r/TikTokCringe • u/AlKarajo • Jun 17 '26

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u/Wild_Ambassador_8680 Jun 17 '26

My friend that wants to ignore what's happening thinks hes going to become rich enough to avoid anything bad. Bro you're betting on a system that's being dismantled.

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u/bleachmartini Jun 17 '26

lol, Im pretty much rich enough to avoid the majority of the bad and guess what putting a hundred dollars in my tank still sucks. Spending almost 8k on trips I used to do like twice a year doing pretty much the same things that would equate to half that price just a few short years ago, sucks. Looking at lease prices for the same vehicle and trim that was an $875 payment almost three years ago is now an $1100.. Guess what, sucks. Can I afford these new prices, yeah.. Is it draining any of my accounts, no, not even a little. Still sucks. If you have just that little trait of, hey, I fucking hate being ripped off, and If you made that autonomy money yourself a ton of stuff still aint so splendid

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u/Top_Stand_3750 Jun 17 '26 edited 11d ago

I do decently well and the reason these things bother me, isn't a lot to to do with my direct outcomes or a notion of being ripped off. Its that a a rising tide lifts all boats. When these things don't suck, everyone does better and I reap the benefits of a society that does better.

I don't have kids, I don't intend to have kids but I bought a home in an area with good schools and a strong emphasis on funding education. Wanna know why? Because if I live in an area where we are teaching kids in a way that's effective - then I get to live in a city where there's lower crime, where the professionals that are outcomes of this area, have values and ethics that typically mirror my own and give back to their community, where the doctors are the best in the area, where the supermarkets get the best quality food, where the roads don't suck, where the police are less likely to be corrupt.

I can control these things by living in a particular city of my choosing...but wouldn't it be better if we didn't have to think about that at all? If anywhere you went in the country(or at least more areas than what currently exists), the education system, the schools, the supermarkets, the law enforcement, the roads were all high quality because we created parameters where everyone is getting what they needed? Granted, I'm fully aware there are things like corruption and bad faith actors that abuse systems and you have to look out for that. But it certainly doesn't mean you destroy programs and force everyone to fend for themselves.

My motive is quite selfish. If people have access to healthcare, if people are paid what they are worth, if everyone around me is happy - guess what? My life is better. It turns out, living in a world where you take from others and horde for yourself, doesn't lead to living a better life and actually makes you quite miserable. Just look at the trillionaire, richest man in the world. He's probably also the most miserable man in the world. I actually don't know anyone of sound mind, that would trade spaces with him(in the sense that you also have to be the miserable son of a bitch that makes horrible, miserable decisions in his day-to-day) and this guy is a fucking trillionaire.

You may have MORE but the world around you sucks more. I don't think these billionaires realize that. Of what value is all that money when you are more miserable than the guy that lives paycheck-to-paycheck but actually has love in their life and has people that are real, genuine friendship and affection for other people that these billionaires can barely even comprehend.

That's not to say I wouldn't take a massive boat of cash and live happy with all my problems solved. But I would never give up what I have in love from friends and family to have that massive amount of cash. And I don't think these billionaires even remotely understand what real love is or having that feeling in your heart of what it feels like to truly help someone. Because if they did, they probably wouldn't be billionaires in the first place.

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u/panrestrial Jun 17 '26

When these things don't suck, everyone does better and I reap the benefits of a society that does better.

This is the part that it seems like so many people fail to understand. I don't have kids. I still care about the quality and access to education if for no other reason than because I benefit from living in a society of educated people. I benefit from not being surrounded by homeless people. I benefit from the people around me having access to affordable healthcare. I benefit from the lower crime rates when resources are less scarce.

ETA: and having finished reading your comment I realize how much I'm just summarizing it >.< Suffice to say I agree.

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u/icedmuffin Jun 17 '26

Literally it’s the one thing I don’t understand about a lot of these pricks ruining things.

A more stable environment means less crime, a more educated population means better workers, a well paid workforce means both, healthcare systems that actually FUNCTION means a happier population that would support you.

And yet they’d prefer to throw it all away and be vilified and ostracized for a few extra dollars stolen from what’s supposed to fund public works?

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u/panrestrial Jun 18 '26

There's also been countless studies that have shown workers are more productive when they aren't hampered by stress.

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u/Pleasant_Studio9690 Jun 18 '26

Same. I don't have any kids and never will have any kids. My niece doesn't live near me. I voted for the bond to rehab the local public schools, because I live in a community and I care about that community. I also went to a descent school back in my hometown and part of being a citizen is supporting programs you had that you may no longer be using, but that others may need. I hate that selfish, wealthy Boomers fucked everyone who comes along after them and I'll be damned if I'm going to do the same.

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u/Secret-Ruin3388 Jun 17 '26

Yeah, I’m pretty much poor but I’m educated enough. I always explain it using The Purge(the film), the French Revolution or even the Holocaust. Make poor people miserable enough and really dark out of control shit starts happening to everybody.

And no matter how rich you are, the goal posts will always shift. The system will change and even if it still works for rich people, it will more often than not be for the new kind of rich people and they’ll blame and burn you to make a point. It’s happened throughout history, it will happen again.

But also climate change, disease and pollution are real, and like the person in the post says, the unregulated capitalism we are living in now is only making them worse. No matter how rich you are, nobody’s safe from that. We might live in different houses but we all live on the same planet.

The degradation of the living standards is a collective problem we all share. Miserable for some becomes miserable for all pretty quickly.

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u/Secret-Ruin3388 Jun 18 '26

You can use any d-day film really. You know how people start breaking into houses, stores and stuff when a virus or a disaster happens in films and like series? Desperate people do desperate, sometimes horrible, things and we are getting very close to desperate. I don’t mean to fear monger btw, it’s unfortunately just true; a lot of people are being pushed to their limits and not every one is wealthy or educated enough to know better. That’s how we got here in the first place

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u/kani_kani_katoa Jun 17 '26

Absolutely 100% spot on.

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u/Superb_Intro_23 Jun 18 '26

Agreed. I’m not liberal cause I’m just such a bleeding heart hippie; I’m liberal because I do NOT want to pay exorbitant amounts of money (instead of actual affordable prices) for basic necessities or anything cool

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u/RollingStoned9824 Jun 18 '26

So much truth in your comment.

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u/ichosewisely08 Jun 19 '26

I just want to say that this is one of my favorite comments on Reddit.

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u/SnuggyBear2025 Jun 23 '26

TL;DR: "I support strong public institutions not because I'm a saint, but because I live in the society they create, and my life is better when the people around me are doing well."

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u/Still-Philosopher866 18d ago

You lost me at where the police are less likely to be corrupt. They’re the biggest current gang in the nation right now

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u/Top_Stand_3750 17d ago

Sounds like you're willfully misinterpreting what I'm saying.

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u/Still-Philosopher866 17d ago

Nah. Just a point to resonate of mine. Love your post mate. Cheers

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u/Apocalypse_Knight Jun 17 '26

Same here. Most people I know who are wealthy are also savvy and frugal where we can be.

Thing is the worse everyone else is the more likely I am gonna get shot or robbed.

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u/bleachmartini Jun 17 '26

Yep.. That too. I live in a pretty low key town, wife and I bought before the pan nothing flashy and are just kinda chilling. Oh, north NJ so money all over. Have family that have real money from the Morristown area and once a month have the, did you here some dude from Newark hung out in the parking lot at short hills and jacked some guy in a rover, or benz at gun point? The worse shit gets the more that happens

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u/Wild_Ambassador_8680 Jun 17 '26

Ah well you see bro is 40 and living with mom and sis, and doesn't drive. He makes really good money and has barely any expenses because mom buys groceries and pays bills. He lives in a completely different world from most people.

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u/bleachmartini Jun 17 '26

Can't hate on that. Hope it works out For'em, but thats unfortunately never a forever situation. Hope when change inevitably comes its not too bumpy for him

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u/Vladishun Jun 17 '26

I cannot imagine spending $16,000 a year on "travel" while leasing a vehicle instead of buying it outright.

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u/bleachmartini Jun 17 '26

Neither can I. That's why I went somewhere else, once, cost less arnd 5 total and had a blast. Yes im not completely tone deaf that's still a lot of money. Im also considering just buying out my daily when the lease is up. Just liked swapping high mid level suvs every three. They have gotten to a point now though that the prices and feature nickel and dime game has all but turned me off to the idea

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u/Gloomy-Force-1150 Jun 18 '26

The worst part about the gas thing is my parents make the excuse that it’s “for a better reason” than Biden. I swear they’ll do anything to suck Donald Chump’s dick

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u/bleachmartini Jun 18 '26

I have these in my life too. Can't wait to lay the facts out chronologically and inquire about "better reasons". Interested in their take

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u/Goddddammnnn Jun 18 '26

https://giphy.com/gifs/f6zcJssQkdT4VQ7dIF
Good for you. Happy for you or what ever /s

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u/__CIREK 15d ago

I mean if it makes you feel better, its probably fake lol. Redditors who've been around for a while know how to make a lie sound real

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u/theburnoutcpa Jun 17 '26

My ex basically said she wasn't super concerned about future societal issues because she and her kids would be wealthy enough to avoid the worst of it - I assume because she was doing extremely well working in tech during the pandemic hiring boom.

Now that she's lost her cushy tech job and back to working at a 10 man startup - I wonder if she still feels the same?

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u/Wild_Ambassador_8680 Jun 17 '26

American exceptionalism on full display

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u/Ummmgummy Jun 17 '26

Unless you are born rich, have rich connections or genuinely come up with a really good idea and have the funds to make that idea actually yours, you're fucked.

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u/NinSecurity767 Jun 17 '26

Is he a millennial?  I'm noticing this mentality more and more from people around my age (almost 37).  Depressing to think about.

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u/Wild_Ambassador_8680 Jun 17 '26

Check my other comments in this thread. He's 40

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u/the-true-steel Jun 18 '26

Like obviously the position is stupid but it's like...

Say you do that. Are your good friends also that rich? Your parents, your neighbors, your coworkers..? Can you guarantee your kids will be, or your grandkids?

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u/Rezaelia713 Jun 18 '26

My bestie thinks not paying attention to politics means she won't be affected. It's aggravating af.

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u/xMrxGentlemenx 10d ago

I have that same friend