Flicker is lowkey better than Yellow Flicker Beat
He made magic with that remix

i gotta relisten
been years

S*** is rigged man

Great thread @op

As I was breaking up with my ex who came from a bad background, and we were screaming at each other, I was saying you can't pass the marshmallow test over and over.

And it was a major source of friction. I wanted her to save up and buy a car. She wanted to buy one as soon as her first paycheck arrived. After we broke up she immediately bought some s***box on FB marketplace and couldn't fix it.

But to answer the question, to me the answer is yes it is your fault. All over social media you see people rationalizing their own failures.

At the end of the day the reasons for your current financial situation don't matter, regardless of how unfair they might be. It is still your reality and it is up to you to make the most of it.

It’s not black and white, but yea getting your bread up is something you can focus on and improve. But the playing field is mad unequal

“You can’t pass the marshmallow test”

Yeah its mostly my fault tbh

How

Yeah, you probably didn’t wake up early enough or put milk in your cereal like a soy boy

Depends how broke ur talking

The richest people i know say the only thing that separated them was luck. Make of that what you will

Load of dogshit bro

You completely ignored the most important factor which is information. You need prior knowledge on what makes sense vs what doesnt to make good decisions. Otherwise its just luck

dog it's 2026. there is no information out there you don't have access to

I was lost af, I bullshitted my way through all of middle and high school on some class clown s***. barely started taking school serious til my senior year and even then I couldn't recover my GPA enough to make it into a good school

I did my research, I knew I didn't want my life to revolve around a job, I found something that worked for me and made that my goal. then I went to community college to get my prereqs done and then transferred to a 4 year program to finish. I graduated with 20k debt because pell grants and scholarships covered most of my tuition and made 6 figures fresh off my degree

almost a decade later I would be considered to be in the top 5% of the country as far as income go. and that's just me alone, add my wife and it's another story

all I needed was youtube, reddit, and google and I mapped this s*** out exactly the way I wanted

I saw kids down even more than me and my fam bust their asses in high school and go straight to columbia and they been set ever since. people who were right there joking around with me that never wanted to stop joking so yea they work at target and never found a way out. kids too early, f***ing with d****, jail

but there was always a path they could've taken. I really believe that is true for 90% of people. you don't have to be rich, but you can go from nothing to comfortable. people gotta believe that

All the people in my life who complain about being broke also spend $300 every month on DoorDash or other nonsense

things change rapidly nowadays, there are entire fields that have become irrelevant due to technological advances, things people wouldnt have predicted, you picked a path that worked but that doesnt mean that everyone else just sucks at life for picking a bad path. There are so many moving variables for any situation in life, like me personally my field of research was transformed overnight by new software that trivialized most of what i was researching, which ultimately makes it way harder to find a job. maybe i should have "forseen" this but that doesnt seem like a realistic way of looking at life

btw when i talk about information im not talking about info on how the world is currently, im talking about the ability to tell what will happen in the future, which is truly the only relevant information at any given moment. obviously we cant predict the future, which is my point

in general the problem with what youre saying is that only internal factors matter and that external factors dont when it comes to life, or that anyone can overcome any external factor and if they dont its their fault, which i think is crazy

ill admit i could have taken certain things more seriously than others, made better decisions, but i think thats a s***ty outlook on life, like i have to be perfect and almost robotic, that is not the standard we should try to enforce

Any generation can make money

It’s just the state of the world that makes it difficult

It’s Israel’s fault it’s all them