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[-] Rai@lemmy.dbzer0.com 120 points 1 year ago

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

The quality of the internet diminishes daily.

[-] can@sh.itjust.works 20 points 1 year ago

It's nothing new, even on reddit.

[-] Rai@lemmy.dbzer0.com 18 points 1 year ago

I hated it there, and I hate it here.

[-] affiliate@lemmy.world 7 points 1 year ago

there can be comfort in continuity

[-] Rai@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 1 year ago
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[-] stebo02@sopuli.xyz 10 points 1 year ago

!uselessredcircle

[-] Parent@hexbear.net 6 points 1 year ago

Hey, I laughed.

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[-] June@lemm.ee 79 points 1 year 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 1 year 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 1 year ago

I'm glad your doing well man

[-] rustydrd@sh.itjust.works 4 points 1 year ago

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

[-] Psaldorn@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year 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 57 points 1 year ago

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

It was their parents

[-] Trainguyrom@reddthat.com 10 points 1 year 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 1 year ago

All FOUR grandparents, right?

RIGHT?

[-] HawlSera@lemm.ee 3 points 1 year ago
[-] Skoobie@lemmy.film 56 points 1 year 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 1 year ago

GenX checking in to say: Same.

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[-] omgarm@feddit.nl 26 points 1 year ago

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

[-] Fiivemacs@lemmy.ca 30 points 1 year ago

Perhaps they had better grammar and spell check

[-] somePotato@sh.itjust.works 5 points 1 year ago

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

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[-] cabbagee@sopuli.xyz 11 points 1 year ago

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

[-] Nakoichi@hexbear.net 14 points 1 year ago

Multigenerational households are cool though

[-] Parent@hexbear.net 6 points 1 year 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 1 year ago

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

yea

[-] FoolishFool@hexbear.net 5 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year 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.

[-] LinkedinLenin@hexbear.net 2 points 1 year ago

polycule >>>>> multgenerational household

debatebro-l

[-] rockerface@lemm.ee 13 points 1 year 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 1 year ago
[-] captainlezbian@lemmy.world 12 points 1 year ago

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

I hope they're doing well now.

[-] CluelessLemmyng@lemmy.sdf.org 9 points 1 year 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 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year 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 1 year 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 1 year 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 1 year 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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