<p>Put it this way – with the exception of the cable television (seriously!) I would probably spend exactly as they are now.</p>
<p>I would live in a nice-ish place, close to where I work (because 90 hour work weeks are long enough), and in a good neighborhood because I’m having a kid. Such a place would be expensive.</p>
<p>I’d be borrowing that money against my future earnings, which banks let me do because they seem to think I’m good for it. And I’d do it in order to “level off” my consumption. It’s just logical behavior. And medium-sized luxuries, like NFL Sunday Ticket, probably wouldn’t delay my paying off my debt particularly quickly.</p>
<p>But a CNN article about how austerely I’m living seems a little odd.</p>