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[-] davel@hexbear.net 97 points 4 months ago

Yeah those savings will be wiped out by health problems from working two full-time jobs and only getting 3 hours of sleep.

[-] InevitableSwing@hexbear.net 55 points 4 months ago

Do to my efforts to put 100k in the bank as quickly as possible - I had a massive heart attack at 40. My health insurance refused to pay anything so I had to declare medical bankruptcy. Now I have a new plan...

[-] Dull_Juice@hexbear.net 24 points 4 months ago

Reads like one of those Japanese LN titles. Would just need the character to die and you've got an isekai right there.

[-] Wolfman86@hexbear.net 22 points 4 months ago

Why wouldn’t your insurance pay out? Just didn’t feel like it?

[-] ChairmanSpongebob@hexbear.net 27 points 4 months ago

often, yes.

maybe you went to a hospital or a doctor that "wasn't in the coverage network".

[-] InevitableSwing@hexbear.net 18 points 4 months ago

Vee-oh-pec (vibes of pre-existing conditions)

[-] ReadFanon@hexbear.net 34 points 4 months ago

They are one sleep deprivation-caused car accident/stroke/heart attack away from being six figures in debt and permanently incapable of working a full-time job in the future

[-] 7bicycles@hexbear.net 12 points 4 months ago

Operating on 24 hours of sleep deprivation, which feels applicable here, is equivalent to a 0,10% BAC. I feel like at that level if you get into a car accident it has like a 50:50 chance of being bad enough to just snuff you out entirely

[-] ReadFanon@hexbear.net 6 points 4 months ago

"Here lies Joseph. Died tragically young in a horrific and preventable car accident on the way to their third job with over $60,000 in their savings account. Rest in peace."

[-] DragonBallZinn@hexbear.net 31 points 4 months ago

porky-scared-flipped: "Whoa, why are you upset about the health problems? Think about how great health problems are FoR tHe EcOnOmy!1!1!"

[-] Wolfman86@hexbear.net 13 points 4 months ago

Hopefully she’s in a country that doesn’t have private health care. But yeah, either way, the health problems that will come later on won’t be worth the money saved.

[-] davel@hexbear.net 24 points 4 months ago

https://www.businessinsider.com/millennial-works-two-full-time-jobs-sacrifices-sleep-saving-thousands-2024-5

Lacerna, a 28-year-old part-time content creator near San Francisco, wants to save $100,000 to put toward a down payment to buy a house.

[-] Wolfman86@hexbear.net 25 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

She’s fucked then. Isn’t capitalism great? Isn’t America great?

[-] barrbaric@hexbear.net 18 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

LOL $100k as a down payment? Aren't houses in SF like $1.5M? Might as well just accept it's not happening tbh.

[-] Pentacat@hexbear.net 7 points 4 months ago

She could get some type of assistance as a first time homebuyer and start out with a crappy rate until she’s able to refinance. Better than paying a landlord. I imagine her rent is astronomical.

[-] DyingOfDeBordom@hexbear.net 8 points 4 months ago

Okay first I was gonna say "content creator" isn't a real job but then saw she's making $28 an hour as a fucking barista, that's wack

[-] Nakoichi@hexbear.net 15 points 4 months ago

It's san francisco though. The cost of living there is fucking insane.

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[-] TraschcanOfIdeology@hexbear.net 50 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

That sounds like a great way to get burnt out and physically ill for years, perhaps irreversibly so.

I know because I'm recovering from a similar situation.

[-] CyborgMarx@hexbear.net 45 points 4 months ago

That person is gonna end up hospitalized and then those "savings" ain't gonna mean shit

[-] GrouchyGrouse@hexbear.net 26 points 4 months ago

Yeah having a mental or physical breakdown because of stress isn't healthy at all what the fuck is wrong with this author. Make them endure this shit for at minimum 2 years then we can talk.

[-] davel@hexbear.net 15 points 4 months ago

https://www.businessinsider.com/author/maria-noyen

She’s a bot who only posts bourgeois talking points for her Biden Bux.

[-] Blep@hexbear.net 44 points 4 months ago

Halfway to halfway to a downpayment,

[-] PKMKII@hexbear.net 26 points 4 months ago

For context, inflation adjusted $100k would be equivalent to ~$11.1k in 1968, when average home prices were in the $25-26k range madeline-deadpan

[-] Blep@hexbear.net 15 points 4 months ago

Them shits an even million now

[-] TreadOnMe@hexbear.net 35 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

If they are a millennial, that means this person is easily into their late 20's and early 30's.

Also, no way that is sustainable long-term.

[-] Rom@hexbear.net 34 points 4 months ago

This is extremely unhealthy and should not be praised. Absolute ghoul shit.

[-] emizeko@hexbear.net 33 points 4 months ago

Political economy, this science of wealth, is therefore simultaneously the science of renunciation, of want, of saving and it actually reaches the point where it spares man the need of either fresh air or physical exercise. This science of marvellous industry is simultaneously the science of asceticism, and its true ideal is the ascetic but extortionate miser and the ascetic but productive slave. Its moral ideal is the worker who takes part of his wages to the savings-bank, and it has even found ready-made a servile art which embodies this pet idea: it has been presented, bathed in sentimentality, on the stage. Thus political economy – despite its worldly and voluptuous appearance – is a true moral science, the most moral of all the sciences. Self-renunciation, the renunciation of life and of all human needs, is its principal thesis. The less you eat, drink and buy books; the less you go to the theatre, the dance hall, the public house; the less you think, love, theorise, sing, paint, fence, etc., the more you save – the greater becomes your treasure which neither moths nor rust will devour – your capital. The less you are, the less you express your own life, the more you have, i.e., the greater is your alienated life, the greater is the store of your estranged being. Everything which the political economist takes from you in life and in humanity, he replaces for you in money and in wealth; and all the things which you cannot do, your money can do. It can eat and, drink, go to the dance hall and the theatre; it can travel, it can appropriate art, learning, the treasures of the past, political power – all this it can appropriate for you – it can buy all this: it is true endowment. Yet being all this, it wants to do nothing but create itself, buy itself; for everything else is after all its servant, and when I have the master I have the servant and do not need his servant. All passions and all activity must therefore be submerged in avarice.

from https://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1844/manuscripts/needs.htm

[-] fuckiforgotmypasswor@hexbear.net 6 points 4 months ago

absolute banger of a quote

political economy – despite its worldly and voluptuous appearance

volcel police get in here

[-] VOLCEL_POLICE@hexbear.net 4 points 4 months ago

The people's VOLCEL VANGUARD are on the scene! PLEASE RESERVE YOUR PRECIOUS BODILY FLUIDS FOR STRATEGIC ACTS OF MASS REVOLUTIONARY CUMMING!!!

volcel-vanguard

[-] Tunnelvision@hexbear.net 32 points 4 months ago

I love how the title is said as if you should be impressed at almost saving 50k with two full time jobs. That like getting paid $12 an hour at both jobs it’s basically not even worth it

[-] crispy_lol@hexbear.net 21 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

What can you buy with 50k? A tiny house if you build it yourself? A nice shed? A used rv?

[-] Tunnelvision@hexbear.net 20 points 4 months ago

Exactly and I was being generous with the calculation because it’s assuming you pay 0 taxes and are a robot that doesn’t need to eat or anything.

[-] Findom_DeLuise@hexbear.net 6 points 4 months ago

A 1996 Dodge Caravan with 330,000 miles on it, one-wheel drive, a mostly-working AM radio, seats that smell like cigarettes and piss, and about 6.5 months' worth of rent for a storage unit space juuuuust large enough to fit the van if you pull off the side mirrors

[-] rio@hexbear.net 15 points 4 months ago

Also they’re a millennial so like they would be 30-40 and they’ve accumulated less wealth than owning a house so they’re still way behind where the baby boomers were at when they were 27, even working 2 jobs and deciding to just not sleep.

Wholesome.

[-] henfredemars@infosec.pub 30 points 4 months ago

Local millennial excludes ultimate fiscal responsibility by planning to die for retirement decades in advance.

I realized the ultimate cost-cutting measure was to cut myself. Only with zero needs could I be truly independent.

[-] Bloobish@hexbear.net 25 points 4 months ago

Ah yes thank you soothsayers and priesthood of capital for telling us everything is okay and we are just slothful wretches for not working ourselves to an early brain aneurysm

[-] FuckyWucky@hexbear.net 22 points 4 months ago

that is so heckin poggers, 100k ez

[-] MusicOwl@hexbear.net 15 points 4 months ago

Fuck the ghouls who did this to people, who made this world possible.

[-] qaopjlll@hexbear.net 15 points 4 months ago

What a go-getter! If she keeps this up she might be able to afford the down payment on a studio apartment by the time she's 50.

[-] Red_Eclipse@hexbear.net 13 points 4 months ago

Nah I'm good, I think I'll sleep. zzz

[-] BigHaas@hexbear.net 12 points 4 months ago
[-] GalaxyBrain@hexbear.net 10 points 4 months ago

So they've done this and saved like 50k, over how long a period of time?

[-] Wolfman86@hexbear.net 13 points 4 months ago

Call it half way to 100k and that sounds so much better …might even encourage those lazy arse millenials who don’t want to work any more…

/s

[-] crazyminner@lemmy.ml 2 points 4 months ago

Yessss! Collect more of the money that keeps you in our system.. work for us and buy the house from us, all using good old money!

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