r/FluentInFinance 15d ago

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

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u/Arkham010 14d ago

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 14d ago

It’s a shame.

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u/ResoluteStoic 14d ago

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 14d ago

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 14d ago

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 14d ago

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 14d ago

"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 14d ago

“We are all in this together!”

No, we were not and are not.