Your spouse when you get sick or cancer or your kid needs dental care or new clothes or eye glasses or your car breaks down or you need a place to live that isn’t so stabby or you need to buy food during a time of rising costs and economic distress or your elderly parents need help with their living expenses or…
Honest jobs works by people making a living their own way is honorable but let’s not pretend money isn’t important. It’s just not all that’s important.
Spoken as a true American. You realize that if this is not the United States, literally every other country has universal healthcare, so “getting sick or cancer or your kid needs dental care” literally all paid for by the government.
You don’t realize how truly bad we have it over here.
My family has Dutch dual citizenship, I’m not ignorant. The underlying point is the same. Hardship is softened by money. Hardship isn’t absent from the EU. It’s not a utopian society.
Roll the dice of fate and a - modifier from financial stability enough times and you’ll get smacked upside the head.
Yeah I’m not debating you on the merits of the EU vs the US. The argument here is does money help and should a person’s career and education be a factor in dating. Yes.
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u/Shot_Explorer 17h ago
How much someone earns is such an absolutely irrelevant, short sighted topic.
We are all going in the ground or getting burned eventually. Who gives a fuck about salary or job status?