| Were you just born this year? Even with the past year's downturn, I've made a killing in the market over the past 3-4 years. Sorrynotsorry that you've made bad choices. Maybe get yourself a financial advisor since you're not good at this?? |
I just invest in index funds |
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Well I feel like I was born too early...there was no ACA when I was young, I had to leave my parents' insurance at age 22, there was no (federal) paid parental leave when I had my children, we didn't really have internet forums where you could research every college and career choice.
Every age has pros and cons. |
| OP is a half empty person. Work on your attitude. |
| OP I was born in 1980. I was born too early. I wish I could’ve stayed on my parents health insurance until age 26 like you! |
K boomer |
LOL. Cheer up, OP. You could've been a Boomer and have been drafted to Vietnam. Or born to children of the Great Depression. It was a barrel of laughs. |
+1. My grandparents are Holocaust survivors. Thank god I was born too late. Thank god I was born at all. Get a grip, OP. |
+2. I'd have been traded in an arranged marriage and probably would have died in childbirth. But hey, maybe my husband would have invested well for his second wife? |
+1 |
That doesn’t work because they’re literally not a boomer. |
Same here. Didn't buy our first house until we were 35. 30+ years later we've worked our way up to a less desirable portion of MoCo, and still have another 20 years on our mortgage. The only people who got a break recently were early millennials / later Xer's who graduated during boom years and immediately bought a house. |
| What are you complaining about? If you're a woman, you might be able to work from home if you become a mom. You don't know how lucky you are. The WFH jobs didn't exist not too long ago. |
The national debt is $31 trillion, and you want additional government spending?? How would additional spending work out? I think there is a huge amount of waste in Federal spending. It stimulates the economy but at what cost? I feel the private sector is the real driver in the economy. With the rise in government spending you will see more red tape and lower returns in the stock market. The entrance of the federal government into student loans has led to a much higher rise in college costs as a prime example. And also in healthcare you see government involvement driving up costs. Our defense budget is bloated because government is very inefficient in its spending and procurement. I could go on. |
This. Colleges also didn’t have pledges that poor kids would be debt free. If I were going to college today, I’d be debt free. I was top 5% and had a high SAT. My parents made $50k combined and had no savings. |