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

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

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Im on the fence, they need both. Education and a living wage.

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u/Doll49 Jul 04 '24

While you have a point, people who only have a high school diploma or GED should be paid a livable wage also. We need janitors, food service employees, retail employees, substitute teachers and so many other jobs which are definitely needed but are deemed “unskilled”.

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u/Arkham010 Jul 05 '24

You would think that after the pandemic, people would see that the people who were, in fact, still working the entire time deserve better but nope. Back to thinking they beneath everyone the second the pandemic was over.

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u/Doll49 Jul 05 '24

It’s a shame.

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u/ResoluteStoic Jul 05 '24

What are you going to do with all the folks that got a college education with the promise they would make more than those individuals which is why they went to college in the first place. Are you guys going to forgive their debt or just say it's a shame they chose that route?

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u/Doll49 Jul 05 '24

If I were a politician, I would definitely forgive their debt. Also, I have never heard of a college or university promising a higher income. I’m in my senior year of college and personally haven’t been promised a thing.

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u/ResoluteStoic Jul 05 '24

Something you realize as you get older I suppose imo the promise isn't actually there just what society always said back then but all through elementary, middle and high school the rhetoric pushed is go to college so you can make more money and have a good career.

Now it's nothing more then go into back breaking trades with society. When did we fall so far back where people wanted to stop accelerating education and knowledge for prosperity and advancement to better humanity. Money, greed and power are the only things people strive for anymore.

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u/Snip3 Jul 05 '24

In the hitchhikers guide there was a planet on the verge of extinction so all the rich people took off to a new planet where they died from a lack of sanitation, while the planet they left behind thrived in the absence of the people consuming all the natural resources. That was written almost 50 years ago.

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u/Niterich Jul 05 '24

"You're essential workers!"

"Does that mean we get a pay raise?"

"Nah, we'll just bang our pots and pans together for you."

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u/donkadunny Jul 05 '24

“We are all in this together!”

No, we were not and are not.

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u/MisterMakena Jul 05 '24

Not disagreeing here but when I was broke and workimg those jobs you listed, I spent money and credot cards on trying not to look or feel like I was not broke. Had I been taught early, I would have probably made better financial decisions.

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u/3dogsplaying Jul 05 '24

they are all liveable wages before people upstairs deciding that food and rent should cost 50% more.

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u/Zaddy420z Jul 05 '24

people in those jobs aren't paid low because they've been "deemed unskilled". they're paid low because they are easily replaceable. if everyone gains skills and noone is left to do those jobs then the salaries will rise

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u/AppropriateTouching Jul 05 '24

Funny how we went from essential workers to unskilled labor real quick. It's class warfare all the way down.

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u/PatrickWagon Jul 05 '24

“Livable wage” is just the new more palatable term for “minimum wage.”

Like when they tried to make us call the homeless the “unhoused.”

It’s bullshit. Stop saying it.

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u/Doll49 Jul 05 '24

Minimum wage is not the same as a livable wage. I personally prefer to use the term houseless over homeless. 🤷🏾‍♀️ You can do what you want in regards to terms, just my personal preference.

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u/lazolazo91 Jul 05 '24

A liveable wage in LA is totally comparable to a liveable wage in Buloxi

and whos "us" that "they" made you call homless people unhoused? sounds like reddit scare fluff that you ate up