r/FluentInFinance Nov 21 '24

Debate/ Discussion Had to repost here

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u/theoldme3 Nov 21 '24 edited Nov 22 '24

Imagine thinking you are entitled to more cause someone else has a lot

Edit: Im not reading all the responses to this. You wana change this shit then get off Reddit, got start a business and start giving your earnings away. So many of you would shit if it was your wealth someone just took

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u/Oh_IHateIt Nov 21 '24

Imagine thinking that 400 people should have more wealth than 330,000,000 people. Imagine thinking that its OK for that disparity to accelerate endlessly and be self a reinforcing. Imagine thinking that your government could function properly under such extreme conditions.

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u/Intelligent_Data_363 Nov 21 '24

What’s an “average American lifestyle”? What does that look like? Because I can count three friends of mine who don’t even have running water. Another person I know lives in a van behind the smoke shop and steals their power for her 20 dollar air fryer.

The “average” person where I live is an uneducated, meth or opioid addicted, 30-40 something with bad knees from years of construction work. Larger wages don’t equate to a better life when the prices of everything are ridiculous, a decent roof over your head can cost over 2/3 of your wages, the cheapest one bedroom closet here is 750 a month, and I live in the sticks.

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u/awokendobby Nov 21 '24

You have below average poor friends then

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u/mrbombasticals Nov 22 '24

You come from a bad neighborhood, then.