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

  • AskewLord@piefed.social
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    15 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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      8 hours ago

      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.

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        58 minutes ago

        You have no control over that.

        If you want to sit around being worried that you might get cancer one day and get bankrupted… go right ahead. But it won’t make a difference.

        Even if you have all the money, you can also still die.