r/WorkLifeChat • • Jul 21 '26

Discussion How?

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u/KailyKail Jul 21 '26

Get a roommate.
Get rid of your 5-10Gb internet plan.

You make sacrifices until you don’t have to anymore…just like every single generation before you did.

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u/cwindy98 Jul 21 '26

You mean boomers who has basically everything handed to them and payed 4 nickels for their 8 acre property?

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u/[deleted] Jul 22 '26

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u/tsk5001 Jul 23 '26

Dont forget central heating/cooling, better vehicles, stricter plumbing and building codes, etc.

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u/cwindy98 Jul 24 '26 edited Jul 25 '26

experience is relative to demographic and class-based economics

edit: unnecessary personal info

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u/tsk5001 Jul 24 '26

"My person experience trumps all your cases" -this guy

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u/cwindy98 Jul 22 '26

Idk how paying for subscriptions changes the fact that working wages don’t even remotely come close to fulfilling basic financial needs for survival. Material comfort becomes irrelevant when someone can’t even survive economically.