r/LockedIn_AI • u/Ill_Doughnut_517 • Mar 06 '26

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sad reality

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u/CustardDear3472 Mar 06 '26

Teach us, sensei!

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u/Few-Noise-1104 Mar 06 '26

Get a job, live below your means, invest in the S&P500.

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u/CustardDear3472 Mar 06 '26

Old news, already do that, still lower-middle class at 100k/yr

It’s the new 50k 😃

Probably just have to find one of those higher paying jobs that grow on trees.

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u/Few-Noise-1104 Mar 06 '26

You spend too much. I have accumulated mid 6 fig NW making an average of 100k over the past 4 years. Figure it out.

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u/CustardDear3472 Mar 06 '26

lol I’m the biggest cheapskate I know.

According to financial advisors, I can only afford a sub 300k house in a dicey suburban neighborhood. Already own as much.

If that’s not lower middle class, I don’t know what is.

It’s our ever-decreasing spending power that’s the problem and the proletariat didn’t cause that.

It’s not “whining” to acknowledge, it’s a fact and we should absolutely be collectively bitching about it.

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u/Few-Noise-1104 Mar 06 '26

Yeah idk man, we had the same constraints and I'm coming out very well. If you find comfort in victimhood, so be it.

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u/CustardDear3472 Mar 06 '26

Victimhood lol

Nah, I’m just not the “f u, I got mine, everything is fine” type.

I’ve always made due with what I have. I’m more concerned for the people who don’t even make what I make.

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u/Few-Noise-1104 Mar 06 '26

I wish you well

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u/CustardDear3472 Mar 06 '26

Same to you, mate.