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0 pointswiseowise1y ago0 comments

“Guhuh just fununcially aducate urself”

Do they teach in school how to invest when you can barely afford food and have no disposable income? Must be easy to talk shit when sitting on your cushy white collar job.

Stop simping for billionaires, it’s pathetic.

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blackeyeblitzar1y ago

If you read the article you would see that every bracket has some disposable income. The middle 60% (which isn’t the top 10% from the headline) spends more than $1000 a year on vacation. Cut that in half and invest $500 a year into the market and you would have a few hundred thousand for retirement (way more than typical retirement savings).

Also, in response to these…

> “Guhuh just fununcially aducate urself”

> Must be easy to talk shit when sitting on your cushy white collar job.

> Stop simping for billionaires, it’s pathetic.

…I suggest reading the site guidelines:

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

wiseowiseOP1y ago

> The middle 60% (which isn’t the top 10% from the headline) spends more than $1000 a year on vacation. Cut that in half and invest $500 a year into the market and you would have a few hundred thousand for retirement (way more than typical retirement savings).

So middle 60% must slave away their whole life and save for retirement while 10% live their life to the fullest? $1000 isn’t even a spec on billionaire’s radar while for someone it represents a whole year of work to spend a day of rest from this dystopia.

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