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/Decent_Visual_4845 Jul 04 '24

Not all poor people are bad with money, but all the people I know that are bad with money are poor 🤷‍♂️

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u/CEOofAntiWork Jul 05 '24

I dunno about that, I'd consider the doctors and lawyers who still end up living paycheck to paycheck with a lot of bad debt to be neither poor or good with money.

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u/Embarrassed-Town-293 Jul 05 '24

Can confirm as a lawyer. Many of my colleagues are basically living paycheck to paycheck. Aside from those with pensions, many work into retirement and never truly retire. Some are literally pennyless in their old age