Is It Your Fault You're Broke?

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  • Feb 18
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    No

  • Feb 18
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    Ts way out of our control

  • plants

    the rich have siphoned trillions from the poor over the years and we are still having these discussions

    shh

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    eye contact

    100k is not enough to do more than support a family for a large portion of the US

    You can support a family but you won’t have anything for emergencies, vacations, generational wealth, college, etc.

    If you’re double income it’s more than possible. I agree you can’t support a family on 100k solo but you can definitely live comfortably off 100k in 99% of the country. We all know the places it isn’t possible but those are outliers

    That ties in with the poor choices bit. Do not have kids unless you’re financially ready and unless it’s with a partner you trust.

    Two people with fairly normal jobs making 160-200k HHI will have their fam comfortable

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    Harlem

    If you’re double income it’s more than possible. I agree you can’t support a family on 100k solo but you can definitely live comfortably off 100k in 99% of the country. We all know the places it isn’t possible but those are outliers

    That ties in with the poor choices bit. Do not have kids unless you’re financially ready and unless it’s with a partner you trust.

    Two people with fairly normal jobs making 160-200k HHI will have their fam comfortable

    This is a fundamentally antisocial attitude you’re imposing on people

    The idea that people should instead consider
    • moving away from their families and communities
    • living in dogshit places
    • having both parents work instead of commit to raising their family,
    • abstaining from having families all together

    to make ends meet, and that failing to do otherwise is some failure on the individual and not larger societal conditions is really just falling into the capitalist rat-race mentality that got us here in the first place

  • is anything truly our fault?

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    when I grew up hearing that I’d have to “make sacrifices to raise my family” I thought it would be selling off my 68 mustang or spending less time backpacking.

    I didn’t think it would involve uprooting myself from where my whole family lives or working to the point that I’d never see my kids

  • Feb 18
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    Well

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    when I grew up hearing that I’d have to “make sacrifices to raise my family” I thought it would be selling off my 68 mustang or spending less time backpacking.

    I didn’t think it would involve uprooting myself from where my whole family lives or working to the point that I’d never see my kids

    You have kids?

  • Feb 18
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    Gangy

    You have kids?

    No I’m talking about what’s being presented then vs now

  • Feb 18
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    People would rather believe aliens are real than the fact that the entire world system is created for the specific purpose of immiserating their lives and extracting all possible life forces out of them from the moment they’re born until the day they die

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    Saw that mobile game advertisment lv1 loser->lv100 BOSS looking ass ai pic and immediately knew this was some bootlicking content without clicking.

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    when I grew up hearing that I’d have to “make sacrifices to raise my family” I thought it would be selling off my 68 mustang or spending less time backpacking.

    I didn’t think it would involve uprooting myself from where my whole family lives or working to the point that I’d never see my kids

    people have always done this for all of history?

    that’s why immigrants exist and “working to send money back home” is a normal thing within poorer families lol. especially when your family already comes from a poor area with basically zero opportunity. I know my dad had to live away from his mom with extended family as a kid just to go to school cause they were so poor. that’s just reality, they didn’t choose to be poor but had to rise up from it or we’d still be poor/broke today like a lot of my extended family who never made the same sacrifice still are and we take care of

  • HBDUSA

    I’m not broke because a random person in another country posted on a dying Kanye fan forum and convinced me to buy ethereum after I lost money on crypto in the past.

    I’m not broke because when I got out of school I moved in with my brother while I found a job and his neighbor died and their kids didn’t have the money or time to deal with the house so they sold it to me at a really good deal without getting a realtor involved

    I’m not broke, and am alive, because my friends and family helped me in my struggle to get sober.

    damn

    s*** got me tearing up

  • HBDUSA

    I’m not broke because a random person in another country posted on a dying Kanye fan forum and convinced me to buy ethereum after I lost money on crypto in the past.

    I’m not broke because when I got out of school I moved in with my brother while I found a job and his neighbor died and their kids didn’t have the money or time to deal with the house so they sold it to me at a really good deal without getting a realtor involved

    I’m not broke, and am alive, because my friends and family helped me in my struggle to get sober.

  • JayS 🦄
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    Harlem

    for most people the answer is yes. it's not hard to be relatively successful in this country and most people could earn 100-250k with moderate ease if they made better choices in life

    I'm not sure how to fix it either. I personally did 90% of my research and future planning on my own thanks to the internet and I made sure I didn't go to college and waste my time and rack up debt for a degree that wasn't going to have me set

    Absolutely not lol. Half of America can barely function as an adult, no chance they can make 100k+ with ease.

  • Ha Ha

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    Jbreezyondeck

    Yes it’s my fault all the previous generations are selfish pieces of s*** that don’t give a f*** about anyone but themselves

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    JayS

    Absolutely not lol. Half of America can barely function as an adult, no chance they can make 100k+ with ease.

    they mostly have themselves to blame is what I'm saying. there are few circumstances where someone is legitimately destined for failure with no way out in this country

    in fact you could pretty much completely f*** around for all of primary education and still come out on top by the time you're 25

    my entire upbringing was surrounded by poverty and I know plenty of people who made it out by their mid 20's and I know plenty of people still stuck living check to check at wack job. it mostly comes down to the choices a person makes

  • CGI Dog

    what the hell are you guys watching in your free time fr

    WorldStar twerk compilations

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    CGI Dog

    what the hell are you guys watching in your free time fr

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    yes
    i do not like blaming others for my problems. dont care about previous generations.

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    cooper flagg fan

    yes
    i do not like blaming others for my problems. dont care about previous generations.

    Welcome to KTT2!

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    vayla

    Welcome to KTT2!

    member when kanye remixed a lorde song?

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