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[-] Rai@lemmy.dbzer0.com 121 points 10 months ago

We’re red-circling posts from REDDIT now?!

The quality of the internet diminishes daily.

[-] can@sh.itjust.works 20 points 10 months ago

It's nothing new, even on reddit.

[-] Rai@lemmy.dbzer0.com 18 points 10 months ago

I hated it there, and I hate it here.

[-] affiliate@lemmy.world 7 points 10 months ago

there can be comfort in continuity

[-] Rai@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 10 months ago
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[-] stebo02@sopuli.xyz 10 points 10 months ago

!uselessredcircle

[-] Parent@hexbear.net 6 points 10 months ago

Hey, I laughed.

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[-] June@lemm.ee 79 points 10 months ago

I managed to break the curse and am far more successful than my parents. It happened through a lot of hard work, persistence, a lot of luck, a hefty gift from my ex’s rich aunt and uncle, and even more luck.

Anyone can do it.

[-] glassware@lemmy.world 18 points 10 months ago

Funny thing is, my career is more successful than my parents but their pensions are still more than I earn lmao

[-] Mcballs1234@lemmy.ml 7 points 10 months ago

I'm glad your doing well man

[-] rustydrd@sh.itjust.works 4 points 10 months ago

The American dream lives on. God bless you, sir.

[-] Psaldorn@lemmy.world 3 points 10 months ago

Best I can do is working day job, streaming at night and winning only the cost of a scratcher back everytime. 🍀💰

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[-] HawlSera@lemm.ee 58 points 10 months ago

Who do you think bought my car? My parents? Please.

It was their parents

[-] Trainguyrom@reddthat.com 10 points 10 months ago

My grandparents have been bailing my parents out of financial trouble their entire lives. Me? I got some cash for a down payment on a house, and I presently make more than ny parents do combined

[-] twotone@lemmy.world 4 points 10 months ago

All FOUR grandparents, right?

RIGHT?

[-] HawlSera@lemm.ee 3 points 10 months ago
[-] Skoobie@lemmy.film 56 points 10 months ago

Doing better than my boomer parents? Hahahahaha

I'll settle for just doing better than a majority of my millennial peers.

[-] MechanicalJester@lemm.ee 5 points 10 months ago

GenX checking in to say: Same.

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[-] omgarm@feddit.nl 26 points 10 months ago

My parents were bad with money. No terrible, just mad. So I am doing better!

[-] Fiivemacs@lemmy.ca 30 points 10 months ago

Perhaps they had better grammar and spell check

[-] omgarm@feddit.nl 18 points 10 months ago
[-] Fiivemacs@lemmy.ca 4 points 10 months ago
[-] somePotato@sh.itjust.works 5 points 10 months ago

Perhaps they had no money because they spended everything in fancy spell chack

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[-] cabbagee@sopuli.xyz 11 points 10 months ago

Same. I'm doing better, but man the bar was low.

[-] Nakoichi@hexbear.net 14 points 10 months ago

Multigenerational households are cool though

[-] Parent@hexbear.net 6 points 10 months ago

Yes and no. Less lonely than living by yourself and you can cook in bulk, but also you get sick of your family after living with them for a while. Also if you're cramming 3 generation into a 3 bedroom because of financial constraints that's pretty rough.

[-] NotErisma@hexbear.net 3 points 10 months ago

3 generation into a 3 bedroom because of financial constraints that's pretty rough.

yea

[-] FoolishFool@hexbear.net 5 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

Sure, but specifically in a culture where it's overall disadvantagious to still live at home as a young adult: Not really, ya know?

I love my parents, but I've been ready to live separately from them for a long time.

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[-] rockerface@lemm.ee 13 points 10 months ago

I'm doing better than my parents but only because in post Soviet times my family was even poorer, so it's sorta been gradually improving over the generations. I was able to get better education, better job than my parents ever had an actual opportunity to. But they did try very hard to set me and my sister up with that opportunity, so I'm grateful for that.

[-] aaaaaaadjsf@hexbear.net 13 points 10 months ago
[-] RadButNotAChad@lemmy.world 13 points 10 months ago

Im doing better for only two reasons. One, I found out I'm pretty damn good at sales and make a pretty good living doing it.

And two, I don't have and don't plan on having kids. Those things are expensive.

[-] captainlezbian@lemmy.world 12 points 10 months ago

Lol, I’m doing a bit better than my parents were while they were paying for chemo.

[-] The_Picard_Maneuver@startrek.website 10 points 10 months ago

I hope they're doing well now.

[-] CluelessLemmyng@lemmy.sdf.org 9 points 10 months ago

I'm definitely doing better than my parents. But they were horrible with money so it's not like it was a high bar.

[-] GaveUp@hexbear.net 7 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

A lot better but only because the communists took my mother's family's business and property mao-clap

[-] Cjwii@lemm.ee 6 points 10 months ago

My mother in law lives with us because of her crushing medical debt. I could go and ask her what she thinks but I think I know the answer.

[-] pachrist@lemmy.world 5 points 10 months ago

This thread is getting a little humble brag bootstrappish. It's probably better to ask this again in a month after the student loan payments really hit.

[-] Kecessa@sh.itjust.works 4 points 10 months ago

I'm doing better because they had kids, they didn't have a pension plan, they didn't have all the safety nets we've got now (no parental leave at all compared to a full year now), they got out of school right when interest rates were extremely high and unemployment too, the list goes on and on...

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