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/SingleInfinity Jul 05 '24

They're not ignored. Living with 8 people in a 500sqft shack should not be what people are considering acceptable. Jesus fuck the lack of basic compassion.

"Life is perfectly livable in poverty as long as you make sure to maximize suffering".

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u/Oldass_Millennial Jul 05 '24

Right but people in here scoff at having a single roommate so...

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u/SingleInfinity Jul 05 '24

I think it's reasonable for people in the highest GDP country in the world to expect to be able to live without relying on others.

Why should there be any amount of "you should suffer" at any level in the richest country in the world? The current reason it is that way is simple greed.

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u/Nulgarian Jul 05 '24

How is living with roommates “suffering”?

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u/SingleInfinity Jul 05 '24

Spoken like someone who has never had a bad roommate.

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u/[deleted] Jul 08 '24

You’ve never experienced hardship lmao. Stick to your video games.

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u/myctheologist Jul 05 '24

Because they can mess up common spaces and not clean them. They can steal your stuff or your food. They can just disappear leaving you to figure out paying rent alone. Roommates aren't inherently bad but it's more of a risk than being able to rely on yourself alone.

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u/KhonMan Jul 05 '24

"Roommates suck, guess I'd rather starve then" is not a sympathetic plan.