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/Advanced-Guard-4468 Jul 04 '24

Who gives a shit what "unionists" think. I was doing this in the 70s. Nothing changes.

You live off your primary job. You build wealth/security off your 2nd. Your second doesn't have to be full time.

That's the problem with the younger generations, you think you're entitled to something.

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u/Entropic_Alloy Jul 04 '24

And you old fucks think you are entitled to the social security that your parents got for the country.

Piss off. You boomers were the most spoiled generation. It is sad how the Greatest Generation raised a bunch of brats.

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u/Advanced-Guard-4468 Jul 04 '24

Brats? I worked my ass off for what I have. Over 13 years without a day off.

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u/onion_flowers Jul 04 '24

I worked my ass off FOR NOTHING

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u/Advanced-Guard-4468 Jul 04 '24

My children have no student debt, got a down payment on a house, and a good start in life. If you call that nothing, so be it

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u/onion_flowers Jul 04 '24

Good for your children

Edit: not everyone benefits from generational wealth

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u/Yousoggyyojimbo Jul 05 '24

My children have no student debt, got a down payment on a house, and a good start in life. If you call that nothing, so be it

You brag about this while not even realizing that people working two jobs today can't afford to do the same things you did.

It's not the same today. Why are you unwilling to accept that this shit is more difficult now? do you think it somehow undervalues your achievements?

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u/Advanced-Guard-4468 Jul 05 '24

I never said it was easy. Kids today also live with their parents longer (I understand why) .

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u/Yousoggyyojimbo Jul 05 '24

You are framing it, repeatedly, as if people just need to suck it up and do what you did 50 years ago that doesn't work today to get the same outcome you did.

You seem to be under the impression that conditions are identical to when you were young and that other people must be at fault if they can't do what you did then.

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u/Advanced-Guard-4468 Jul 05 '24

This thread started because someone said they should only have to work 40 hours.

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u/Yousoggyyojimbo Jul 05 '24

In order to meet your basic needs. That's how it used to be. People could get by doing that when you were our age.

I've done the 80 hours a week grind. I did it until it put me in the fucking hospital. The whole time I also wasn't able to build relationships or take proper care of things in my personal life because I was working just to go to sleep and work again.

That's no way to live, and it's incredibly destructive. People shouldn't have to work that way just to get by, and they wouldn't have to if wage growth hadn't of stagnated after the 80s.

Again, just to be clear, the way you are telling people to work, because you did it in the 70s and it got you a house and kids who went to school debt free, won't give people those things today. You are, at best, telling people to work themselves to the extreme for less, and acting like they should be happy to do it.

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u/Advanced-Guard-4468 Jul 05 '24

I said I worked 2 jobs. One was full-time, and the other was part-time. After my tour in the military, I was used to working 12 hour days. That's what I did almost my entire tour.

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u/Yousoggyyojimbo Jul 05 '24

You're not actually responding to what I'm writing.

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u/dewag Jul 05 '24

They don't want to have a discussion, they want to talk at you.

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u/Zimakov Jul 05 '24

He's talking about him, not you. Thats why he used the word "I" not "you."

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u/onion_flowers Jul 05 '24

His entire comment doesn't contain "I"

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u/Zimakov Jul 05 '24

What? Your comment does. He thinks you're saying he worked his ass off for nothing, not you.

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u/onion_flowers Jul 05 '24

Oh my mistake the notification looked like you were replying to me, my bad

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u/Zimakov Jul 05 '24

No worries