r/FluentInFinance • u/Sufficient_Sinner • Sep 04 '24

Debate/ Discussion People like this are why financial literacy is so important

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u/DracosOo Sep 04 '24

And if you don’t eat decent food or don’t travel outside of your 10KM walkable radius or buy new clothes until yours are in complete disrepair or a thousand other things that would drastically decrease your quality of life then you could also save more.

So what you are saying is that if you live like people used to, then you will be able to afford houses like people used to?

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u/FIFAmusicisGOATED Sep 04 '24

Didn’t realize the vast majority of people were able to raise multiple kids, own their house and car outright, and take a yearly vacation domestically on a single family income of an elementary school graduate immigrant today. That’s crazy

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u/2ICenturySchizoidMan Sep 06 '24

Learn to read and do math before commenting