TubularTittyFrog
@TubularTittyFrog@lemmy.world
- Comment on Belgium’s 15-year-old prodigy earns PhD in quantum physics 4 days ago:
same here. socialization made me dumber and it actively discouraged learning and achievement.
becoming anti-social was the best thing I ever did for my mental health, and academics. my grades went from Cs to As once I stopped wasting time getting drunk with people who didn’t give a shit about me.
- Comment on Belgium’s 15-year-old prodigy earns PhD in quantum physics 4 days ago:
everything costs a cost.
is it better to be ‘normal’ than be extraordinary? you don’t know if this person is unhappy.
- Comment on People who say 'the rich get richer, the lazy live for free, and the middle class pays for it all' don't realize how expensive it is to be rich and how close middle class is to being below the poverty line. 1 week ago:
a lot of people are just idiots who don’t understand that money in has to be less than money out.
- Comment on People who say 'the rich get richer, the lazy live for free, and the middle class pays for it all' don't realize how expensive it is to be rich and how close middle class is to being below the poverty line. 1 week ago:
it’s relative to where you live.
where i live people make 300K a year and feel impoverished. if you go three hours away, making 30K a year is a total good salary.
- Comment on People who say 'the rich get richer, the lazy live for free, and the middle class pays for it all' don't realize how expensive it is to be rich and how close middle class is to being below the poverty line. 1 week ago:
no.
plenty of people rent their entire lives are fine. and plenty of people own homes get them foreclosed because they can’t afford the payments
- Comment on People who say 'the rich get richer, the lazy live for free, and the middle class pays for it all' don't realize how expensive it is to be rich and how close middle class is to being below the poverty line. 1 week ago:
because middle class is good and noble.
being poor or wealthy means your an asshole.
- Comment on People who say 'the rich get richer, the lazy live for free, and the middle class pays for it all' don't realize how expensive it is to be rich and how close middle class is to being below the poverty line. 1 week ago:
most doctors come from wealthy families. and if you are anything above a PCP, you’re making like 300K+ a year, you’re not labor class. you’re part of the 1%
- Comment on People who say 'the rich get richer, the lazy live for free, and the middle class pays for it all' don't realize how expensive it is to be rich and how close middle class is to being below the poverty line. 1 week ago:
apparently you’re not in poverty if you donate plasma? that’s a new talking point.
- Comment on People who say 'the rich get richer, the lazy live for free, and the middle class pays for it all' don't realize how expensive it is to be rich and how close middle class is to being below the poverty line. 1 week ago:
plenty of manual laborers make bank dude.
- Comment on People who say 'the rich get richer, the lazy live for free, and the middle class pays for it all' don't realize how expensive it is to be rich and how close middle class is to being below the poverty line. 1 week ago:
pretty much. this entire thread is just folks arguing over the meanings of middle class, and most of them denying it exists as if that is going to create class solidarity. it won’t.
- Comment on People who say 'the rich get richer, the lazy live for free, and the middle class pays for it all' don't realize how expensive it is to be rich and how close middle class is to being below the poverty line. 1 week ago:
yep. most of my co workers are like this. and socializing with them is miserable because they just complain how broke they are… and yet they are spend $1000s per month on stupid shit.
- Comment on People who say 'the rich get richer, the lazy live for free, and the middle class pays for it all' don't realize how expensive it is to be rich and how close middle class is to being below the poverty line. 1 week ago:
themselves.
there is no billionaire conspiracy dude. the average person is stupid and regularly does stupid shit that defaults their long term interests for perceived short term gains. it’s human nature.
the few people who can value their long term gains at the expense of the short term tend to be those that are upwardly mobile economically.
- Comment on People who say 'the rich get richer, the lazy live for free, and the middle class pays for it all' don't realize how expensive it is to be rich and how close middle class is to being below the poverty line. 1 week ago:
pretty easy. if you had a million in the bank at 4% return you’d have a income of 40K a year. if you could live on that income you’d be all set and not have to work.
so scale that up a bit, say 5 million in the bank at 5% return, that would be an income of 250,000K a year.
- Comment on People who say 'the rich get richer, the lazy live for free, and the middle class pays for it all' don't realize how expensive it is to be rich and how close middle class is to being below the poverty line. 1 week ago:
they spend it.
- Comment on People who say 'the rich get richer, the lazy live for free, and the middle class pays for it all' don't realize how expensive it is to be rich and how close middle class is to being below the poverty line. 1 week ago:
the rich are a lot more paranoid than the middle/working class.
- Comment on People who say 'the rich get richer, the lazy live for free, and the middle class pays for it all' don't realize how expensive it is to be rich and how close middle class is to being below the poverty line. 1 week ago:
working class is dirty. middle class is clean.
my parents hated my working class friends and their parents because they saw them as dirty gross people.
- Comment on People who say 'the rich get richer, the lazy live for free, and the middle class pays for it all' don't realize how expensive it is to be rich and how close middle class is to being below the poverty line. 1 week ago:
the people i know that bitch the most about being poor are the ones who are saving like 30% of their income for retirement.
they are just straight up morons whose perception of their financial reality is deeply distorted and often isolated from everyone else by their perception that ‘comfort’ requires 8 figures of wealth, when really most people with six figures of wealth are quite comfortable.
- Comment on People who say 'the rich get richer, the lazy live for free, and the middle class pays for it all' don't realize how expensive it is to be rich and how close middle class is to being below the poverty line. 1 week ago:
plenty of rich people debt spend.
- Comment on People who say 'the rich get richer, the lazy live for free, and the middle class pays for it all' don't realize how expensive it is to be rich and how close middle class is to being below the poverty line. 1 week ago:
what’s the cut off?
- Comment on People who say 'the rich get richer, the lazy live for free, and the middle class pays for it all' don't realize how expensive it is to be rich and how close middle class is to being below the poverty line. 1 week ago:
most people middle aged people with six figure careers are millionaires. that’s why the number of millionaires keeps going up.
- Comment on People who say 'the rich get richer, the lazy live for free, and the middle class pays for it all' don't realize how expensive it is to be rich and how close middle class is to being below the poverty line. 1 week ago:
actually most middle class voters voted and supported for the policies that destroyed them.
- Comment on Baby boomers want to axe property taxes. Millennials and Gen Z would pay for it. 1 week ago:
they’d rather buy a nicer car.
- Comment on Baby boomers want to axe property taxes. Millennials and Gen Z would pay for it. 1 week ago:
the problem is that every state that has done that has shit education system now. and the states that have the best public education are the ones who are most reliable on local property taxes…
- Comment on Is it bad if I'm 31 and I feel genuinely sad and empty that a mythical creature isn't real? 1 week ago:
day dreaming is fine dude.
being addicted to day dreaming as a replacement for other more healthy things… is not.
- Comment on Is it bad if I'm 31 and I feel genuinely sad and empty that a mythical creature isn't real? 1 week ago:
yeah there is something up with you. this is some sort of unhealthy obsessive coping mechanism. a crutch.
- Comment on xkcd #3167: Car Size 2 weeks ago:
Yeah. I am getting an Integra.
It’s the only decent cheap hatchback that is sporty that’s left.
- Comment on xkcd #3167: Car Size 2 weeks ago:
people like bigger cars for many other reasons.
they are more comfortable. they are safer, they fit more stuff. they have more features than smaller cars.
- Comment on We shouldn't have to go to college in order to afford a house by 30. 2 weeks ago:
the vast majority of ‘educated’ people in America know shit about the constitution, and most of those that do probably know wrong things.
the only people who really know much about the constitution are constitutional scholars. and even they deeply disagree about various aspects of it.
- Comment on xkcd #3167: Car Size 2 weeks ago:
those cars are large
- Comment on xkcd #3167: Car Size 2 weeks ago:
most teens are driving compact cars. don’t know what you are smoking.