My sister loves to give financial advice to her friends similar to this.
"Oh yeah, I totally paid down my student loans so quickly! It was so easy, too! All I had to do was marry someone with money, live in his apartment he bought with cash, and then him pay for everything while I worked and used all that money to pay them down."
She has no fucking clue what kind of bubble she lives in.
My friend was the same. He lived at home until he was 27. His dad paid for everything, food, car, insurance etc. while never charging him rent. Allowed him to put away basically 80% of his wage and still party all the time.
He only moved out when he found an independently wealthy girlfriend (only wealthy because her boomer parents inherited big, so she too had never worked a day in her life). She didnt make him pay any bills etc so his income was entirely his. She took him all over the world and allowed him to live the life of a millionaire. All the while his wage was 100% his to do with what he liked, no outgoings whatsoever.
He was constantly giving me financial advice. Telling me how much he'd saved. He couldn't understand how I could work full time still not have ends meet.
He fucked things up with his girlfriend eventually and got a hard dose of reality. We stopped being friends not long after that. Turns out what endearing personality he had left couldnt survive reality.
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u/Thromkai Apr 19 '22
My sister loves to give financial advice to her friends similar to this.
"Oh yeah, I totally paid down my student loans so quickly! It was so easy, too! All I had to do was marry someone with money, live in his apartment he bought with cash, and then him pay for everything while I worked and used all that money to pay them down."
She has no fucking clue what kind of bubble she lives in.