I live at home and am gonna get a job. Despite our President here, life so far is OK for me. However, I do wanna see the world and at least travel to Japan, Norway, Sweden, or the Netherlands

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    14 hours ago

    That’s because having tons of money is the only proven way to not have a crappy life in the USA. All the public services and citizen protections are undergoing rapid disassembly, without which one wrong move can put you on the street.

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      12 hours ago

      I don’t have tons of money and I grew up with even less and my life is great dude.

      You don’t need tons of money. What you need is to be smart with your money and way too many people aren’t. You don’t need a Lexus to be happy, but way too many Americans think if you don’t have a stupidly expensive car, you must be miserable.

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        You don’t need tons of money, until you get an Expensive Disease and all of a sudden you need a LOT of money.

        The number one cause of bankruptcy in the USA is medical debt. Unless you have insurance, in which case the number one cause among THOSE people is … actually still medical debt.

        If you’re the kind of person who worries, the idea of not ever being able to get ahead far enough to guarantee anything really, really sucks.