familyeducation.com\/gen-z-slang\/extra-meaning\">extra<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Their intelligence is generally higher than average<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Their social-skills tend to be focused on the short term, except for the next item<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Their memory about being wronged lasts a long time<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>Taken together, there are a conclusions we can draw that seem to be accurate based on lots of observation in the space:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Friendly relationships need active work, or they fade somewhat quickly<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>The memory of when someone feels wronged lasts forever<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>Like a good credit union, working to maintain a relationship boosts profitability and longevity. Also like a good credit union, nuking the thing isn&#8217;t going to help you at all. Instead, you end up blacklisted by your target, their inner circles, and probably by plenty of casual observers too. Is there a time and place for that sort of thing? I&#8217;m not sure, but if you&#8217;re going to do it be deliberate about the time and the place, like the <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Bikini_Atoll\">Bikini Atoll<\/a> I guess.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Have a nice weekend friends!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p id=\"lie\" style=\"font-size:14px\">*This is a lie. I don&#8217;t play one on TV. Once I pretended to though. No, that&#8217;s a lie too.<\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-full is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"900\" height=\"732\" src=\"https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/sub-buzz-1290-1693417177-1.png.webp\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-13233\" style=\"width:420px\" srcset=\"https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/sub-buzz-1290-1693417177-1.png.webp 900w, https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/sub-buzz-1290-1693417177-1.png-300x244.webp 300w, https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/sub-buzz-1290-1693417177-1.png-768x625.webp 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 900px) 100vw, 900px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\" style=\"font-size:14px\">Churners are good at jokes though.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Even though I play one on TV*, I&#8217;m definitely not a psychologist. I have, however, observed a few things about manufactured spenders: Taken together, there<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_editorskit_title_hidden":false,"_editorskit_reading_time":0,"_editorskit_is_block_options_detached":false,"_editorskit_block_options_position":"{}","footnotes":""},"categories":[56],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13231","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-wisdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13231","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13231"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13231\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13234,"href":"https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13231\/revisions\/13234"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13231"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13231"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13231"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}