Every financial advice article: If you deprive yourself of all joys in life, then you can save up enough money to maintain your joyless lifestyle until you die.
@lowqualityfacts and if you don’t, there’s a lovely bridge downtown that you can crawl under and die.
@lowqualityfacts That's half of them. The other half have a headline like "This Gen Z-er saved $100k before they were 25" and the article is 5 paragraphs of fluff, and the final paragraph starts with "With a small gift of $99k from their parents..."

@dpnash @lowqualityfacts a variant of that one is: 20-something mined one bitcoin back when you could do it on a graphing calculator then sold it for $LARGE_NUMBER. Read to learn the secret to their success.

Young person: "Yeah, nobody knew that Bitcoin would be big back in the day, but I just had a feeling ya know?"

@lowqualityfacts counterpoint: you have been taught to find joy in consuming things that cost, and not in what is free and beautiful, like libraries and tea with friends and making art from trash.
@SomeVeganCheeseIsOk @lowqualityfacts Further argument behind counterpoint: if you save enough you might be able to be part of a collective to keep libraries free for others when your hideous government makes great efforts to defund them.
@cwicseolfor @lowqualityfacts eh. I've seen a library built by two dedicated women in a small town with nothing but private funds, but it is a massive labor of love and it requires support and a building. Using a library and building a library are two very different levels of effort.
@SomeVeganCheeseIsOk @lowqualityfacts While I agree I’m lucky enough to have seen & benefited from a library made of someone’s donated house - remarkable only that it was done - and unlucky enough that I worry reasonably if that might become a common way these things are done again. But meanwhile I was referring more to patching the funding necessary to keep extant libraries open across more days when cut funding is otherwise going to reduce open days, or keeping programs otherwise lost, etc.
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Just saying... Having time to go to a library, to make art, or to have tea with friends is a luxury most people in full time jobs and still struggling to cover their bills can only dream of.
@flamingored is that the same issue I was replying to? Or are they seperate issues, related by money?
@lowqualityfacts Life hack: If you just don't pay rent or buy groceries, clothes and petrol for 20 years, you can buy a house!
@lowqualityfacts This is so right. They always go after coffee for some reason.
@lowqualityfacts Disagree, some are "if you're born wealthy, here's how you can become more wealthy".
Not so fun fact, I'm already foregoing most joys in life and even then I barely break even. Hooray for medical debt!
@lowqualityfacts
It's not life without joy, just a miserable existence