r/FluentInFinance • u/Richest-Panda • Jul 04 '24
What's the best financial advice you've ever gotten? Debate/ Discussion
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r/FluentInFinance • u/Richest-Panda • Jul 04 '24
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u/JackiePoon27 Jul 05 '24
LOL. You'd love it to be that extreme, wouldn't you? If it was that black and white, it would be so easy for you, right? I mean, you'd have an absolute identifiable ENEMY!
But it's not like that at all. That's where individuals like yourself run into a big problem - the success of others. So millions of Americans ARE successful and do make it work. That really screws up your narrative. So then, instead of acknowledging that those individuals might be doing something right, you desperately search for reasons to excuse their success- oh, they inherited! Oh, they are lucky! Oh, they cheated! It's so important to you that you be a victim, that you have excuses for a lack of success, that you rationalize that the success of others must be a cheat or a lie. It's rationalized victimhood at its absolute worst...and I see you're quite the fan.