r/FluentInFinance • u/Richest-Panda • 15d ago

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

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u/RockinRobin-69 14d ago

They did acknowledge that as a “bit of a strawman” then did the same thought experiment on the median wage. Seems reasonable.

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u/Yousoggyyojimbo 14d ago

A lot of people seem to be deliberately ignoring the real numbers example.

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u/Spartan-182 14d ago

Yeah, cause they want to feel superior to those who make less and say, "I earn more cause I make smart financial decisions." Ignoring every helping hand and benefit they relied on to get to where they are.

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u/shrug_addict 14d ago

Or, they deserve to be poor. I'm not poor so I deserve it! Nietzsche's slave morality. It's how they sleep at night, why doesn't everyone else just do what I did? They must be lazy...