For the literalists out there, the $600 amount is actually irrelevant. The joke is that there would be an amount of money that won't do anything truly life changing for you.

Life is like one of those free to play mobile games that’s fun at first, but then turns into a pay to progress or just endlessly grind once you get to the buy a house part of the game.

This strategy does work, but only if you've been spending $100,000 a year on lattes.

I'm 45 and I have ~$10k in savings.

I'm a driver, I'm a winner. Things are gonna change, I can feel it

I think you mean "less debt" not "$600"

I think you're forgetting about high yield savings accounts. You could easily have 603$ by the end of that time

Well I'm a loser

In the time of chimpanzees I was a monkey
Butane in my veins and I'm out to cut the junkie...

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Also know as the KKK. Wait...

This perfectly voices why I’ve been disenchanted with things recently. It feels exactly like that. Exponential progress at first to get you hooked on hard work, because you have the energy to find and do jobs and no perspective on how much things will eventually cost, but then the rewards for things you can do depreciate, and the cost to unlock the next balloons, and man you just can’t unlock that next tier because it’s so expensive and your jobs income could only be leveled up so far..

One thing you don't understand if we collectively stopped buying shit and participating in their crooked economy, the whole system would collapse.

I was going to flex on how I had more savings and youth than you but I blinked and it was gone.

honestly the last job I worked was 16.33 an hour and they gave me like 10-45 hours randomly every week. $600 would be a lot at that rate. quite literally.

Bro I'm going through the same thing. The value of money and the rewards from society have completely skewed off a cliff. What's the fucking point of working hard when it's clearly a carrot on a stick with a sadist at the reigns. You can do everything right and still just fall off the ladder and end with nothing. Now we get to pay taxes to a truly regressive system that takes money from the poorest and puts it in the hands of the richest. While the value of the dollar collapses into stagnant incomes.

For real. These days you need such a large amount to feel secure in case of emergencies, and even more to buy property or save for retirement. It’s never ending.

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If I didn't have Medicaid there would be no savings at all

You're not.

Exactly. There's a shit ton of materialistic impulse spending that didn't used to exist and doesn't need to exist. I'm guilty of it too.

People have literally been trained by the capitalist system to think they have to buy stuff to be happy. They got us hooked on short term dopamine rushes.

Now we're too poor to buy stuff so we just exchange dopamine for viewing advertisements. Back in my day you had to listen to rap music and seek bad influences, if you truly wanted to be a scumbag. now it's like the standard personality we crank out. They really closed the loop on young man becomes hedonistic capitalist worshipper. 6 years old, just touched an iPad, already doomed.

Cool, so give up everything so i could have a partial payment on something like changing brakes on my car. What a life.

Look at quality employees like any other product.

Saying that good people are hard to find and don't want to work anymore is like saying that since you can't buy a 200" 8K TV for 90 bucks it means TVs don't want to be bought anymore.