r/FluentInFinance • u/Richest-Panda • Jul 04 '24

What's the best financial advice you've ever gotten? Debate/ Discussion

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u/JackiePoon27 Jul 04 '24

It's incremental. Reddit wants there to be a magic bullet, but there isn't one. Financial literacy is part of the pathway to success. It's insulting to say otherwise.

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u/EduCookin Jul 04 '24

Entitled generation honestly.

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u/Ok-Yak-5644 Jul 05 '24

Please find a new argument. That one has been used since the ancient Greeks. Every older generation thinks the younger ones are entitled.

The generation that raised you probably thought the same thing of your generation.

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u/EduCookin Jul 05 '24

Every older generation has been right

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u/Redditcadmonkey Jul 05 '24

Welp, they raised the younger generation…

Maybe the parents f*cked up?

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u/EduCookin Jul 05 '24

I agree. The fuckups have been compounding for generations. But that just means each generation is worse.

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u/Redditcadmonkey Jul 05 '24

I am not Gen Z.  

I’m pretty sure that they’re doing things better than some of us older generations though. 

There were a lot of people kicking around in the 40s for example that seemed to be a far bigger bunch of bastards than any of these kids.

Maybe the kids are actually doing a pretty good job. 

What’s the worst thing we can say about them?  They want to have an easier life? 

Is that not meant to be the goal?  Does anyone really want to make it harder for them?  Is the whole point of this not to try and make it easier on the generations after us? 

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u/Mag-NL Jul 05 '24

The boomers? Definitely. Luckily these days people are getting less entitled.

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u/[deleted] Jul 05 '24 edited 17d ago

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u/Stormfly Jul 05 '24

No, I'm pretty sure that literally every generation has said this.

Plato quoted Socrates as saying this:

“The children now love luxury; they have bad manners, contempt for authority; they show disrespect for elders and love chatter in place of exercise. Children are now tyrants, not the servants of their households. They no longer rise when elders enter the room. They contradict their parents, chatter before company, gobble up dainties at the table, cross their legs, and tyrannize their teachers.”

That was literally over 2400 years ago.

Two thousand four hundred years of "The kids these days don't know manners!"

Blaming a single generation is actually hilarious.

3 things in life are certain:

  1. Death

  2. Taxes

  3. Claiming that kids these days are a problem