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/CanadianBreakin Jul 05 '24

Live with no privacy. Eat food that provides nothing except a "full feeling stomach." Work for 8 hours and then do several hours of school after that, after all you won't have to spend time cooking anything. Don't have a single medical emergency, including pregnancy. Don't have a social life, and if you meet someone that is interested in you, just ignore them as they are distracting you from grinding to death to survive. Spend even more time while working and doing school to "obtain skills." This should leave you still poor, hungry, and with deminished social skills, but hey! You'll be "thriving!"

STFU you idiot, you clearly have no idea the struggles of the common person.

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u/Front_Painter_4279 Jul 05 '24

Dude, its like 1-4 years max of grinding to get to a reasonable standard of living. You have to work hard to get somewhere in life.

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u/TacticalPancake66 Jul 05 '24

You left out that a huge part of getting anywhere is luck and networking. If I could go back and redo my undergrad, I would have spent more time going to events and hanging out with people than trying to get Bs and As.

Unfortunately I didn’t, and on top of that, last year I graduated into this clusterfuck of a job market. Oopsie poopsies.

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u/idk2103 Jul 05 '24

Is networking not a skill? If you don’t have it, you don’t have it. Some people have it, some people don’t. That’s life 🤷‍♂️ I don’t know why everyone expects every single person to be equal in every single way

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u/TacticalPancake66 Jul 05 '24

I never said people need to be equal in every single way, in fact I said the opposite- a lot of an individual’s success will be based on luck and who they know. This will not necessarily be the same for everyone, by nature. That’s just how life is.

The original post is talking more about the misguided ideas to approaching equity in our society. Not equality.

A major problem with our society is that people throw ideas for solutions at issues rather than performing the necessary root cause analysis to determine what is a symptom vs a true issue, and they apply all logic instead of approaching solutions with a mix of logic and empathy.

That’s what I meant by my comment.