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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Genuinely curious for the folks complaining, what is keeping you from increasing your wealth? Forget the millionaires and billionaires, what’s keeping you from keeping a roof over your head and food on the table in this country? You can easily go to community college and then transfer to a state school and major in something practical. Or you can get into the trades, a good plumber or electrician can certainly make over $50k a year. If your spouse is pulling in an equivalent income (teacher, nurse, etc), that’s $100k a year. If you work for a larger company you’ll make less than if you work for yourself but they will cover health insurance. You can live in a studio apartment or even with roommates if you can’t rely on your family and do the whole beans and rice lifestyle ala Dave Ramsey for 2-3 years while you save money on a down payment for a starter home or condo. Good side gigs to help you get the down payment faster can be driving Uber on the weekends or Target ($15/hr right now and I’m not in DC). Or heck, even dog walking. I walked dogs in college on top of working at the college for my loans and made a solid $400 a week and got my exercise in, that was back in 2005. Some of my friends did bartending on the weekends. I saved up some money for a clunker with a passenger door that didn’t open and drove it into the ground, but I didn’t have any car payments or anything. I shopped at Goodwill. I couldn’t afford to live in the city after college, even with roommates, so I lived in an apartment complex in the suburbs for a bit. Furniture was IKEA and Habitat for Humanity Restore. You really don’t need much. I live more comfortably now and can afford to splurge a little now but did get a bigger mortgage after we sold the starter house because we wanted to be in a good school district because it’s not in the budget to go private. We aren’t millionaires but certainly doing better than our parents and we will be able to pay for our kids to go to state college so they don’t have to struggle like we did. Forget about the noise of politics and the influence of social media, set goals for yourself and work those goals with baby steps. [/quote]
Yet another privileged person who is has no self-awareness nor gratitude for the life she was given.[/quote]

OP is a troll. [/quote]
How do you know?[/quote]

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