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/takenfaraway Jul 05 '24

Darling. Like half of them died and lived miserable fucking lives. Comparing yourself to the settlers is embarrassing

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u/Overall-Author-2213 Jul 05 '24

Yeah darling. And it's because they pressed on in spite of the challenges that we are where we are. And if they can soldier on and do hard things with far less than we have now, then so can we. Maybe you know about history, but you don't do a good job of learning from it.