Young adults are getting used to living on a financial cliff

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• newthrowaway20@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Like they have a choice?

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  • smegger@aussie.zone ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Exactly. You get used to the feeling of intense anxiety if you have it all the time. You don’t like it, but you get used to it. Same goes for being poor. It’s shit, but if you can’t get away from it you adjust your life whether you want to or not.

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    • TheFriar@lemm.ee ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      “Young adults are learning to be comfortable while actively on fire, MSNBC Money Markets reports.”

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  • BruceTwarzen@kbin.social ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Man i'm sick of living like that. I become a trust fund child.

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• InfiniteStruggle@sh.itjust.works ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  No, they aren’t. They’re forced to because there is no viable alternative.

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• iheartneopets@lemm.ee ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  No we definitely aren’t. These and the pieces about ‘YOLO spenders’ are some of the wildest examples of gaslighting I’ve seen from media outlets in a while.

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• jpreston2005@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Living in poverty causes trauma in children and adults.

  we’re not OK. Inequality now is worse than during the great depression. I was hoping Bernie Sanders would usher in the Great Green New Deal, but now we’ve been left with middling liberals who blush at war mongers while creating a spectacle around removing a minuscule amount of student loan debt.

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• Fleppensteijn@feddit.nl ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  I may be somewhere in the middle. I see students around me traveling the world like it’s nothing, eating and drinking out all the time… Maybe they’re doing something right. I’m saving up half of my salary every month but for what? It’s never enough to own my own home and I’ll never retire anyway. Maybe having a little luxury right now instead of saving for an unknown isn’t that bad.

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  • Fr0G@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    I got some advice and I’m still living it so I can’t say if it’s worth it but:

    “Spend money on the things you enjoy and cut everything else to the bare minimum”

    So if you like having a nice house more than going to a sporting event you shouldn’t be budgeting for the sporting event. Just don’t go. If you love great food but hate driving, buy kitchen accessories not dinners. That sort of thing.

    I’m not explaining it as well though

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• Binthinkin@kbin.social ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  By J.J. McCorvey and Brian Cheung. Terrible writers.

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