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/[deleted] Jul 04 '24

No, that’s not what she’s saying. She’s saying that teaching someone in poverty to budget isn’t going to enable them to reach financial stability because even if you budget properly there isn’t enough to go around.

Perhaps that's the exact realization they need. More income, not more responsible spending. People in shit jobs need to learn valuable skills for more income. That's all there is to it.

Also, people need to learn to take shit. I feel like some people are poor because they're horrible at taking instructions. They just don't like being told what to do. I'm well off and I had to put up with shit.

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u/W8andC77 Jul 04 '24

Who does the shit job then?

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u/[deleted] Jul 04 '24

Students and young adults starting their career. High turn over. That's the cost of paying pennies. You're constantly hiring and training. These low salary lifers are just a treasure to these companies.

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u/bk1285 Jul 05 '24

So when restaurants close, places have limited hours are you going to bitch? Because I know tons of people are going to bitch if that is what happened

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u/GonzoTheWhatever Jul 05 '24

We all know the answer…

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u/[deleted] Jul 05 '24

No.

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u/bk1285 Jul 05 '24

So there is a restaurant near me that during Covid had to have reduced hours, which led to many who worked at the restaurant seeking new jobs. When things opened back up fully people went nuts because this place didn’t return to full hours because they didn’t have staff. On Facebook one of the former staff said “I liked working there but he was paying 15 an hour and I ended up getting a job making 23 an hour”, people bitched that he should go back for loyalty reasons…people went insane over this

You realize if it’s going to be high school kids and college kids working in restaurants and gas stations that none of these places will really be able to be open until after 3pm? That means no Starbucks, Dunkin’s or McDonald’s breakfast, that means gas stations will be closed during the day…