7d ago

Sure, WSJ. Next do an article on Selection Bias

See! You're not THAT poor. Just give it another few decades!

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Ok, lemmy crybabies. Me and my millennial friends all graduated from a university in Europe. None of us were born rich, but we're all well-off now. By now everyone lives in different country, works in a different field, but literally everyone can afford a mortgage, a car, a ski trip, and maybe for their partner not to work for a few years if kids would be born.
Yet, imagine that, nobody really planned for their career to be lucrative. People just did what they thought was interesting and did it well. Only one dude was after money. He went into banking and now probably makes close to a mil annually.
I reiterate. All that was necessary for a financial success was to find an interesting job and do it with passion. To me this sounds like a communist dream.
And yet lemmy keeps telling me every day that it could only be possible if all of us were born rich, or sucked to corpos or whatever. You're just a bunch of sore losers, lemmy.
Enjoy your holidays and think about your life choices.
- Wow, it's amazing g that you and your friends are a globally representative sample of millenials, despite all going to the same university. I wonder what would happen if different people have different life circumstances? Well, good thing we don't need to worry about that since you and your friends are doing okay.
  
  I choose to believe they are a troll, because I still at times need to convince myself someone isn't actually that maliciously ignorant.
- My life choices have been good. After all: I'm not a callous cunt like you.
- How much are you paid to troll? Just curious. Sounds like an interesting job I could do with passion.
  Or do you just say dumb shit for your own sexual gratification?
  
  Yeah where do we find these interesting jobs? Is there a guy handing them out somewhere?
  
  To be fair, there a lots of interesting jobs out there, you just don't know they are interesting because they sound boring, or because you only see them if you have experience in some boring job.
- Also European here. And just to bring some more up to date examples.
  My colleague bought a nice big flat some 5 odd years ago. If he wanted to buy the exact same thing today, he literally wouldn't be able to afford it, not even with much worse terms. For the same money he'd need to move to some small dinky house in the countryside.
  My aunt bought a flat 7 years ago for almost 1.5 million CZK, and then 2 years later one for 2 mil. Today, they're both worth at least 10 each.
  Income has not grown like that in the past decade. These are arguably successful people that literally wouldn't be able to recreate their success today, only a few years later. Shit's going down hill and it's going down hill fast.
  So for me and my GF, buying a house is a pipe dream. We just about manage renting our current flat, which is already cheap, we both earn comfortably above average and she even works overtime often enough. Buying a house or having a child are literally crippling decisions.
- don't feed the troll...
- Europe, lmao

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