• MotoAsh@lemmy.world
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    2 months ago

    Dude, you don’t even factor in taxes. Your ability to budget is pathetic.

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      2 months ago

      This is all back of the envelope math, but yeah, I’ve made it work on less money than that in a more expensive market both in terms of taxes and cost of living.

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        2 months ago

        “Worked for me so fuck everyone else.”

        Your sense of sympathy is legendary… Almost as good as your ability to budget without factoring in … literally almost any detail.

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          2 months ago

          If you make $54,000 a year and can’t find a place to live other than your car, that’s a “you” problem.

          I’d also be super worried about what he’s teaching kids, hope to god not Personal Finance.

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            2 months ago

            You quite literally do not know what you’re talking about. Your obstinance does not make you correct. It makes you fucking stupid.

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              2 months ago

              As an adult who has made a living on less money in a more expensive market without being forced to live in a car, yeah, I do know what I’m talking about.

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        2 months ago

        I’ve made it work

        False consensus says what?

        Now let’s add chaos:

        • car troubles
        • car accident
        • non-car accident
        • recurring injury like a back strain
        • COVID and 10 day quarantine

        That’s a thousand- to a million-dollar hit. What’s the plan for absorbing that?

        Teachers in Canada make less, but don’t have the spectre of financial ruin from injury or illness hanging over them.

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          2 months ago

          I was making $50,000 a year when my spine tried to kill me and I ended up taking 10 vicodin a day just to survive. 2 to get out of bed, 2 when I got to work, 2 at lunch, 2 when I got home, and 2 to be able to sleep. I didn’t miss work. I made my rent payments.

          I was miserable, but I figured it out.