Oh boy, this is gonna be a good one

Sorry to start the weekend off with a negative post, but I'm wondering if anyone else is noticing what seems to be the insane amount of garbage on the sides of the roads? I just dropped some family members off at Metro airport (coming from the Waterford and Clarkston areas) and we all noticed that all the roads, including minor side roads, are just lined with tons of trash. I know this happens sometimes in the winter when there's a big snow melt and all the accumulated trash appears, but we haven't had any snow yet this year, and I don't ever remember it being this bad, so what gives? Are people just chucking all their garbage out of their car windows? It's everywhere.

There is no recession

https://www.cnbc.com/select/us-credit-card-debt-hits-all-time-high

https://www.cnbc.com/2023/04/27/us-personal-savings-rate-falls-near-record-low-as-consumers-spend.html

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/homes-for-sale-affordable-housing-prices

Dont believe your lying eyes , its not a recession if we dont call it one

>In the end the Party would announce that two and two made five, and you would have to believe it. It was inevitable that they should make that claim sooner or later: the logic of their position demanded it. Not merely the validity of experience, but the very existence of external reality was tacitly denied by their philosophy.~George Orwell,

This r-slurred take is something most Poors actually believe - more money comes with longer hours and harder work.

Working a 8am-5pm has broken me. I want to go back to being a server working 4pm-9pm everyday making barely $120/day and $300+ on weekends. I was much happier and had much less responsibilities. My life is good don't get me wrong, but I had much more time for leisure. I wasn't necessarily a bum but enjoyed being able to workout, make myself breakfast and lunch before a shift, maybe play some video games, take a nap, go into work. Now I sit behind a computer all day and basically eat garbage for lunch. I call people all day I'll never meet in person nor do I care to. I'm too tired after work to do anything. I have contemplated for a while now on quitting my job and becoming a server at a high end restaurant again or go work some simple 20/hr job like everyone else my age so I can get my free time back. Only thing stopping me is my parents who will shun me because of my degree. I have one other friend who has their weekends off like me since we are relatively young (24M been at this job since 22. with careers. Everyone else works weekends so I am constantly doing shit by myself. I make more money than all my friends so everything I like to do/want to do is out of their price range.

Everyone in the west thinks " I don't care what job I have as long as I make 100k/year I'll be happy". Not true. Newsflash you won't be. You work dumb hours, get like 1 day to actually chill, and then your back to the same cycle. I'll never chase a job because of salary again. I have a degree but man is it really worth it to give up your whole day for nothing? I'm literally working the day after holiday while tons of people are on vacation/or have the day off?

Unpopular opinion is that I'd rather make less money and be happy than well off and miserable. Sure no one likes you when your poor but no one likes you when you're miserable either. I don't want to be rich anymore. I just want to be happy.

https://old.reddit.com/r/Tinder/comments/15j2ze1/dating_in_a_rural_area_is_an_unmitigated

https://old.reddit.com/r/Tinder/comments/15y6wjm/dating_in_a_rural_area_is_an_unmitigated

https://old.reddit.com/r/Tinder/comments/18n0h7m/dating_in_a_rural_area_is_an_unmitigated

It's a 3 parter! Pics here if you're too to go to Reddit

Dude lost $80 and wants courts to get involved lol

Your shill it example an retail down more than 60% just on amc ,, you cheer fake post showing large transactions

😂 did pfof hold a gun to your head and force you to buy that call on this shitty butt stock. Take a look in the mirror and accept some responsibility for your bad decision.

Ur mother did .. I did it all for her .. with recent buy in an money inflow should have more movement . An Evs are about too have there turn in rotation. , PFOF SHOWES THEM ALL OUR TRADES OP

Hey OP, You need to stop getting so defensive about people's shitposting comments. half of them are legit just trying to get a reaction out of you. I too expected NIO to go up because of the new battery they just announced. But hedge fricks dont give a frick, they will do crime day in and day out as long as their punishment is an itty bitty slap on the wrist fine. Yeah PFOF needs to fricking go. It by default causes market makers to make dark pools. which is very against the free market and price discovery. But what really needs to happen is jail time for these fricks. Above and beyond banning PFOF. Also shorting should be illegal.Edit: Also you only have yourself to kick in the butt for buying options. That's your mistake. coming and bitching that you made a bad move will only make people laugh at you.

I know I watch some of their accounts an other comments .. some of them are bot/ hive no mind of their own. Will praise 100k trade or 1m trade when it's fake an put out too manipulate,then bash everyday traders like themselves ..

OP either has room temperature IQ or is just terrible at shit posting

Or your a shill .. you're not yep like an follow fake trade post op

Of course, OP is also an AMC and GME holder. Reminder if you're invested in a stock with any sort of community present on Reddit you need to sell immediately.

https://old.reddit.com/r/facepalm/comments/18nmhbi/principal_shows_off_an_alumnus

Happy ending

Had to break it up cause this website is gay

Love peace and chicken grease buds n

Amber, 27, Las Angeles CA

For context, her boyfriend volunteered her to come on the show

Career:

• "Webshow host and producer, my show is called 'Healing Amber'"

  • "getting that off the ground and running"

• Making comercials on social media

  • She's advertising payday loans for $200

• Trying to move away from "user generated content" because "It's been feeling too hypercapitalistic" timestamp

• "I'm balancing, trying to participate in a capitalistic society that I really resent because I wanna be able to change this country from the inside out -" timestamp

  • "I mean you can vote like everyone else"

    • [in a new accent I can't place] "No no nooooo that doesn't make a difference"

• Commerical gig work basic details timestamp

  • $300 - $1000 for one ad

  • Doing 3-5 a month

• "I'm trying to get my inner reality to finally reflect on the outside so there was a whole history of some seriously traumatic shit that went down in Las Angeles, and before hand, and I really froze up and stopped participating in life, you could say? And I let others support me and I've put in a little bit of energy here and there to support myself but luckily now that I've done all this inner work and I have been realigning my life - that UGC work, the commercial work, it didn't feel aligned, so I'm doing this easy job like let's say-"

  • "What's the easy job"

    • "like let's say I put in 30 minutes for an AG One Greens commercial where they're like 'Why's your skin so glowy? and I'm like AG One!' you know, that kind of thing. So cool I've just made 300 off of that but why do I not feel fufilled and why am I not taking my time to actually participate more so what I've found feels best right now is helping small businesses. So I'm taking the skills that I used in creating social media ads, you could say, and I'm turning it into my consulting and production company."

• "I wear my expensive clothes and I buy my dog the expensive food and I do all this shit that will make me like, make me feel better when really actually gaining some sovereignty and some independence will make me feel better in the heart and so now I'm also turning, I guess, I'm playing you say two side of the point, I'm doing the work that doesn't feel good to survive, bearly, because there's so much resistance there but now, I am actually just inthe middle of my first pitch deck to a client in order to consult them in social media authenticity"

  • timestamp

• Caleb realizes all of this was evasion about an actual income number

  • timestamp

  • She doesn't know because she avoids looking at her bank accounts

• Doesn't want to do other work

• Living situation timestamp

  • Molding, whole building management company is getting sued?

  • Hasn't had to pay rent?

  • "I've manifested a life at this point where I am taken care of so much by other people"

    • "Manifested a life?"

      • "Subconsciously."

        • "Okay."

          • "Subconsciously my inner aspects and inner children have felt safest when others are supporting us rather than we are supporting ourselves because then it means we're not alone."

            • "Do you see a therapist?"

              • "I see many therapists, coaches, I'm also a coach to a certain extent, so yeah what's annoying is I am hyper-aware"

                • "You're a coach? A spiritual coach?"

                  • "I'm a spiritual healer and holistic health coach"

  • "How do we feel comfortable by any means giving anyone advice on life if you're if you are just failing in the United States" timestamp

  • "What I coach people about is how to find joy and healing in the present moment"

  • "What I do away from my time participating in capitalism has been some intence butt inner work and I just teach that"

• Total income for last month

  • $2'891

  • Has EBT, food stamps

  • Was getting 281 a month, knocked down $100 since she made more this month

• "It's interesting because like you're choosing not to work though" timestamp

  • Transferred from a career tutoring little kids "making a lot of money doing that, like $100 a session but then for some reason more on camera stuff was calling me and I got into the acting the music videos the dancing, all of that LA bullshit"

  • "two summers ago I was grossly sexually harassed at a music video" timestamp

• "Will you hold my hand for a second I need connection" timestamp

• "A lot of [those costs] I think are for supplements that I think are gonna like save me" timestamp

  • Specifically names: Magnesium, Lyposomol and something else I can't make out

• "This is why I believe in Divine Timing, everything is a Divine Appointment, the timing of me being invited on your show could not have been better because the inner work is caught up and now we're ready for the external reality to reflect the internal" timestamp

• [About her dog] "We have a psychic connection and nervous systems are co-regulated so anything th-" timestamp

  • "Okay"

Financials:

• Navy Federal: $502 => $509 timestamp

  • $30 in fee so far this year

  • "That one's negative six dollars, I think, right now"

    • "No we're talking about the checking account, er we're talking about the credit card not the checking account"

      • "oh gross, okay, okay, okay okay"

  • She didn't make a payment on this, credit limit is $500

  • Why didn't you pay it? timestamp

    • "Yeah, okay, this is clearly a disociation issue."

  • "I love to claim responsibility for the way that my life is to a certain extent but systemtically the way that the world is set up to oppress certain groups of people, I feel fricking oppressed as shit"

    • "Why are you oppressed?"

      • "That being a woman in this world and someone who wants to go to court for shit somebody who wants to speak out about the abuses of power in this whole world. Banks are an abuse of power."

        • "Sure, but credit cards, we're talking about credit cards here"

  • "About a thousand dollars of those credit card bills was caused by hmm okay, it was my built but I trusted a man on seeking arangements .com who said that he would give me like 5'000 if we went on a date together"

    • they never went on the date

  • "So to be clear, you think the system is why you're in credit card debt?" timestamp

    • "Yean, I think the system is to blame for it, why a lot of people are in poverty"

  • "These were all a choice but" timestamp

    • Borderline schizobabble about free will because a "professor" at Stanford said there is no free will

    • "It's basically West World, dude" "They cancelled [West World] because West World knew what was up"

• Student Loans: 27'000 timestamp

  • On forbearance because of her income?

    • Actually she's not timestamp

  • Student Loan discussion really starts timestamp

  • interest rates between 3% and 5%

  • She thinks it's around $27'000

  • Went to Syracuse University for Sports Journ*lism

    • "Do you like sports?"

      • "Ummm honestly, no! I got into sports because my dad likes sports"

    • Worked for Fox Sports after college but was making $18 an hour

    • I'll call them today

      • Ummm actually I'll call them tomorrow because I was going to do some 'plant medicine' to get my mind right after talking to you

        • "Does that just mean smoke weed?"

          • "The other 'plant medicine'"

• Babble about how her childhood was chaotic and 'scary discomfort' timestamp

• "Everytime I'm feeling lonely scared or anxious I'll go online and post a story telling my story hoping that it helps somebody else I try to get my partner to take care of me, in the past it was random sugar daddies" timestamp

Card 2: $3984 timestamp

• 2000 above the credit limit

• Lots of fees

• $158 Kap Mentorship timestamp

  • Spirital Healing training

  • Her expenses are fricking insane

  • Big into raki?

• "Actually everywhere in the United STates has a mold issue, and that's something I'm trying to raise awareness of so I can help my own situation" timestamp

• "How are you getting home?" timestamp

  • She is flying from Austin to DC to meet with her "business consultant" to take care of her taxes and budget?

• Weird twitching timestamp

• Took 4 dollars out of her Roth IRA, doesn't know why

• "I had a man buy my motorcycle and eventually I owe him but there's no deadline on that" timestamp

  • 3300 and she's made two payments "of 10 percent"

  • No contract

• Caleb tries to watch her podcast timestamp

  • Oh my God

They took the job offer back because I told them I couldn't afford a suit, because I'm poor. Which is why I applied to the job. So I could afford things. And Not Be Poor. https://t.co/uaKiPtNJiv pic.twitter.com/eaCDQtbBeu

— Ursen (@Ursen_) December 20, 2023

Peasant renters ruin it for everyone

https://old.reddit.com/r/Landlord/comments/18kieoy/landlord_dc_sperm_smeared_everywhere

Someone link them to love for landchads

https://old.reddit.com/r/Landlord/comments/18kieoy/landlord_dc_sperm_smeared_everywhere/kdrapl3?context=8

Trueanon socialists seethe

https://old.reddit.com/r/TrueAnon/comments/18m6nr1/landlord_dc_sperm_smeared_everywhere

Cumtagging

Christa, 33, Las Vegas NV

Career:

• Stripper

• "I work at a nice one"

• Average between 10'000 and 12'000 a month

  • Thinks she's at 120k yearly

• Gets VA disability, was in Navy for 6 years

  • 2'000 + Free healthcare

• 1099 contractor timestamp

  • Paid in 2021, hasn't paid 2022, hasn't saved for 2023

  • Thinks she owes about $60'000

    • Might be closer to $40'000

  • Has an accountant, has been "avoiding them"

  • Filed for an extension on this years?

• Summer didn't go so well, $4-$5k, November $13k

• While stationed in California went to school, worked restaurant jobs, started doing 'bottle service' at a club in San Diego, then into modeling, got into a school in Orange county? Was living in a van in Orange County, wanted to do a grad program with the GI program instead of using it for undergrad (age 29). Met some Vegas strippers/prostitutes who suggested stripping, started working for first club?

  • Was studying sociology

  • "The only way to make money with a sociology degree is to become a stripper"

• 6 months stripping, then Covid, then clubs opened up again, she quits school and goes back to stripping

• Says club has a couple 40 year olds and a 50 year old who are still making good money but acknowleges that her career's got a time limit

  • Planning to do this for 5 years max

  • Hates it but likes the money timestamp

• Got a boob job, had them done previously, "one of them fell out of the pocket and was rolling around on my chest like an egg yolk so I had to get that fixed"

• Purchased a property in Arizona an hour outside of Vegas that she plans on turning into an AirBnB or "event space"

  • Getting serious Big Short vibes, timestamp.

  • Doing renovations, paid "a lot" in cash, 9000 on a credit card though

• Trivia about laws detailing many inches a thong can be timestamp

• Can she write off her boobs? (No) timestamp

Financials:

• Card 1 $9032 => $9094:

  • $600 in payments

  • $505 in transactions

  • $150 in interest

  • $10000 credit limit

  • Thinks she pays another 500 to a thousand

  • $1200 total in interest this year and $10 in fees

• Canceled 2 cards that she had used for online shopping, just paying them off

• Loan 1 20'130: timestamp

  • 7% loan

  • $564 minimum payment

  • Past due, she already paid it though, she says

  • Truck loan, had a minivan, got into an accident "wasn't my fault"

  • Buys furniture and flips it?

    • Has also been doing a lot of the house renovations herself?

  • "Perhaps I should have gotten something a little more modest"

    • "I love this truck to death, it's a great truck"

• Boob loan 7'400 timestamp

  • 0% if she pays it off in a year

  • Needs to be paid off by end of next September

  • Original total not mentioned

• Card 2 $26'453 => $27'016 => timestamp

  • 649 in payments

  • 838 in transactions, $399 in interest

  • $27'000 credit limit (she's over it now)

  • Says she paid $3'000 to this after the statement, it's at 24'000 now

  • wtf is on here:

    • $3'000 of plumbing

    • Home Depot purchases

  • $3'000 in interest this year

• Loan 5'859 timestamp

  • 15% interest

  • Took it out because she thought she was gonna buy a mobile home but the deal "fell through" took this out to consolidate debt

  • 726 minimum payment

Property Loan $67'000 => $60'000 timestamp

• Doesn't own other property

• She thinks it's 5% interest, actually it's 10%

  • "Default interest Rate" of 5% and an "Interest Rate" of 5%

    • Total 10%

• $90'000 house, she put some cash down

  • 1 acre, good area

  • half-hour from Grand Canyon, good tourist destination

  • "If the demand's there why was it so cheap?"

    • "because umm.... the area itself, the local population, is pretty poor and umm... you know so a lot of locals weren't able to buy it"

    • Property sat for a year before she purchased?

• Put in a new HVAC, new roof, fixed structural damage, new kitchen, new counter

• $0 ending balance in her checking timestamp

  • Had to take time off from work while recovering boobjob

  • Fair bit of eating out

  • Overdrafted

• Schwab

  • I think this is retirment? Not certain

    • Later mentioned it's an index

  • $15'000

• Retirment from military

  • Was at 27k, down to 21k now

• Invested in "stupid stuff" also, individual stonks timestamp

  • T-Mobile, and energy company and a few weed companies

• Rent timestamp

  • Bought a mobile home with one of the personal loans

  • $20'000

  • $380 a month to park mobile home in the lot

  • Thinks a one bedroom is $1500 monthly, so she's saving even with the loan's interest?

Like it's an actual addiction for them. I talked to this guy who owns a 2019 Hellcat, 2017 M4, 2018 Armada, and a bunch of other cars. He's had to do >$10k engine rebuilds because he wrecked them with puerto rican power mods. He makes $50k/yr, lives in a super expensive area, and has tons of debt

I had to resist the urge to vomit

Oh

Casual racism in my fb group?

But for real tho I miss the Cookie Monster pajama hoes from the early 2000s

Orange site: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38618111

Game and toy maker Hasbro announced it will cut roughly 1,100 jobs on Monday. When added to the 800 layoffs made earlier this year, the total amounts to just less than one-third of the company's entire labor force. The news comes exactly two weeks ahead of Christmas, traditionally the biggest holiday of the year for game and toy sales.

"We entered 2023 expecting a year of change including significant updates to our leadership team, structure, and scope of operations," said CEO Chris Peepees in a memo to his employees that was shared with Polygon. "We anticipated the first three quarters to be challenging, particularly in Toys, where the market is coming off historic, pandemic-driven highs. While we have made some important progress across our organization, the headwinds we saw through the first nine months of the year have continued into Holiday and are likely to persist into 2024."

The news likely comes as no surprise to insiders, including investors, who have been tracking the shortfalls of the company's toy portfolio for some time. Meanwhile, Hasbro subsidiary Wizards of the Coast, which publishes both Dungeons & Dragons and Magic: The Gathering, is experiencing all-time highs for both revenue earned and the number of players engaged in those brands. Activist hedge fund Alta Fox attempted to push the Rhode Island-based company to spin off Wizards in 2022, but the effort was defeated in a high-profile shareholder election in June 2022. Now the 100-year-old company is left to rebuild in 2024.

Polygon reached out to the tabletop teams impacted by these layoffs, including Avalon Hill, Magic: The Gathering, and Dungeons & Dragons. One representative said that the company is "not sharing breakdowns on geography or teams out of respect for employees." Impacted workers are expected to be contacted by the end of the business day Tuesday.

"Cost-cutting is not a strategy," Peepees added. "We know this, and that's why we'll continue to grow and invest in several areas in 2024."

One area of investment for Hasbro appears to be the video game sector. Its latest project, Exodus, made a big splash last week at The Game Awards. Following the success of Baldur's Gate 3, which was produced under license by Larian Studios, Wizards' own Archetype Entertainment appears to have a solid footing. Founded by veterans of BioWare, the studio behind Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic, Baldur's Gate, Neverwinter Nights, and the Mass Effect trilogy, the game will be released on PlayStation 5, Windows PC, and Xbox Series X. It currently has no release date.

Hasbro stock has fallen some 20% this year according to The Wall Street Journal, with today's price down slightly on the news. Long-term investors, meanwhile, are expected to continue to earn dividends at a rate of 5.8% annually according to Google Finance. Peepees earned a reported $9.4 million last year --- his first year as Hasbro's CEO. At the new price point of $59.95, that's roughly equivalent to 156,797 copies of the Player's Handbook.

Update (Dec. 13): As of Wednesday morning, social media posts in the wake of Hasbro's cuts show the impact across Wizards of the Coast, from IT staff to presenters to game designers and artists. Layoffs even include foundational members of the 5th edition Dungeons & Dragons team, meaning that those who built the most successful version of the seminal RPG will not be there as it turns 50 in 2024.

Degree in Literature

Even redditors aren't having it

LOL xhe appears in the thread /u/MohnJilton

!nooticers !transphobes

https://old.reddit.com/r/okc/comments/18fv6gf/i_swear_to_god_if_this_city_votes_yes_tomorrow

I really hate mfers who say sportsball

https://old.reddit.com/r/okc/comments/18fxwxo/sports_stadiums_dont_spur_economic_growth

Unhinged lmao

https://www.reddit.com/r/okc/s/qQCQjKzdyX

Pure fantasies lmao

Anyways this shit better pass

Mega thread

https://old.reddit.com/r/okc/comments/18gkw7m/election_day_mega_thread

Let's now consider the Mehinaku, an indigenous community located in a remote part of central Brazil.

I'm going to dwell on this society at some length, because they are explicitly and self-consciously a nonviolent society. The Mehinaku go out of their way to maintain peace with neighboring communities that are more aggressive and confrontational.

Yet even this community exhibits familiar patterns regarding cultural conceptions of masculinity and manhood.

The Mehinaku reside among impassable streams and waterfalls, making their territory inaccessible to all but the most determined outsiders. They depend on river and lake fish for protein, and the men are expected to go on long fishing expeditions to distant waters, over rough and hazardous terrain, sometimes for days or weeks.

The Mehinaku men are very concerned about their manhood. For them, manliness is a status equivalent to the highest social virtue. A man's prestige comes not necessarily from being a good man in some abstract moral sense, but from being good at being a man. This entails living up to the 3 rules I mentioned before regarding provisioning, protection, and mastery documented by Martin Seager.

The Mehinaku men earn their laurels by trying to outperform the others in fishing prowess and in accumulating property such as cowtools and other goods. The community judges a man's industriousness, his willingness to go on long and arduous fishing trips to distant lakes and streams, often over treacherous terrain where rival coalitions might ambush and attack them.

A fear of economic inadequacy haunts these men. They experience intense anxiety about appearing slothful or lethargic. When a man returns from a dangerous fishing expedition, he is expected to appear immediately in the village plaza, where people gather expectantly. He then ostentatiously displays his catch before distributing it unsparingly. The anthropologist David Gilmore, describing the norms within this community, notes that, “The hallmark of a real man is that he is selfless…he always shares his food.” In contrast, men who are stingy are seen as “parasitic” and “despised as freeloaders.”

The Mehinaku instill a sense of hard work, civic duty, and the conventional understanding of manliness into little boys. For example, if a boy sleeps in late, or lounges about, or refuses to accompany his father on his fishing expeditions, he is mocked and called a “little girl.”

Moreover, a boy is often warned that if he is lazy, then when he grows up he will be undesirable to women. Thus, this community has managed to ignite the cauldron of young male energy and channel it away from warfare with neighboring communities and toward economic productivity, industriousness, and generosity, with a coinciding increase in desirability to potential romantic partners.

As I mentioned, the Mehinaku fight no wars and are regarded as a non-violent society.

https://www.robkhenderson.com/p/understanding-the-young-male-syndrome

If you made 100k a year where I grew up, you could buy a house every single year. Not a mortgage or down payment, you could pay for the full cost of quite a few houses with less than a 100k.

Start off with this worthless anecdote (they reveal later they grew up in rural Appalachia mountains).

This. Majority of times people don't manage their money. 100k is enough if you not buying nonsense. I know people that live in less and do better

Or single mom with 2 kids, a $3300 monthly mortgage, (my house is 50 years old) and prices just keep going up.... got a hybrid to help on gas... just got my car tab bill and it was almost $600.... I feel like I'm constantly drowning, despite making more on paper than both my parents combined....

Buying a hybrid to help on gas . Includes the rent to give us a good idea she can't somehow make it on $4,000 a month after taxes and mortgage .

Not disagreeing with your main point, but I want to point out that as a fellow grad student, we tend to forget we do have subsidized apartments, free healthcare, comparatively very small commutes on avg etc on top of our salary.

Uhh none of that was true for me or anyone else at my school, or most of the grad students I've interacted with, aside from basic (non-dental/vision) healthcare being included in the funding package for some programs. We lived in the city because it was generally cheaper than living near campus and we did not have subsidized housing. Rent took up about thirty percent of my stipend.

So in other words, you lived nowhere near where you wanted to live? Thats a big thing about the COL in relation to the 100k target OP laid out.

Also, were you a student pre-pandemic? Were you a student pre-pre pandemic? The costs have only rise insanely high in the last 4 years. 5 years ago you could have bought a house in my neighbourhood for 150k, today its 500k.

Now imagine making 100k a year and having to rent a 400k condo in order to live in a decent neighbourhood, walk to work, have any space at all, etc. And all of a sudden now youre meant to somehow save for a down payment while rent sucks up half of your 100k a year paycheque.

And I know what youre going to say. "4k is way too much for rent, you need a cheaper apartment" and of course, you would need to rent a cheaper apartment, in a less nice neighbourhood, and smaller, with fewer amenities... But remember.. youre making 100k a year, how is that not a ridiculous situation to be in?

This is a different responder (or they forgot to log back into the account) but it's delightfully weird. All kinds of leaps in logic and even uses a stupid measure (rent a $400k condo) hoping you wouldn't think about how much this person is actually paying for rent. Can you imagine not living exactly where you want? Not I.

Where I live, to rent a three bedroom house costs about $3,500 per month.

If you assume mom and dad both have a car and car insurance, assume a family cell phone plan, electric and gas bills, gas for the car, assume a normal amount of credit card debt and assume a normal assortment of medical expenses and assorted media payments... Then add groceries for a family of four, plus some dental/orthodontist/medical costs for the kids, you're up to needing about $6k let month just to break even.

$6k per month is about what you'll make after taxes if you earn $10k per month, which is $120k per year. So that's about the break even point for a middle class family of four.

This poor guy carefully crafted this scenario where he came up with all the expenses he could for a family of four but they only went up to $70k a year. So he just assumes a 40% tax rate (it's more like 15%).

Massive generalization: Jobs that pay this well tend to exist in expensive areas. I can see how someone making 125k with kids in NYC would legitimately struggle, but you'd be a very rich man in my little town.

This. Our house old income is 300k…we also bought a house for 700k and had to bid 100k over asking price. It's wild out there…

To put things into perspective, before buying a home, we were paying $2600 for a 1 br, 800 sqft apartment.

I can't tell if this is a humblebrag, a lie, or he just completely misread what this post was saying. There are also a lot of similar responses too. Just to save you some effort, even if this person lived in California and bought this house at a 7% mortgage rate they would be netting about $17,500 a month and the mortgage would be like $6,000-7,000.

I live in NYC, I Make 6 figures. It's easy to not have money when

-the cheapest dirty takeout food place costs $40.

-Groceries while coupon clipping is $500 a week.

Now this guy is definitely a liar. Lists a bunch of other things.

Single mom of 3, Sonoma county. Rent with no utilities going for over $3k. When my landlord passed a rent increase on to me that brought my rent to $3,650, I balked and gave up lease figuring I would find something. Oops. Now can't find a place, seems new market rate. Now paying a hotel what rent was and my things that are important are in storage. Stopped tonight and bought- clementines, crackers, chicken, Parmesan cheese and some kalmatta olives and wtf almost $80!! Can't seem to save and get ahead.

“Single mom of 3”

Stopped reading. There's your answer

A ton of other posts where you know they're either just making up numbers that feel right, or there's $700 a month worth of uber eats orders they're not mentioning.