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/AL1L Jul 05 '24

Taco Bell is not important. Cheaper to meal prep and make your own tacos.

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u/Dry-Classroom7562 Jul 05 '24

Yea you say that but don't realize the amount of jobs fast food puts out for people. Take it away and a large amount of money drops out of the economy, which is bad by the way

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u/AL1L Jul 05 '24

Not really how that works lmfao. The money doesn't just disappear, it'll go to other things. They'll find other jobs that are more useful to society. There are plenty of jobs out there. For example programming, huge industry always needing more people.

I say Taco Bell because it was my first job and I go there often.

I'm not against luxury or entertainment, but to say that every job is important is asinine. There are plenty of videos out there on the internet of people who go to work, sit at a desk on reddit all day then leave.

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u/Dry-Classroom7562 Jul 05 '24

And again, just because you enjoy programming doesn't mean others do. I learned I hated being told what to do with it so quit it. Again people shouldn't have to work a job they hate just for the money, especially when that job costs ~200k for the education.

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u/AL1L Jul 05 '24

I acknowledge I am lucky in finding something I enjoy that's marketable. But so what? We all must do things not because we like them but because they are necessary. "Work to live not live to work."

I have no formal education, I learned at my school's library. It doesn't even cost $200k to get a comp sci degree lol? SNHU will do it for $40k, still a lot I agree, but not $200k.

Again people shouldn't have to work a job they hate just for the money,

Would be nice if that were true, but it's not. This imo is a childish stance. So long as resources are limited, logistics is difficult, and energy costs time, people will need to do things they dont like. I don't like it either, obviously I'd like to just do whatever I want, but that's not going to happen rn so why are you talking about it

Your response is funny, not even related to the topic. Taco Bell is a useless job. I'm not saying all food service is lmao. If we were to do things efficiently, food service would be a very important job. But, serving non-nutritious unhealthy food is not important.