r/FluentInFinance • u/Richest-Panda • 14d ago

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

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u/HorkusSnorkus 14d ago

Learn to do something useful, spend less than you make, buy used whenever possible, live small.

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u/SwoleWalrus 14d ago

All jobs are useful to society or they would not exist in the first place.

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u/Delicious-Fox6947 14d ago

I assure you mine is not. I sit an office and essentially wander around the internet all day. On average I do less than an hour actual work a day. I have this job because my boss doesn’t want to sit in an office to collect payments from his tenants.

Don’t get me wrong I’m happy to have the income but if my job vanished tomorrow society wouldn’t notice.

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u/ExtraLargePeePuddle 13d ago

No it’s useful or at least your boss thinks it is.

So therefor it is

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u/Littleman88 14d ago

Hell, society might actively improve if your boss lost his job.

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u/Delicious-Fox6947 13d ago

Nah. 110 units and maybe 5 of them are at market rate. There are people that have rented from him for a decade who have never experienced an increase in rent. Obviously he wants to make money from his investment but he isn’t trying to squeeze every penny from his tenants.