Financial independence

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

The quality of the internet diminishes daily.

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- It's nothing new, even on reddit.
  
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  I hated it there, and I hate it here.
  
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- !uselessredcircle
  
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- Hey, I laughed.
  
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- I appreciate it. On mobile it can be hard to see sometimes. Often i have to click the image and blow it up, especially stuff from the 'chans'.
  
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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.

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- Funny thing is, my career is more successful than my parents but their pensions are still more than I earn lmao
  
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  It's like reading those articles like "I paid off my student loans in 5 years and so can you." I recall one where a couple spoke on the hard work it took to pay things off, and then casually dropped in that their spouse's parents gave them a condo that they then rented out.
  
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- I'm glad your doing well man
  
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- The American dream lives on. God bless you, sir.
  
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- Best I can do is working day job, streaming at night and winning only the cost of a scratcher back everytime. 🍀💰
  
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- Good for you, but stop with the "anyone can do it" BS. It's just factually wrong. You clearly stated that you had a lot of luck and that's not something everyone gets or can affect in anyway whatsoever.
  
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  It's really necessary to put /s everywhere, because someone won't get it...
  
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  Woosh
  
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  There it is
  
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  That’s kinda exactly my point. I’m being sardonic.
  
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Who do you think bought my car? My parents? Please.

It was their parents

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- My grandparents have been bailing my parents out of financial trouble their entire lives. Me? I got some cash for a down payment on a house, and I presently make more than ny parents do combined
  
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- All FOUR grandparents, right?
  
  RIGHT?
  
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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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- GenX checking in to say: Same.
  
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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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- Perhaps they had better grammar and spell check
  
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  Sassy.
  
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  Perhaps they had no money because they spended everything in fancy spell chack
  
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  Perhaps your deduction skills could use some work if you couldn't figure out the comment?
  
  God forbid we expect every non native English speaker to have a masters in the language 🤦‍♂️
  
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- Same. I'm doing better, but man the bar was low.
  
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Multigenerational households are cool though

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- Yes and no. Less lonely than living by yourself and you can cook in bulk, but also you get sick of your family after living with them for a while. Also if you're cramming 3 generation into a 3 bedroom because of financial constraints that's pretty rough.
  
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  3 generation into a 3 bedroom because of financial constraints that's pretty rough.
  
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- Sure, but specifically in a culture where it's overall disadvantagious to still live at home as a young adult: Not really, ya know?
  
  I love my parents, but I've been ready to live separately from them for a long time.
  
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- polycule >>>>> multgenerational household
  
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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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Yeah...

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Lol, I’m doing a bit better than my parents were while they were paying for chemo.

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- I hope they're doing well now.
  
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I'm definitely doing better than my parents. But they were horrible with money so it's not like it was a high bar.

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A lot better but only because the communists took my mother's family's business and property

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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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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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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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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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- lmao this is a great bit account
  
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  Thanks, I’ve been trying to talk some common sense around here and mostly just get downvotes, no good deed goes unpunished
  
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  it's the @lemm.ee that really sells it for me
  
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- Lol you forgot the /s
  
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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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- Go to any impoverished developing country, I'm sure they'd love this advice.
  
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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.
  
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