As always, nothing makes !peakpoors seethe harder than telling them to live within their means. 
This post reeks of privilege portraying itself as advice. [+65]
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It just seems like someone who didn't work a job til after college, had their entire expenses paid for and had their parents help them with a down payment on their house preaching about finance, it's hysterical.
Majority of the case, your finances are an indicator of your upbringing. It's not the rule, but usually in the case I mentioned, that person didn't do anything special, they just had parents who helped them out. But because they did well, they want to convince themselves that they're just more responsible. Especially with the last gripe of “don't live on govt/others”, it's pretty clear you're incapable of considering any case where you do need to rely on government/others.
My parents have both been on disability since I was 16. My mom has had 2 strokes, and my dad had a really bad work injury and suffered moderate brain damage. Both of them are now incapable of working. So what do you consider they do for income instead? [+35]
1st gen cuban american. I've worked since I was 14 and my parents only gave me food and shelter. I paid my own way through college and bought my own house at 23 (funding the down payment myself).
I'm glad your disabled parents had govt/taxpayer support. Obviously disabilities might require some form of govt assistance, which is why those programs exist. My advice remains, whether one is disabled or not. Live below your means, work more/harder (as much and as hard as your mind/body can) to provide for yourself and your loved ones to the best of your ability.
Haters gonna hate. Whiners gonna whine. I prefer to suck it up and improve my lot no matter my circumstances nor my limitations. [-20]
This is just self righteous, mental masturbation. Just put it in your journal next time.
Personal responsibility is a dirty word on Reddit
Spoken like a nepo-baby who got a "small loan of a million dollars" handed to them.
This isn't educational, it's abundantly ignorant to the reality that much of the population is facing.
We have hundreds of thousands dying in poverty. They are not "living above their means" and people who rely on the government don't have a choice. This idea that it's "optional" would be hilarious if people weren't actively dying because they are unable to afford basic necessities for survival.
We need to be expanding these programs right now because the current state of poverty in the US is unacceptable and it's been getting much worse with inflation.
In that article you posted they didn't talk about how poverty is actually killing people, they just kept saying that it kills and says it's the 4th leading cause of death but yet accidents are the the 4th highest.
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literally keep themselves safe
For time immemorial we have built communities and families to help support ourselves.
We had plenty of grandkids to support us in old age. We worked hard for our community, went to church, and helped others so that hopefully, when our time of need arose, they might help us in return.
the fricking "disabled" could find some way. any way, to work. and if not they must rely on that family. and live everyday knowing how big a fricking burden they are.
In a fricking matter of decades all of this has been destroyed. by what, b-word? welfare itself.
why bother maintaining good relationships and family ties or going to church or taking part in the fricking community at all when the fricking check comes in either way.
this shit was fricking capable of judging character. useles
won't get as much charity as a fricking guy who is fricking genuinely down on his luck. the fricking neetbux roll all the fricking same.
the fricking entitled. the fricking grifters. the fricking junkies. all would fail to recieve any handouts when it came from people who knew them and the fricking validity of their sob story.
the fricking government is fricking indiscriminate and the fricking redditor loves this because it expects nothing of him.
why have those expensive kids when you're guaranteed govbucks when you retire, b-word? everyone expects everyone else to foot the fricking bill for kids to pay their social security lmao.
why is no fricking one having children??
now we have to import infinity foreigners forever 
the fricking redditor is fricking atomized. he does not understand community. beyond online ones. and the fricking state. his best friend the fricking state.
always there to lend a fricking helping hand no matter how hard he bites it.
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LBJ's Great Society was a failure but we're in so deep nobody wants to admit it.
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Lyndon "Ill be having BIPOCs voting democrat for the next 100 years" Johnson
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my dad was on "disability" which basically meant he couldn't go outside or he'd get caught as not really disabled but being forced to stay in just made him angry and miserable so he spent the whole time drinking and beating me
frick welfare
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That dad's name?
Dr Penelope Oaken, MD, JD
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Sounds like a miserable existance
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