ByteOnBikes@discuss.online to A Boring Dystopia@lemmy.world · 2 months agoAnother WSJ banger about why the poors aren't doing morediscuss.onlineexternal-linkmessage-square164fedilinkarrow-up11.64Karrow-down115
arrow-up11.62Karrow-down1external-linkAnother WSJ banger about why the poors aren't doing morediscuss.onlineByteOnBikes@discuss.online to A Boring Dystopia@lemmy.world · 2 months agomessage-square164fedilink
minus-squareThat Weird Vegan she/her@lemmy.blahaj.zonelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up36·1 month agolol. buying a house? having kids? I can barely afford to EAT, let alone bring another person into the world.
minus-square100_kg_90_de_belin@feddit.itlinkfedilinkarrow-up15·1 month agoAnd yet both legacy and new media unironically tells you to pull yourself up by your own bootstraps
minus-squareThat Weird Vegan she/her@lemmy.blahaj.zonelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up23·edit-21 month agolike the rich dude who said he could make $1M in one year, starting from homelessness. He cheated, and he still only made $60K
minus-squareBarneyPiccolo@lemmy.todaylinkfedilinkarrow-up6arrow-down1·1 month agoMany couples are putting off marriage because they both have student loans, and they don’t want to make their credit even worse. Worse, one might have loans, but not the other. Would you want to marry someone knowing you have to take on $100K in debt?
lol. buying a house? having kids? I can barely afford to EAT, let alone bring another person into the world.
And yet both legacy and new media unironically tells you to pull yourself up by your own bootstraps
like the rich dude who said he could make $1M in one year, starting from homelessness. He cheated, and he still only made $60K
Many couples are putting off marriage because they both have student loans, and they don’t want to make their credit even worse.
Worse, one might have loans, but not the other. Would you want to marry someone knowing you have to take on $100K in debt?