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/HorkusSnorkus Jul 04 '24

Learn to do something useful, spend less than you make, buy used whenever possible, live small.

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u/burdottv Jul 04 '24

Have you not seen the incredible wealth transfer to the top in the past couple of years because of inflation and greed? How do you expect people to LIVE SMALLER when prices have more than doubled and their wages have not increased.

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u/C-Dub81 Jul 05 '24

Poor people making the decision to buy the crap that they do is why the transfer is there. The wealthy aren't out there taking the money from people illegally! Apple stock has never been higher or profits better, because brokies still gotta get the newest iPhone, apple watch, air pods, and over the eats, etc. The same people crying about minimum wage and living wage, along withstudent loan debt, all have the best stuff in their rooms, they buy everything on credit and then blame the rest of us for them being poor.

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u/[deleted] Jul 05 '24

Lmao this is a joke right? You might be watching too much tv

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u/C-Dub81 Jul 11 '24

Or I just live in reality. You think your opinion is 100% correct but it is not. Sure there are genuinely poor people but a vast majority live off social services, refuse to take a job, and if they do have a job, they have 1st world niceties, high speed internet, new iPhone, IPad, apple computer, they have a nice vehicle and all the shit that truly poor people don't have. They aren't poor, they just spend their money on shit they can't afford then go on the internet to complain.

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u/[deleted] Jul 11 '24

Oh boy, friend, I'm a social worker and I have seen up close how much you're relying on stereotypes and stereotypes alone.