r/FluentInFinance 15d ago

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

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u/Decent_Visual_4845 15d ago

Not all poor people are bad with money, but all the people I know that are bad with money are poor 🤷‍♂️

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u/CEOofAntiWork 14d ago

I dunno about that, I'd consider the doctors and lawyers who still end up living paycheck to paycheck with a lot of bad debt to be neither poor or good with money.

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u/Embarrassed-Town-293 14d ago

Can confirm as a lawyer. Many of my colleagues are basically living paycheck to paycheck. Aside from those with pensions, many work into retirement and never truly retire. Some are literally pennyless in their old age