• Rai@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    1 year ago

    We’re red-circling posts from REDDIT now?!

    The quality of the internet diminishes daily.

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    I managed to break the curse and am far more successful than my parents. It happened through a lot of hard work, persistence, a lot of luck, a hefty gift from my ex’s rich aunt and uncle, and even more luck.

    Anyone can do it.

  • Skoobie@lemmy.film
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    Doing better than my boomer parents? Hahahahaha

    I’ll settle for just doing better than a majority of my millennial peers.

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      It’s fucking insane. With the exception of a few of my peers, we’re all highly skilled, some with over a decade of experience, some with two incomes, and there’s no way any of us can afford to buy a house in the area we work anymore. The only ones who did bought their houses right after school with help from their parents. Rent sure, own a home, not a chance here. So either rent forever, commute more, live with our parents, or find another job. It’s a rock and a hard place.

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    My parents were bad with money. No terrible, just mad. So I am doing better!

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    Im doing better for only two reasons. One, I found out I’m pretty damn good at sales and make a pretty good living doing it.

    And two, I don’t have and don’t plan on having kids. Those things are expensive.

  • rockerface 🇺🇦@lemm.ee
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    I’m doing better than my parents but only because in post Soviet times my family was even poorer, so it’s sorta been gradually improving over the generations. I was able to get better education, better job than my parents ever had an actual opportunity to. But they did try very hard to set me and my sister up with that opportunity, so I’m grateful for that.

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    My mother in law lives with us because of her crushing medical debt. I could go and ask her what she thinks but I think I know the answer.

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    I’m doing better because they had kids, they didn’t have a pension plan, they didn’t have all the safety nets we’ve got now (no parental leave at all compared to a full year now), they got out of school right when interest rates were extremely high and unemployment too, the list goes on and on…

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    This thread is getting a little humble brag bootstrappish. It’s probably better to ask this again in a month after the student loan payments really hit.

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    Everybody has the same opportunities to be successful in life. And now so more than ever. Go out and grab life by the horns and stop complaining

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        I don’t even know what that is. I’m too busy being a successful business man to learn your weird internet slang

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        I do frequently travel to such countries and all of the help at the resorts thank me when I drop little pearls of wisdom like this. You could learn a thing or two about gratitude from them.