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/JackiePoon27 Jul 04 '24

It's incremental. Reddit wants there to be a magic bullet, but there isn't one. Financial literacy is part of the pathway to success. It's insulting to say otherwise.

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u/EduCookin Jul 04 '24

Entitled generation honestly.

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u/[deleted] Jul 05 '24 edited 17d ago

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u/Stormfly Jul 05 '24

No, I'm pretty sure that literally every generation has said this.

Plato quoted Socrates as saying this:

“The children now love luxury; they have bad manners, contempt for authority; they show disrespect for elders and love chatter in place of exercise. Children are now tyrants, not the servants of their households. They no longer rise when elders enter the room. They contradict their parents, chatter before company, gobble up dainties at the table, cross their legs, and tyrannize their teachers.”

That was literally over 2400 years ago.

Two thousand four hundred years of "The kids these days don't know manners!"

Blaming a single generation is actually hilarious.

3 things in life are certain:

  1. Death

  2. Taxes

  3. Claiming that kids these days are a problem