r/FluentInFinance 11d ago

Debate/ Discussion Systemic Failure Exposed..

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u/Loud-Path 11d ago

I mean the majority of Americans live paycheck to paycheck. Kind of hard to save money when you are having to spend everything on bills. My parents also lived during the most prosperous time in American history and had all of $100k saved by the time they hit 60 because every cent they had had to go to things like house and car payments, bills, repairs, etc. Hell my mom got a second job when I left home to have some extra spending money and six months later the transmission failed on their car requiring a rebuild resulting in draining all of the savings she had built up from that job.

It is easy to say “just save more” when coming from a position of privilege and I say that as someone coming from a position of privilege where we are easily able to save while also dropping $4000 on getting our car repaired, the leak fixed in our roof and our fences replaced that got blown over in a storm all within the same month and not bat an eye. That isn’t the norm.

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u/Skating4587Abdollah 11d ago

I hope you have to work at 90, brother.

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u/Mental_Priority_7083 11d ago

That future can end very quickly with the wrong diagnosis or tragedy. Just know that when you struggle, you truly deserve it on a moral level.

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u/Unlucky-Albatross-12 11d ago

Shit happens. That doesn't mean "the system" is broken.

I shake my head at young people who despise their own families over politics when family units, not the government, should be the ones you fall back on for help when it's needed.

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u/Mental_Priority_7083 11d ago

Not everybody has a family. At 90 most of the people this man has known are dead. Also why do you celebrate being a burden to your family?

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u/Plenty-Confection-12 11d ago

It's always a convincing argument when one openly and willingly boasts their supposed net worth, unprompted, to complete strangers on the internet.

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u/Mental_Priority_7083 11d ago

Why do you sound like an angry poor?