I read that half of Americans couldn’t cover an unexpected $1,000 expense. This sounds crazy to me. I understand that poverty exists, but the idea that an adult with a job doesn’t even have that amount saved up seems really strange.

What’s your relationship or philosophy with money? What do you credit for your financial success, or alternatively, what do you blame for your failures?

For the extra brave ones: how much savings do you have, and what are you planning to do with them?

  • @SupraMario
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    92 months ago

    What makes you think plumbers aren’t helping society? Same goes for all trades…like damn.

    • @Cryophilia
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      22 months ago

      Fucking entitled white collar douchebags. I guarantee plumbers help society more than fucking social workers.

    • @[email protected]
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      2 months ago

      “Society” doesn’t pay plumbers… Like, you don’t get your plumbing fixed and bill Medicaid you know? Individuals pay for their own plumbing, and plumbers get to set their own prices… The jobs I listed are most often paid by society as a whole, and society as a whole are screwing these professions over… Don’t get me wrong, most workers are getting screwed, it’s just different.

      • @SupraMario
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        02 months ago

        Society does pay plumbers, the fuck are you talking about. Where do you think the money comes from? If someone needs to hire a plumber, then they pay the plumber directly instead of their taxes doing it. It sounds like you’re salty that the government pays you vs making more being in the private sector.