• DaddleDew@lemmy.world
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    12 天前

    Looking back at my life having seen my salary slowly increase over my career, you always end up taking for granted what you once worked hard to get and comparing yourself with people who make more, making you want more. But nobody should make so little that they have to worry.

  • IninewCrow@lemmy.caEnglish
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    12 天前

    A handful of people want to be Masters Of The Universe and neurotically own every single penny and paper piece of money that ever existed and will exist in the future even if it means they will never fully enjoy much of that wealth during their lifetime.

    • Aceticon@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
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      12 天前

      This society deifies the crazy cat lady syndrome as long as it’s with money rather than cats and, worse, the actual crazy cat ladies are driven by good intentions whilst those obcessed with hoarding money are driven by almost the opposite kind of feeling.

      These people are literally sick people and the shitty system we have actually celebrates them and has laws designed to support the symptoms of their disease.

    • OpenStars@piefed.socialEnglish
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      12 天前

      I think it’s far worse than that, sadly. Some people chase after something - daddy / peer approval? - that they will never have, and certainly cannot buy with money, yet they’ve inappropriately decided to triple down on attaining more money as their means to solve their other personal issues. And then control all of society trying to get people to look down on anyone who does otherwise.

      Really they don’t even desire the money, like a zombie munching, yet unlike a living being’s hunger response from which it was originally born, it will never become sated, it’s just an endless intake with no purpose (anymore).

    • Sibbo@sopuli.xyz
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      12 天前

      Agree. There are these nice terms like house-poor or car-poor for people who buy things more expensive then they can afford, forcing them to make uncomfortable savings in other aspects of life.

      If you know that your current lifestyle is sustainable until you die, and males you happy, you are rich already in terms of money.

  • Hello_there@fedia.io
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    12 天前

    Due to the wonders of medical bankruptcy, that number you need to not worry gets higher every year

    • Korhaka@sopuli.xyzEnglish
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      12 天前

      We are not all American. Some of us can die in the corridor of an NHS hospital of an easily treatable illness instead. At no personal expense.

  • MNByChoice@midwest.social
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    12 天前

    Fun fact. There a lots of discussion in financial spaces that the money doesn’t stop the worry.

    It does remove many actual issues though.

    • TootSweet@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      12 天前

      doesn’t stop the worry.

      As someone who makes a lot more money than I did previously, I’d say it largely does, at least for me.

      I don’t spend anywhere near as much time:

      • Budgeting
      • Looking at my bank account balance
      • Deciding what needful thing I’ll neglect this month

      In short, I spend less time thinking about money, which means I spend less time worrying about money.

      It’s not like I don’t worry at all about money, but I do worry a lot less of the time, and less intensely.

      At this point, honestly, I think having more income might make me more stressed than I am now. Though I would like to be able to quit my day job for a business I own myself, maybe. As long as the income was reliable.

    • Sc00ter@lemm.ee
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      12 天前

      Id argue the real sense of worry is by living a life style below your means. As someone who has had to live pay check to paycheck, but has been fortunate enough to have a substantial increase in salary, dont spend all your money. If you dont change your habits with new money, the worry will fade away.

      You can stop keeping strict budgets on things and make them more vague. As long as savings account keeps going up, the worry fades

    • FundMECFS@slrpnk.netOP
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      12 天前

      Yes, but someone worrying about property tax increasing so they might have to take economy instead of business class on their annual Bahamas holiday, is not the same kind of worrying as:

      “Oh fuck if Trump cuts this program then I’ll have no choice but to crash at a friend’s place or live in my car”.

    • Sibbo@sopuli.xyz
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      12 天前

      What actually stops the worry is social security, such as state welfare or having a partner that earns a salary as well. This way, there is backup.

  • Sibbo@sopuli.xyz
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    12 天前

    Honestly, I don’t even want to have all that money at once. If just the job market is good enough that I will always be employed and earn a livable wage, that’s what makes it already. It’s a lot about trust in the economy, and knowing that there is a social system that prevents me from starving in case my education becomes worthless at some point.

    • the_q@lemm.eeEnglish
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      12 天前

      I feel kinda bad reading this reply because you’re trying so hard to be a good worker in a system that has literally indoctrinated you into being a good worker when the point of the meme is to not worry.

      • SupahRevs@lemmy.world
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        12 天前

        I think it is more about the nature of work in today’s world. I think if we each felt that our day to day labor contributed to a better world where we were taking care of eachother, we would be proud of our labor and have a desire to continue bringing about good things. But, a lot of us don’t see how our work helps the world, or if we do, we don’t share in the reward for doing so.

  • shoulderoforion@fedia.io
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    12 天前

    aaaaaand almost the entire capitalist system is built around the effort to reduce any individuals worth so that they are in a constant state of worry and need to continue to produce through their physical labor for the benefit of others. feudalism was worse. communism put capitalisms sins to shame with the absolute corruption, human rights abuse, and genocide (stalin slaughtered 20 million all on his own under the mantle of the ussr)

  • jjjalljs@ttrpg.network
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    12 天前

    There are some people who want to be wealthy to the tune of flaunting it, making other people figuratively or literally bow down to them. Those people should not be allowed to have power.

    If I was somehow a billionaire, I like to think I’d be spending my money on socially useful stuff. More libraries. More infrastructure. Housing. Can an ultra rich person essentially run public housing and transit, at least on a city-wide scale? Probably. but the kind of person who gets to be ultra rich is probably an asshole.

    • Landless2029@lemmy.world
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      12 天前

      And there’s the problem. The things good-people would do with thier money to better society don’t have a good return. You don’t grow or even maintain your wealth so it runs out.

      These diamond spoon assholes that hoard thier wealth like dragons are a product of their environment. Gotta be an asshole to make the line go up and never down.

    • Dyskolos@lemmy.zip
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      12 天前

      Our society (and by that I mean every society, no matter where you’re living) highly rewards the dark triad of personality disorders. And it literally punishes you (financially mostly) for being kind, humble, empathetic or just decent. So, to be a billionaire, you will simply have to be a mean piece of human garbage. By definition.

      We, as a species, are fucked. There is no way out of capitalism anymore and it only will get way worse. One reason I became anti-natalist long ago. Now boo me.

      • Kanda@reddthat.com
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        10 天前

        If this is true, then it would also fall into the category of being rich. This would make the OP read “I don’t want to be Elon Musk-rich, I just want to be retire-at-26-rich”

  • GrumpyDuckling@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
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    12 天前

    I wan’t to be rich enough that i can buy a company that other big companies rely on and just shut it down and switch to making something useful. Like some automotive supplier for Tesla and then they can’t make cars for a month or two.