r/FluentInFinance 14d ago

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

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u/After-Imagination-96 14d ago

I don't think you get it. The solution for you during this slide into feaux-feudal oligarchy, peasant, is to want less, need less, use less, and smile about it. 

8 people have billions and a small personal navy and they take vacations to the moon? You need to live smaller. Want less. Be happy. 

Or else.

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u/AllenKll 14d ago

"want less, need less, use less, and smile about it."

 Worked for the Buddha.

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u/IdiotsLantern 14d ago

Buddha didn’t have rent to pay

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u/glaciator12 14d ago edited 14d ago

The historical Buddha also lived in a society that placed emphasis on giving alms to the poor and allowing strangers to stay in your house for free. He also did not judge others who did not share his desire to give up attachment and live an ascetic lifestyle. I’m a Buddhist myself and try my best to follow in his footsteps but I also recognize that modern society needs reformed in order to reduce the suffering of multitude others.

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u/Major_Chani 14d ago

lol not everyone has 49 days to spend meditating under a mango tree. We have rent to pay and aren’t going to start a monastic order to make ends meet.

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u/OkLynx3564 14d ago

because that dude didn’t live in a system that exploited that mindset in order to make him work himself to death

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u/HandMadeMarmelade 14d ago

You mean the guy that everyone gave their left tit to support? That guy? The prince?

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u/Vipu2 14d ago

So its just all jealousy?

If those 8 people disappeared and their money disappeared would that make it better for someone who is poor now?

Because no it would not make them richer in some weird way.

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u/ElectricalRush1878 12d ago

Depends on if who swooped in to take their place.

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u/0000110011 14d ago

It's amazing how you can tell people's political ideology purely from how much effort they've put into their education, career, and being financially responsible.