See! You’re not THAT poor. Just give it another few decades!

  • Bronzie@sh.itjust.works
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    1 day ago

    We seem to have followed a similar path, but I am quite satisfied. I do have a family though, so maybe that’s what does it….

    It sucked making sacrifices in my 20’s, but looking at where I landed, I would not change it if I could. Would you?

    Don’t get me wrong; We are nowhere close to rich, but we managed to buy a decent house and not having to wory about the price of groceries and the bills every month, and that’s all we really need.

    Early 30’s for reference.

    • bigschnitz@lemmy.world
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      19 hours ago

      I’m not sure I could be happy if I hadn’t made the choices I made, poverty felt like a prison so I did what was necessary to set myself up. I played the hand I was dealt and I think I played it reasonably well, but if I was born in easier times I’d have definitely made different choices.

      I don’t the insinuation that “millennials had the opportunity to achieve wealth like their parents” these type of articles make, it feels dismissive of the sacrificed youth and relationships.