How do you escape the lower-middle class?
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How do you escape the lower-middle class?
the whole system is designed to keep you poor, either win the lottery or live like a jew until you have enough startup to become a landlord
>>25413609
You can't.
Then again, I'm from Putinstan, it's pretty hopeless here overall.
>>25413609
This is the most bullshit comic I ever read. Yeah right her parent worked 2 jobs each which is why they're so poor. Not to mention if you work hard you DO deserve it and fucking really? Her father is dying? Oh and they hire a tutor because of a b+ fucking sure.. also wtf? Not all middle class people have parents who fucking know a boss of a big company or is it about a realy really rich family? Thi comic is just bullshit who the fuck made it?
>>25413609
join Scandinavia in our pseudo communist utopia.
>government literally pays you to go to university
>government subsidizes food and water making sure it's high quality and cheap
>almost free healthcare (except teeth)
>government pays you child alimony
>even if you fail and go to prison, the prisons are luxurious and you can access libraries and play video games and whatnot
>>25413733
Richard is absolutely upper class but i'm not sure that the author knows that.
You don't. It will always benefit the elite and upper class to have a larger population of lower income cattle.
>>25413807
>but i'm not sure that the author knows that
where is it implied he's not?
>>25413609
This is why I feel no sympathy towards the rich or their problems. If your family is rich, you're literally fucking set. You pop out of the womb and you're already set.
People talk about all sorts of factors towards success: height, appearance, charisma, determination, all that.
Nope.
Money and nepotism. All you need to live a cushy easy life.
>>25413791
as a lower middle class in a 3rd world countrynot a niger tho, where do I sign?
> You
You don't do it yourself period
>work your ass off in middle school to get a scholarship to prestigious boarding high school
>work your ass off in high school to get a scholarship to prestigious university (outshine the kids who spent their summers traveling the world volunteering)
>work your ass off in university to get a job (outshine the kids who spent their summers getting unpaid internship experience)
>work your ass off at your job because your complete lack of connections means you're the first to go
that's how i got from hovering around the poverty line to six figures
but remember, all this time working is going to make it tough to develop relationships, so you'll still end up on /r9k/
also i have no idea how you'd do it if you didn't start working your ass off at 11
>>25413672
This is the truth. Just live frugally until you have amassed ownership of enough things/wealth to multiply it into more things. Thats it.
>>25413609
Luck.
Shut the fuck up robot.
>>25413609
Who cares if this is true?
Born in to money or have a good idea that normies will eat up. It's the only way in this era.
>>25413609
>pencil in the title
>elaborate logo instead of plain text (maybe some font, but not "le fancy text")
Instant red flag, not worth reading, strawmans and I AM SILLY, please acknowledge my existence
Go to a LOL thread once in a while
>>25413609
>this is what poor people actually believe
yep, those that are well off never had to work for anything they had, good goys you should all hate the wealthy
>tfw rich as fuck parents, I'll never have to worry about money
>People think this means your life is set and nothing bad can ever happen to you.
To be honest, I wish my parents were middle-class instead. My parents are rich as fuck, my dad inherited his dad's business and expanded it to a multi-million dollar company, my mom was a big-shot lawyer a huge firm and did consulting even after she left, charging people insane money by the hour, I mean she literally made more money in an hour than most people make in a week or a month.
And because of that, expectations were VERY high for everyone in my family. I have three siblings, an older sister, a younger brother and a little sister and trust me when I tell you that my family went to fucking shit from all of the pressure our parents were putting onto us. I mean there were points in our lives where we felt completely abandoned and had to look after each other, our parents didn't have much time and they always thought that since they came from harder backgrounds, that we had to work just as hard, if not harder to out-perform them.
They literally cut contact with me for 4 years because I didn't get accepted into Princeton and went to join the military instead. I don't regret it, I had a lot of fun and enjoyed my time there, but my siblings are nervous wrecks, my brother is in an ivy league studing to become a doctor and my parents are just being assholes to him. They refuse to give him money unless he has a steady job, they refuse to help him if he does something bad etc.
Same with my sisters - they're doing something my parents don't 100% approve of? Cut off. No support whatsoever, emotional or monetary. Now that my mom has passed away, my dad barely even stops working. We all spent the holidays by ourselves. I mean... fuck this tbq familia.
>>25414446
10/10 Best New Goy
>>25414462
Thanks for sharing the story friend
>>25414462
>I'll never have to worry about money
stopped reading there
i can't care, i'm sorry
>>25413609
>babies look like creepy old people
Why
>>25414496
I'm just drunk tbqh familia.
>>25413791
>join Scandinavia
Can't, they don't want me because I'm not a doctor or a lawyeror anything remotely useful
>>25414462
>be rich
>have problems
>solve them with money
???
>>25414510
That's what I'm talking about. People just think you're being a whiny bitch, but money doesn't change how happy you are. I was the happiest I ever was living in a small apartment with my bro when were stationed in Korea, laughing our asses off every single night, now I got some money money and I'm working as an administrative assistant, but it hasn't made me any happier than I was then.
>>25414462
poor him, he didnt have to get a job and sleep 4 hours a night in college :(((
>>25413609
Why do I get the impression this was written by someone studying a worthless field like women's studies?
>>25414550
>I was the happiest I ever was living in a small apartment with my bro when were stationed in Korea, laughing our asses off every single night
it must be hard to travel and have friends and money
no seriously
how do you manage
that sounds really hard
your life sounds really hard
>>25414550
>money doesn't change how happy you are
I'm gonna disagree with this statement if that's okay :)
The problem with people nowadays is that everyone thinks they're entitled to the well-paying, respectable "lead" jobs starting out but refuse to put any work in to get there.
And honestly, I have no sympathy for those who refuse to work.
It's hilarious that he used a man for the lazy rich guy, and the girl as a hardworking sensible person.
My father came from a military family where he had 5 siblings and my grandfather was just a high school science teacher after his service, his mother stayed at home and didn't work. They were dirt poor, and my father became an engineer making six figures. Explain this you lazy NEETs. If you put the work in you can escape poverty.
I hate it, work hard get good grades but I need a full
ride scholarship or I can't go anyway.
>can't get a loan because no collateral
>don't want to put any financial strain on my parents
I really want off this wild ride
>>25414630
how old is your father
approximately what year did he graduate from university
Hey Paula maybe your parents shouldn't have had a kid when they knew they were flat ass broke.
I can't believe normies think that having a children is a right, and not just a selfish luxury.
>>25414653
>maybe your parents shouldn't have had a kid when they knew they were flat ass broke
But how is this Paula's fault?
I would fucking retroactively abort myself if I could
>>25414644
He is 58. Don't know what year he got his degree though.
>>25414661
It isn't and she should work with what she has.
Equality doesn't exist as much as we want to pretend it does.
>>25414580
>it must be hard to travel and have friends and money
He was in the military, dumbass.
work hard and dont buy frivolous shit
>>25414661
Well, it's not her fault aside from choosing a shitty ass degree. Actually, why the fuck did she even go to college. She should have joined a trade or taught herself how to program. And why was that bitch watching TV while Richard was studying?
Anyways, Paula should be blaming her dumbass dindu nuffin parents. Instead of blaming Richard, who did everything right.
>>25413609
>lower-middle class
>implying that the middle class still exists.
>>25413733
The only bullshit part of the comic is how it implies that the woman actually has to study and work hard in order to have a decent life. She has the option of just golddigging her way into the life of someone like Richard, there's no shortage of men who would be willing to provide for a woman.
The only reason that she's a woman at all in this comic is because its easier for most readers to feel sympathy for a woman. If the poor person was a man then more readers would think he just didn't work hard enough and deserves to be poor.
>mfw girlfriend's dad came from large farm family in a small Canadian town
>studied hard and makes 350k/yr now
what a shitlord he must be
>>25414675
so he was out of school, in let's say 1980?
the job market and economy in 1980 compared to 2016 is literally night and day
the american dream is dead. tuition costs are inflated to shit. even if you bust your ass in a STEM major, without prior connections you aren't getting shit.
our generation is literally fucked. we're stuck. we're the only generation that is worse off than their parents and will be worse off than their kids
>>25414550
friend get a clue
this guy >>25414510
got it right.
>>25414766
duh, only poor people are allowed to have problems
it's 2016 guys get with the program
>>25414758
>>25414630
FUCKING LAZY KIDS
BABY BOOMERS = BEST GENERATION
IT WORKED FOR ME, IT'LL WORK FOR YOU
>>25414761
beta uprising when?
seriously this is all im looking forward to.
>>25414788
Essentially every problem I have would be gone if I never had to worry about money.
Your problems are negligible and amount to nothing more than "I get lonely sometimes". Please get over it and dry your tears with 100 dollar bills.
>>25414737
>And why was that bitch watching TV while Richard was studying?
Because she was a kid
No kid is gonna choose learning over tv/vidya/whatever
Parents should provide discipline not entertainment
>>25414805
doesnt it feel great just writing off the achievements of others because they came at a different time?
much easier than attempting to replicate them yourselves, eh?
>>25413609
You cheat your fucking ass off and shit on the guys who are even remotely better than you every chance you get. Everyone goes on about hard work and determination beating talent or whatever traits you were born with (like being fucking loaded), but there's not much a hardworking person can do against a good-looking, rich, charismatic, talented person who's also a hard worker.
Cheat. Fucking CHEAT. Lie, cheat, steal, and squeeze your way into getting a piece of those fat bastards' pie. Honest work will get you nowhere without a bit of dishonest work thrown into the mix.
Seriously, the game's rigged from the start. Those born into wealth have that much more to build upon. What's a million dollar loss to the scion of a business family? It's death to the business owner of a second-generation immigrant family.
>>25414550
It sounds to me like your parents are just terrible at parenting, the money itself isn't the problem.
Reminds me of me and my gf.
Few days ago she was complaining to me how her she'll "end up on some private university in england", while my parents can't even send me to study to another town.
Eh, I still love her.
>>25414844
right? fucking dumb kids.
now give me my social security check whippersnapper
>>25414788
BOO FUCKING HOO YOU HAVE TERRIBLE PARENTS
AND YOU HAVE MONEY
YOU HAVE MONEY
you shit eating scum shitlord ... understand... YOU HAVE MONEY.
Just throw money at your problems you douche.
>>25414915
b-but money can't fix muh broken heart
oh wait poor people can be lonely too? wut???
>>25414893
muh boy
you are gunna get dumped..
>>25414744
>She has the option of just golddigging her way into the life of someone like Richard
Richard is banging hot supermodels not some average roastie, he'll marry 20 - something chick in his 50's
>>25414462
>implying that poor or middle class people never have shitty or abusive parents.
>>25414942
I know... She's two years younger, she'll be leaving town/country to study in 2 years, I hope she atleast stays with me for those 2 years since my friends left town as well and I'm all alone.
>>25414462
If anything, your post only proves what was said before. You people live out of goddamn reality. What the fuck are you whining about again?
>>25414844
That image macro raises a valid point.
I'm hopefully on my way. I grew up in a trailer with an unemployed drunk father and a cancer ridden mom. But now I'm at college getting straight As in my engineering program
>>25415001
IT WORKED
FOR ME
IT WILL WORK
FOR YOU
PLEASE DON'T BRING UP THE FACT THAT THE COLLEGE SYSTEM IS IN SHAMBLES
L A Z Y K I D S
>>25414849
So, do illegal things for money? Sell drugs?
>>25414462
This has to be bait. I don't know how one post can be so oblivious unless it's intentionally so.
>>25414837
gone and replaced with other problems
or you're just too shortsighted enough to realize what would actually happen should your situation change and instead are taking an idealistic view that obviously money would solve all your problems
sounds like something a poor person would do, so I can't really blame you familia
>>25414915
>>/tumblr/
>>25415049
>replaced with other problems
Name some and I'll tell you why they aren't real.
>>25413791
>tfw want to move to Scandanavia
>I'm studying to be an American History teacher
Who would want to learn about American History outside of America?
>>25415024
maybe taking a loan to attend a university and study a major that isn't complete dogshit will help to focus your mind on your studies and not being a degenerate in school
and if you study a field worth getting into you can easily repay the loan over time. You think every "boomer" didn't need a student loan? Suck it up, you whiny baby
>HAND THINGS TO ME! I DESERVE THEM BY BIRTHRIGHT!
i'm legitimately ashamed to be a part of such a meme generation
Buying gf pls respond
>>25415079
>You think every "boomer" didn't need a student loan? Suck it up, you whiny baby
>Getting B's in some shitty ghetto school
How is that even possible? You're basically guaranteed an A just by doing the bare minimum and not giving the teacher a hard time.
She deserved it.
>>25415109
Does this take into account inflation?
>>25415140
Yes, every value is in 2015 dollars like it says in the title
>>25413609
Why the fuck is Richards hair grey?
>>25413733
Lots of parents are willing to send their kids to tutors cuz B+
multiple often simultaneous paths
you be sociable enough to get in with the chads and have a well paying job
you work a mid tier job for ~10 years and buy fixed assets that make you money
you go into debt and get a degree that gives you bux
you get lucky
>>25415109
so basically they've increased by $30,000 in 2015 dollars
not really that much of an increase senpai, a 30,000 loan can be repaid in 10 years AT MOST. Not a very compelling argument
>all these mad poorfags
You guys are really just a bunch of whiney bitches. Poor people are poor because they can't handle money. I know a guy who complains about the 1% all the time but he spends his money on weed and video games.
>from a rich family
>dad is frugal so we end up living in a poor part of town because he didn't want to pay a lot for living
>literally the only rich kid around
>spent a lot of my time with mom and she had the mentality that we were better than everyone else
>I ended up thinking of everyone else as peasants and looked down on them
>get bullied a lot because of this, never learned how to make friends
>parents were proud of me because I acted kinda like them and not like others
>this eventually turns into a lot of guilt and shame over what I had done
>quit my studies and start isolating myself more and more
>eventually gets to the point that I demand my father to write me off his will
>now 28, on welfare, no diploma after high school, live on ramen and eggs
wew lads, being rich is swell, right?
>>25415221
NO! LIFE NEEDS TO BE 100% FAIR AND IF I HAVE TO WORK HARDER THAN SOMEONE ELSE DUE TO CIRCUMSTANCES BEYOND OUR CONTROL I WOULD RATHER SIT ON THE INTERNET AND BITCH ABOUT IT
literal meme generation
>>25415210
>a 30,000 loan can be repaid in 10 years
Motherfucker, people were buying homes at 25 in the 1980s.
>>25414462
>abloobloobloo we blue bloods have problems too
There are kids in the US who are beaten daily and don't get enough food to eat.
>>25415210
10 years isn't a long time?
>Oh yeah, no big deal, I'm going to spend at least 1/8th of my life in debt!
You could pay off college tuition by getting a summer job in high school back then.
>>25415221
>>25415253
I know, poor people are so dumb and lazy. They should have put in effort like I did, when I came out of a rich woman's vagina. I've never had to work for my money but I assume it's very easy so why don't they just do it?
>>25415253
>generation
people always been like that you idiot
>>25413609
If you want to escape the class you're in, you have to live like the class below it. Most people live like the class above it on credit. You can see how well that works out.
>>25413877
I agree.
If your father is rich and powerful, you will live on easy mode.
I can clearly see it in education. People without talent but with money usually go on to have good jobs. People with talent, curiosity but no money usually struggle and end up doing a slave job
Here's this one, more to come
>>25415079
The current generation has no idea what it means to take the initiative to do something for themselves and just want everything handed to them.
I run my own business on top of working and attending college. The shitheads I attend school with are unemployed or are in menial retail jobs. They think I'm some sort of drug dealer since I'm (to them) rolling in money.
>>25415260
>>25415282
So what is the alternative? bitch and whine on the internet and hope that Jesus comes down and reverts current society to the way it was in the mid 70s?
This is the way it is now, there's no way to change how things are, so fucking deal with it. It's not like you're emigrating from a war-torn country with nothing, you just need to pay more for an education that will still give you a significant ROI over your lifetime so long as you're not retarded
it's the whole "not being retarded" prerequisite that seems to be the downfall of many youth today
>>25415079
A ton of people do sleepwalk into college simply because they think that's what they're supposed to do.
They were told all their lives that they'd better go to college if they don't want to be flipping burgers
Then they get out of college, can't get a job in their field, and are told that they're entitled brats, and to go flip burgers, while being $70,000 in debt and having no work experience despite being in their mid 20s.
Not to mention colleges are cesspits of liberal degeneracy that indoctrinate young people with destructive anti-social ideas.
>>25415244
Again, it's shitty parenting, not riches. In fact, your life is extra shitty now because you have a lot less money.
>>25415340
>Paula did not wish to be brought into this world and wants to die everyday but society has told Paula that suicide is a selfish act
>>25414462
You're useless.
>>25414129
Meanwhile, there are thousands like you competing for the same scholarships, placements, jobs, promotions, no matter how hard you work, there's a good chance you will not end up successful.
>>25415340
part number 2 out of 4
>>25415244
>eventually gets to the point that I demand my father to write me off his will
you are a fucking retard
Poor kids have broken homes and no money. You are now living their life, but it's entirely your fault.
>>25415283
>implying i was any of those
I save every cent I make. I don't waste it on video games and partying every weekend. I didn't major in something stupid.
Fact: Poor people are just plain bad with money. They have no concept of saving for the future.
>>25415371
number 3 out of 4
>>25415306
good advice, but it's not all about the money
it takes iron will and a lot of luck to pull yourself from this shit, when other people got so much more experience than you in everything
>>25415379
>MY FATHER GAVE ME A SMALL LOAN OF ONE MILLION DOLLARS
>>25415394
and the end, part 4 of 4
>>25415361
so basically the people making the decision to attend college or university with no clear plan are absolved of the consequences of their own shitty decisions because they didn't know better? And didn't care to do a modicum of research in an age where we have literally all of the information you could ever possibly fathom at our fingertips?
Sounds like female mentality to me, fampai. Thinking your actions have no consequence because you didn't know better is a meme-tier argument and gets no sympathy from me
>>25415373
Yeah, and I'm not complaining about it. I prefer this life to the one I had but I still have to deal with the guild of what I was in the past.
>>25415340
>>25415371
>>25415394
>>25415408
i don't know if anyone else will reply but i just wanted to let you know that this didn't come out as funny as you hoped
>>25415344
>I run my own business
where did you get money for it?
>implying Paula wouldn't just whore herself up to upper class
this thread is bait
>>25415445
From my job.
I invest my paychecks in my business.
>>25415436
>wew lads, being rich is swell, right?
>I'm not complaining about it
kys
>>25415436
>guild
Sorry, guilt.
>>25415436
>and I'm not complaining about it
it seems like you are though
>>25415344
What kind of business do you run?
How did you get the money to start the business? How much did starting the business cost?
What are your profits like?
>>25413609
>has a degree
>still has a shitty job
Looks like someone majored in women's studies.
>>25415360
No it's not the way it should be, you brainwashed kid. Raise taxes on wealthy cucks.
>>25413609
>tfw my name is richard
>feelsgoodman.png
>>25415499
I import things from overseas and sell them in the US. Literally a one man operation.
Profits are around thousand or 2/month. It's not "a lot" but profit is profit.
>>25415283
so when faced with the prospect of having to work harder than someone else because the situation you were born into is not as advantageous as theirs, you simply instead choose to whine and bitch and hope that your situation magically fixes itself?
yeah, life is unfair and it sucks that there are people born into better situations, but you can't fucking change that, so get to work and make the most of the hand you've been dealt. We live in a first world society that many people around the globe would kill for and you're fucking complaining that you're only part of the global top 5% and not the 1%
literally kill yourself
>>25415558
I don't know why you have this assumption that I'm not working hard.
>>25415244
>being rich is swell, right?
Being rich is swell, but being mentally retarded is an illness.
>>25414675
>yeah dude! my baby boomer dad did this and you can do it too!
You're fucking retarded. The world is a completely different place than what your dad grew up in.
>>25415509
Why? Because you're asshurt they have more money than you? Give me a legitimate reason for raising taxes on the upper class that doesn't stem from insecurity or asshurt
They likely pay more in absolute dollars than you as it is, and the higher you raise taxes, the less incentive people have to work hard and strive for more since they will not be rewarded for the risks they take
You just want everyone to fall back down to your level because you're an insecure little poorfag with a serious case of fox and grapes syndrome
>>25414462
>went to join the military instead
>becoming a militarycuck
I'd have cut contact too if my son was this much of a retard. Your parents were right.
>>25415244
You fucked it all up. Being a retard is swell as fuck
>>25415369
It's not about probability, work harder and better than those people.
>>25415049
>>25415059
This guy still hasn't replied. There are no rich people problems that "replace" poor problems. Life is objectively better and easier with money. Your problems are made up.
>>25415573
in his mind you can't not succeed if you're working hard
>>25414616
>people work their ass off for 4+ years
>go into debt just to get a piece of paper saying okay you can now get this job
>Jews want to put these people into 25K - 30k per year jobs
>Y-YOU PEOPLE ARE JUST GREEDY AND DON'T KNOW WHAT HARD WORK IS. YOU HAVE TO WORK FOR YOUR JEW BOSS FOR 15 YEARS BEFORE YOU CAN GET PAID DECENTLY
Honestly why do you defend these rich people bootlicker?
Can you get welfare If you have zero parental income (step dad takes care of my mom they aren't married) as a dependent? She doesn't even file taxes, AS a student?
I have no one to help me so I'm looking into section 8 housing (found this shit but I'm afraid it's too good to be true, might get shot in my sleep)
If I can collect welfare while I study and have pell and state grants pay my education, can't I make it to middle class with a comp sci degree?
P.s. I've been working for the past 4 years don't tell me I'm a leech when I've been paying taxes.
I want to make more than 40k and not manual labor anymore. (In the U.S. You are dependent until 24 I'm 22, so it goes off my parents income not mine)
>>25415701
Because it's how I got to where I am now and how my parents and their parents did it.
I can see the entitlement dripping out of your shitpost.
>>25414849
yes and
>>25415040
yes
positive i'm on a shopping list for this
>>25415737
>it's how I got to where I am now
No, your parents' money is how you got here. You were born with a silver spoon in your mouth, stop taking credit for other people's accomplishments. You have not earned anything.
>>25414550
>but money doesn't change how happy you are
Fuck you. Just fuck you man.
Every time I hear this bullshit ass lie I'm surprised how people can actually believe it. Imagine all your retarded problems but this time imagine having to work retail like a dog to survive.
Rich people are dumb cunts. I'll gladly take all the money that never seems to help or satisfy you. Ungrateful fucks.
>>25415360
I like how you realized your previous argument was retarded so you went on to just insulting people.
Not them btw
>>25415701
>tfw it's the fate of most American men
I want off
>>25415701
>majoring in a field that starts you at 30k/yr
there's your first mistake, retard
>UK mechanical engineering student
>Have to spend one year in industry to get the degree
>Minimum wage, treated like shit, constantly ragged on, expected to do the same job as full time boomer engineers with no guidance, absolutely no investment in teaching me skills which is the whole.
>"Gotta start from the bottom kid"
Desperately trying to find a way to transfer to another company.
>>25415773
You deal with the circumstances you are given not the ones you wish you had.
It is not my fault your parents did not care enough to invest in you, but you can care enough to invest in yourself and in your future kids.
>>25415808
>everyone hears "the money is in STEM!"
>everyone majors in STEM
>suddenly jobs are pretty fucking hard to come by
>>25415780
>previous argument was retarded
but it wasnt, family
>>25413609
You work your ass off and then some. You might also have to forget all social life because people around you are lower-middle class failures and might have bad influence on you and some might even attempt to hinder your progress. Then some day you die on stress most likely and you are finally free.
>>25415840
>making major life choices based on herd mentality and heresay
second mistake, retard
>>25415842
Why did you discard it in favor of angry ranting then?
>>25415428
No. The point is that there's a bigger problem.
Education for children is compulsory, we raise kids to be spoon-fed information by a teacher, and to condition them to expect to automatically graduate into the next phase of life. They do everything that the system tells them to do, and then the system fails to produce functioning members of society who can get jobs, because that system is broken.
Imagine everyone throughout your entire life has told you that this is what you're supposed to do, and then you do it and it doesn't work, then people like you turn around and say "lol why did you do that? You're an idiot"
Personally I never went to college, but that was purely out of what I now see as luck. At the time I only wanted to go to college because I hoped that I'd get to have sex. The amount of fucking lies that we get told is incredible, and I believed them, its only through luck that I didn't get sucked into the trap.
>>25415884
>go STEM if you want money
>but if everyone goes STEM there's no jobs
>then don't go STEM you moron
>but no money
>then go STEM!
Good reasoning 10/10
I agree with the comic, but not in the way SJWs see it.
SJWs want everybody to finish equally, I want everybody to start equal.
This is why it's pointless to talk about privilege, you can never achieve either of these goals.
>>25415736
>>25415736
>>25415736
>that feel when no one will reply and my post will be buried by shitposting
T-thanks guys
>be the most academically qualified in the entire family with a bachelor's degree
>start a master's degree in physics
>everyone else has at least one parent with a doctorate or an engineering background
I feel like an outlier
>>25415904
It wasn't angry ranting and nothing was discarded. I never said things were 100% the same in cost terms as they were 30 years ago, but what can be done about it? Whining about it on the internet and being an ass does nothing to benefit anyone, so you just need to suck it up and deal with it
Frankly, a 30,000 increase in 30 years is relatively light even in constant currency and if you can't stomach a 30,000 loan to invest in your future then that's your problem.
>>25415934
>falling for the "only STEM fields are worthwhile" meme
>>25415840
So you work to stand out. Everyone can get a degree, but I guarantee Pajeet wont have the foresight to get some contacts and make some friends in the industry, nor will he care to do any projects for his portfolio, so he and everyone who majors in liberal arts ends up a statistic for college debt and underemployment. It's always about standing out, going the extra mile to develop some marketable skills that this job market is severely lacking.
Students are raised thinking a degree is going to magically grant them a 100k/year starting salary, nobody tells them they have to work for it. Then we have a bunch of shit-tier majors whining about "le so much work" in piss-easy courses because they think they're already doing enough and have earned the right to complain.
>>25415982
>Whining about it on the internet and being an ass does nothing to benefit anyone, so you just need to suck it up and deal with it
Whining about people whining on the internet doesn't do much either.
I went into nursing because the fact is if you do work hard, do the right courses and have the right skills you can make an incredible amoint of money
>>25416016
>Whining about people whining on the internet doesn't do much either.
I get off on shitting on those below me who are there due to their own lack of initiative and entitlement.
>>25416016
I'm not whining I'm attempting to educate and enlighten angry poorfags :^)
>>25415960
I have no respect for people who actually come to r9k to ask questions when they have the whole rest of the internet to find answers. Even yahoo answers would be better than coming here.
>>25416061
That's a funny way to say whining.
>>25416049
Ebin
This is retarded. Sure there are people who have everything given to the and that sucks for everyone else but then this comic tries to paint the picture that everyone who does better in life was born with the mechanisms in place to affirm that.
Still though, for all the talk SJWs give about privilege the only one I acknowledge is money.
>>25413609
Middleclass is as much a mindset as it is an income bracket. That's what these sjw gib me dats don't understand. Richards parents valued education, hard work, and held him to a higher standard than Paula's parents did. Hence why he was sent to tutoring for a B+ while Paula was congratulated. By time Paula's parents do see the value of her education it's too late. She's looking for an excuse to drop out (there are plenty of Asian parents who would order their kids to keep studying on their death beds) And for all the issues in the US education system, I can tell you from personal experience that the government will throw money at you to go to college if you are one of the following
>female
>non white
>under the poverty level
>military veteran
>over the age of 24
Paula is 3 of those 5 things. Four by the last panel. And she presumably has no kids to take care of, which is a huge bonus for her. So why the fuck is she not taking advantage of that and finishing her degree?
>>25416072
does it frustrate you, buddy? It's not whining because I frankly don't care, I understand how the world works perfectly and don't complain that I might have to work harder than some silver spoon faggot because they likely take things for granted and don't put as much effort into school or their internships, while kids like me come in and work twice as hard and end up getting the jobs instead
whining about how things are harder now than they were 30 years ago is pointless and deserves nothing more than "whining" back
>>25416130
Keep whining little babby.
>>25416130
You're whining pretty fucking hard right now amigo
>>25416145
I'm not the one mad at evil rich people, pal. Tell that to the guys in the thread whining that life isn't fair, like some kind of bizarro-SJWs
>>25416174
>These poor people are hurting my feelwings ;_____;
>>25416186
See >>25416049
Work harder and join us. It's so much fun.
>>25416082
>for all the talk SJWs give about privilege the only one I acknowledge is money.
This.
I find it really peculiar how financial privilege is almost never brought up by SJWs, despite it obviously being the most influential factor on the difficulty of a person's life.
>>25413609
>female
>poor
>disenfranchised
>apparently hardworking
Bullshit that she's working in college. I know people that are only one of those 4 things and they're going to college for free. Reeeeee
>>25416067
>>25416067
Good thing I'm not here for your respect, why reply if you're just going to shitpost.
Obviously you're not intelligent to see why I posted it. Perhaps it could've been one of the many solutions to OP's question.
Some of us like to be subtle.
>>25416215
That's because it's the only privilege they have and they need to win the oppression olympics.
>>25416211
You're going to need some cheese for all that whine.
>>25415369
meh my high school and college both had 10-15% acceptance rates and my grades and test scores placed me in the top 5% of applicants so i like to think it was hard work
but yeah it was probably genetic luck like everything else
>mfw girlfriend's family has 2.5 million in the bank and pull in a combined ~400k per annum
>mfw shes an only child and their house will sell for over 1 million and the entire proceeds will be hers
set for fucking life
>>25416282
What makes you think you're going to be the one that sees any of it?
She's probably sucking Chad's dick right now.
>>25415158
I guess to kind of show he's an old fat cat even when he was a baby but it's really distracting.
>>25416282
Sorry bud, but you're just a fling
Don't worry, just work hard and you can do the same!
I'm sure she has her own problems and difficulties :^)
>>25416234
That actually makes a lot of sense.
>>25416215
Because most SJWs you'll come across are upper-middle class, white, parents-paid-for-everything liberal arts majors who know they can't bring up financial privilege unless they want it to backfire horribly on them.
>>25416301
because we've been together 6 years
she was a virgin when we met at 17 and i took her virginity
she's not attractive and is slightly overweight and objectively a 6/10 but she's a great cook and a loving traditional female since her parents instilled good values in her
the weight can be lost over time and frankly I like having a belly gf
but 6 years of me being the guy who loved her for her before i knew of her financial situation puts me in the good books for life
>>25415063
Are you kidding? There can be no such thing as American history teacher. Here in Europe we have one subject, history.
>>25416348
>puts me in the good books for life
I'm lmaoing at your lyfe
>>25416371
2.5 million invested at 5% interest per year nets 125,000 in annual interest without ever eating into the principal amount.
this is easily a livable amount and the income from both of our jobs will just serve to contribute further to the principal
lmaoing at your life tbqh family, i've already won
>>25415969
Yeah, pretty much the same thing here. People generally assume you come from a stable household with educated parents. I found that it's best not to burst that bubble most of the time. That said, they can usually tell that something is off.
>>25416410
I wasn't talking about the money retard, I was talking about how you think she won't trade you in at any chance.
>>25416410
until she trades up for a newer model
>>25416367
Can someone fill me in on this?
Do you not study to become history teachers? Are your subjects that specified?
>>25415612
Lol, what are you talking about? It's not like raising taxes will make the highest paying jobs not highest paying anymore.
>>25416432
in that case i'm lmaoing at your life because your mind is literally memes and corrupted from being on 4chan for too long
unfortunately as this is an anonymous imageboard i have no way of conveying the absolute certainty of this never happening to me, so we'll just have to agree to disagree
but i would bet the entire inheritance on the fact that i'm not gonna get "traded in"
sorry familia, that money is mine
>>25416484
>but i would bet the entire inheritance
It's not yours to bet, it's Chad's :^)
>>25416472
why would i put in the time and effort required to achieve true wealth if my payoff profile is diminished?
>>25416463
in my high school, this is how it worked
freshman: ancient history
sophomore: european history
junior: american history
senior: civics/government
>What's the answer to being born poor?
>Rich anons:
SHUT THE FUCK UP AND DEAL WITH IT!!!!!! REEEEEE POOR PEOPLE
>>25413877
b-but my affluenza!
>>25416523
>SHUT THE FUCK UP AND DEAL WITH IT
So what else are you supposed to do? Working your way out of it is a way of dealing with it.
>>25416523
rich people have fucked up perspectives on life from having everything handed to them at all times
they tend to inflate minor problems and think the poor are somehow worse/lazy because they don't have what they have
socialism will do this country some good
>>25416510
Uhhhh because you will still have true wealth? Even with diminished returns.
>American Lower Middle Class
They are the fucking working class fam8, they just called them that because the establishment feared them getting organised back when Communism was a thing, divide and conquer.
Also you know the American Dream is fucked when a country like England with its horrible history of class division is now more socially mobile than the USA.
>>25416510
>>25416577
What was the incentive for getting rich when the taxes were higher for them proportionally?
>>25416597
Because you still have a shitton more money overall?
>>25413672
I wouldn't say to keep you poor, but there's so much pressure to consume, that's the real issue. Bigger home, bigger car, bigger tv.
Save your money instead. If you can save 50% of your take-home, you'll be retired in 7 years.
FIRE or bust!!!
>>25416510
because your $200000 (from $300000 wage) is still more than 4x my $40000
desu you can live really well with a normal job as long as you don't waste your money on shit like a car or drugs
lean to manage money and put a few k to the side
>>25416515
Huh, wierd. We are not able to study to become a teacher in a specified field unless we aim to be in the academia.
t. almost finished my teachers education in history and religion
>>25416523
Actually im pretty sure plenty of people in this thread have given non-meme answers
poorfags just want the answers to not involve work, which unfortunately they do, so they choose to ignore the advice
>>25413609
invest in stable companies
it'll take twenty years or so, but if you invest in shit like Walmart and Tobacco and use the dividends to invest further you can turn $20k into $200k easily.
>>25415340
>>25415371
>>25415394
>>25415408
This is sort of on the level of /r/atheism, to be quite honest, family.
>>25413609
What this picture doesn't show is that half of kids raised in a nice environment end up being worthless pieces of shit.
Being poor gives you some drive that the rich kids just don't have.
>>25416656
Yeah and I work 4x harder than you to achieve that, so I fail to see your point.
If the marginal effort i need to employ outweighs the marginal benefits of the effort, it's not worth doing
>>25416558
>Work
>>25416676
>work
There's that word again. Tell me, where can I find this "work"? If you mean going to university, how am I supposed to ever make enough to afford to go there?
>>25415673
I give scholarships for a living. How hard you work has very little to do with it. Everyone in the top tier works as hard as everyone else in the top tier. We only have ten vacancies for the academic year.
>>25416723
You get off your ass and learn some skills that sets you apart from everyone else in your major then you apply for a low level job and work your way up.
But no, you want the 100k/year starting with benefits right off the bat for a 2.5 GPA like every other entitled cunt clogging up the university system nowadays.
Dance for me wagekucks, dance.
I have literally written guides on doing this.
>>25416768
>everyone else in your major
What major? I can't afford to go to university, and the major I want, Computer Science, is filled almost entirely by nepotism, starting in, you guessed it, the university.
>>25415379
>I gain no pleasure whatsoever from life. I work like a dog for a boss who hates me so I can make the shareholders rich, and give every table scrap they throw at me to the banks.
Good goy.
great times are ahead of us
>>25416723
>what are student loans
bunch of posts above, someone posted an image showing average 4-year costs to be around 35,000 not including room and board, and around 45,000 including room and board
while this may be a significant sum of money, when looked at as an investment in your future it is an investment that will likely pay a higher ROI than any other you could possibly make
so take a loan, study a field that isn't a complete meme, and make the most of your time in uni. The fact that you are studying on borrowed money should do a lot to focus you from being a complete degenerate and partying all day and instead get the best grades you can and seek internships to maximize your employment potential upon graduation
but again, this is a lot of work and it's much easier for people to just whine on the internet about how unfair things are, so im sure you'll find ways to nitpick my post here
>>25416721
You have no way of knowing that. You don't know what his job is and you have not shared yours.
Football coaches who get fired from their contract and still earn their settlement often in the millions are not "working hard" as they rake in the cash. In fact, they are not even working at all.
>>25416793
Community college then transfer.
Take advantage of the gibes me dat programs your government offers. Take some initiative for once in your life you worthless neet.
I bet you want to go to comp sci to make useless video games like every other mouthbreathing tard shitting up the major worldwide.
>>25416510
>true wealth
>through wage slavery
>>25416723
>>25416768
I think another problem is that it's far too easy to get into a uni program. They've lowered the standards so that they can make more money. And made loans easier to get, which further amplifies the issue. Additionally, a lower-performing student will have to go for more than 4 years to get their degree, so this will increase their profits and FURTHER incentivizes colleges to let in the lowest-scoring students.
Maybe we need to go back to when we only had about 10% of the population with uni degrees?
>>25416656
Why should I take a 100k hit while you make the same money? Do you think I don't work harder than you to earn what I earn?
How about I take a hit to 250k, and you take a hit to 34k, sharing a 17% reduction across the board
that's much more fair, family
>>25416686
>half the kids raised in a nice environment turn out to be worthless pieces of shit
go that the other way around m8
visit detriot and talk to the hardworking, underpriviledged souls there
>>25416791
>literally
There goes that word again
Also
>choosing to live in China
Dropped
>>25416768
Unless you are able to get hired in work in the field relevant to your studies right off the bat (which you won't unless you have contacts/connections) virtually no job is going to care what GPA you had in school was. lol
>>25416824
How do I get approved for this loan? I have no assets.
>>25416831
>I bet you want to go to comp sci to make useless video games like every other mouthbreathing tard shitting up the major worldwide.
Resorting to insulting me, because you feel better than me, typical rich person. And no, I want to work in embedded systems. I develop operating systems in my free time. I'm working on a compiler for a new language I made myself.
>>25414129
> also i have no idea how you'd do it if you didn't start working your ass off at 11
I disagree, from my experience at least, I found that you could start working hard towards the end of high school, get a good GPA, go to a good university, do tons of extracurriculars whilst maintaining good academic standards & apply to as many 'top-tier' internships as possible. Eventually, if you're driven/smart enough, you'll get one - then it's just a case of working fucking hard to get a full offer.
>!Ooh femanon, you're such a gold digger for wanting a man who makes good money and is in the middle class or upper middle class. What an awful woman you are! You should accept a life of struggles and poverty for yourself and your children
>>25416825
generally those making in the lower 6 figures (100k-300k) are not people of extreme wealth but instead are likely small business owners or professionals such as doctors or executive positions in businesses.
These are not people that just get handed shit, business owners work their dick off and have an absurd failure rate in the early years, and people like doctors work 80+ hours a week literally making life or death decisions
To make 40k likely means you work a menial middle management job which, although soul-sucking, does not require you to "work" beyond 40 hours per week, pays overtime if you do, and you get to leave your "work" at home when you clock out for the night.
>>25415736
You're using my tax money to pay for social programs I support. What's wrong with that? As an added bonus, every dollar you spend is a dollar that doesn't end up in Dick Cheney's pocket, spent on a bullet to kill someone I didn't know and had no problem with, until I literally paid to have his family killed, so now he wants to murder me.
Go forth and use social services with my blessing.
>>25416917
>your children
Fuck off cuck
Paula probably majored in nigger studies or something.
>>25413609
Needs one more panel where Paula is contemplating suicide and Richard is telling her over the internet that suicide is a cowardly and selfish act.
>>25416929
I don't support it, cuck. I want my money to go to murdering sand niggers.
>>25416896
Do you not have a credit history? Credit card?
Please tell me you have at least built up some credit history to maximize your creditworthiness should you need to take a loan like you do now in our hypothetical example
>>25416952
So go to your recruitment center and join up, pussy.
>>25416931
It's called "Bachelor's of BBC".
>>25413609
by working very hard for people like me... i'll pay you guys good... I promise...
>>25416410
>>25416484
You're really playing a huge risk if you're banking everything on her sticking with you until family dies/she marries you.
>>25416964
I do not. My parents have always warned me to never get a credit card like the idiots they are. Now they are crack heads in a trailer park. All I have is about 500$ in my savings account.
suicide
maybe god will make you a rich mans baby next time
my plan desu
I really don't want to jynx this since whenever I say anything to do with anything that might benefit my future, it never fucking happens. But I come from a scraping by middle class family (3 other siblings) but recently my older bro came back from uni and met up with some of his highschool buddies. Apparently one of his friends is the son of a guy high up from the bank of scotland, and through that contact has a job as a banker, already bought a Jaguar despite being only 20. My brother spoke to him asking if there's any jobs he could get me there, and he said he can get me an intern ship, see how I handle myself.
All it takes is contacts and luck.
>>25415244
Being rich would be swell. Except now your life is shitty because you're poor.
>>25416969
I want my money to murder them, not my time. I have anime to watch.
>>25416992
>20 years old
>$40,000 car
Thanks, based wage slave. I make my money off people like you buying shit you don't need. Your brother probably paid my bills this month.
>>25417044
Edgy af. No self respect or pride, a coward in every sense of the word, but here you are on an Egyptian camel dating site, being edgy as fuck.
Millennials.
Smash a glass and eat the pieces, please do it now.
>>25415361
being a little older now, this post coupled with the pic is actually pretty ironic
>>25416984
I'm not and will do just fine for myself regardless of martial situation, finishing my 4th year of studies and have done 3 internships during that time and built connections during all of them
but 2.5 mil is game over money which would be an obvious boost and make a lot of initial problems (affording a house, making ends meet) disappear
even if i don't get a dime of the money but me and her stick together we'll both earn over 100k (pre-tax) within the next 5 years so we'll be okay, and i'm a figurative jew and know how to live below my means to build savings
you don't
and it's capitalist brainwashing that makes you think you can
>>25413807
This.
If you are middle to upper middle, the story turns into Paula around the 6th or 7th frame down.
>>25413609
I got a degree in Computer Science from a state university. Best investment I've ever made.
>>25416916
i couldn't have done that because my neighborhood high school was too shitty to get me into a good college
the best possible school kids get into from there is ole miss
so i had to go to boarding school
>>25417103
>a coward in every sense of the word
I'm not scared, I've just got better things to do.
> Egyptian camel dating site
I don't think you understand this meme.
>>25413609
I have by no means escaped it, but I'm on my way there, and you only have two options;
1. Win the lottery
2. Work, work, work, every single day.
If you're interested in my life;
>Moved house multiple times as a kid, lived in a lot of shitty flats and bedsits
>eventually move in with my grandparents
>there are two good secondary schools in my area, but you have to take a test to get in
>family saves to get me some textbooks
>literally revise every single evening for 6 months to make sure I pass
>i do, go to good secondary school
>work hard as fuck to achieve good grades
>get exclusively As & A*s
>get into 6th form and work hard as fuck to pass A-Levels
>simultaneously get my first job to bring a bit of cash home to my mum and save for uni
>gets A's
>go to top 10 uni
>work hard, get decent degree
>soon as I've handed in my dissertation, start applying for every single fulltime job going
>get a full-time temp job for shitty pay and start the day after my graduation
>work hard as fuck for a year
>get permanent part-time post, and another part time post
>work hard as fuck doing two jobs for a year
>one role get extended so I'm permanent and full time
>work hard as fuck for a year so that I become essential to the running of the department
>get email from head of department before i left for xmas this year that I can re-write my job description to something a bit more suited to my role, and that this may come with a payrise
>have done so and sent it to him
>we shall see where it leads after I come back in the New Year
but keep your fingers crossed for me lads, I'm climbing that career ladder!
>putting people into sweeping generalizations doesn't work
Shocker.
>>25417208
You want to send kids to the desert to carry out a genocide against people who haven't done anything wrong because you "have better things to do" then go to war? If it's worth paying kids to do, it's worth doing yourself.
Unless you're a pussy.
You're not a pussy, are you, anon?
>>25417245
>he had to work and slave away for years just for shitty pay and hoping to have a stable position
Poor people.
>>25417146
look at the sources for these pictures and tell me how many times you see Emmanuel Saez and the Economic Policy Institute
Look at how many more have no visible source
The evidence in this picture isn't as diverse as you're led to believe
>>25417281
>If it's worth paying kids to do, it's worth doing yourself.
Lol literally false
And lol at that cuckoldry, go back to reddit.
>>25417286
Yeah dude, thats what this thread is about... did you not read OP?
>>25417245
Sounds like a nightmare to be honest.
Why do poor people have kids if they're just going to be forced to run on this bullshit hamster wheel?
I'd rather kill myself, desu.
>>25417319
>back to reddit
Well meme'd.
Pussy.
>>25417322
Too bad you weren't born into a good household like me. I never have to worry about money. ;^)
>>25417355
Post a picture of your hand desu
>>25415394
>polyamory
fuck this hits way too close to home
It's basically impossible.
Your only hope is saving enough money to start a business and praying that it doesn't fail and destroy you, or striking it insanely lucky and becoming some kind of celebrity author/musician/actor/media personality.
The system is rigged to ensure that almost nobody can advance beyond this point, and, equally, so that those above have to *really* fuck up to fall below it.
You're supposed to stay poor. The system can't function if the majority of the population isn't poor. You have to be saving fast to even be saving at all, too. Inflation and the rising cost of living mean all the money saved in the 2000's only goes about half as far now as it did then.
Shit, even in 2012 a trip to the grocery store cost me a little over $100. Now it almost costs me $200.
The scariest thing is, that in the lower middle class, you are never more than one bad year from being trailer trash again.
>>25417051
That's not my brother who bought the car.
I'm simply stating that his friend, who works for the bank due to his dad being high up in it, can throw around money he doesn't need.
>>25417396
>a trip to the grocery store costs me $200
CITYFAGS HAHAHAHAHJAJAHAHAJAHHAHAHAAHAH
>>25417396
>even in 2012 a trip to the grocery store cost me a little over $100. Now it almost costs me $200.
The hell are you buying?
>>25417396
Did you put on a lot of weight?
>>25417429
I'm not in a city, I'm amish country. The very opposite of a city.
>>25417451
No, I have actually lost weight because I can no longer afford to eat.
>>25417327
Its kind of shitty if I stop and consider it for long enough; but you just have to play the game with the hand life gave you, so since there's nothing I can do about the way I started out, I can only work my ass off and hope things continue getting better.
I do want children eventually, but I agree with you that I wouldn't want my children to live the same life that I have; my hopes are to buy a house in the next 5-10 years so that I can provide a stable home for them and they never have to move.
>>25417372
Can't choose who you're born to - congrats on getting a better roll of the dice!
>>25417477
Do you smoke/drink?
>>25416515
You had civics as a senior? Shit dude we did that in 8th grade.
Murican here btw senpai
>>25416367
Maybe in your shitty country but here in AMERICA we have books dedicated to american subjects. Unlike yours where you have a paragraph on hitler and that's europe history.
>>25417507
>not being able to buy food
>buying booze or fags instead
are you dumb
>>25417502
>I wouldn't want my children to live the same life I have
hence why the rich stay rich
It's true that hard work and discipline, physical and mental, has its benefits and should be pursued.
But it's also true that our society is deeply fucked, we're being swallowed into an abyss of degeneracy and immorality. This country should be for the people that live here and not for a bunch of globalist kikes. This is why I'm not a libertarian.
It's extremely hard even with hard work and talent to escape the lower middle class. I'm able to save basically all my money at a $70k/yr job because I live with my parents, and even I will never achieve any notable wealth even if I invest every cent. How can someone who wants to actually start a family get ahead?
And I make $70k, that's more than most people do.
>>25417531
There are people who are that retarded, I'm just wondering how you manage to spend $200 on food I'm assuming monthly without being horribly overweight.
>>25417452
Exactly what sort of food are you buying? Is it all organic and NO GMO or something
You can get a good brand of ramen for $1 a packet on Amazon
All the problems in my life stem from having to deal with the general population a daily basis to earn money. If I had money, I would literally have no problems in life
Everyone ITT including richanon in particular should go watch "From the Heroic life of the Burgeoisie" by Sternheim.
>>25417387
Haha no, pussy.
>>25417616
That's what I thought, sand nigger.
>>25414737
>rages when dindus blame everyone else ror their own problems
> blames victim girl
> nobody even nlamed Richard
> wants victim to blame the circumstances they were born in instead of working harder
Underage and jew.
>>25413609
I agree with this comic, it's true, albeit I would argue that only in the USA
I live in an european country, I come from a middle to high family and I'm studying at a university alongside people from poor backgrounds who won't have any problem surpassing me, this is because uni students receive scholarships based on their family income. I, of course, don't receive any because I'm relatively wealthy.
What I like the most about this comic is how it shows how retarded SJWs are with white privilege, male privilege, thin privilege and all that shit when the only privilege that exist is money
But you have yet to see them argue "rich privilege" because they are full of themselves
>>25417534
Pretty much. I mean, if I made millions (ha ha ha, but lets pretend for a minute this is possible), I have to admit that I probably wouldn't give all of it away.
I'd just feel like if I worked my ass off for my entire life to get this money, why should anyone not related to me be entitled to any of it? Its probably the wrong attitude to have, and what perpetrates the rich/poor divide at the moment, but it's an attitude I can understand.
>>25417627
>le racism meme
well meme'd yet again, good sir!
>>25415546
Do you just buy mass produced stuff for cheap online?
>>25417721
>implying it's a meme
You are inherently inferior to actual human beings.
Save 20%+ of your income. Looking at wikipedia, the lower-middle class is defined by someone with a gross annual income of $33k-$60k. If you save 20% each year, you'll have $6.6k-$12k.
Once you have half of your annual earnings in a bank account (emergency fund), you'll want to save up until you have over $100k, then you can consider investing, being a landlord, etc. Of course, getting 6 figures is not exactly easy when you're dirt poor, which is why you shouldn't leave all your savings in a normal savings account. Assuming you're young, you should consider investing at least half of them (excluding the emergency funds) into an index fund. On average they have an annual growth of 7%-10%. This would mean that within a decade, you would've doubled your money. This'll make it easier for you to reach 100k without having to starve.
>>25414550
fuck off
spoiled bourgeois scum
>>25417555
$200 a month is a mental amount to spend on food for one person. I spend roughly that to feed two, and we eat really well...
I would hope that no-one is that retarded, but I do know that there are no limits to human stupidity.
>>25417507
No and no.
mootblox
>>25417568
Good luck living on ramen, bro.
That shit's like 200 calories.
>>25413609
I'm a little late, but I want everyone reading this thread to know that if you're poor, you have opportunities and resources available to help you get into school. You really shouldn't be here if you're underage b&, but hopefully this info helps someone out.
Colleges want diversity, including financial diversity. Top colleges want high achieving, low-income students to apply despite financial difficulty.
There are schools that promise to meet 100% of demonstrated financial need. Schools that do are usually competitive though. Even if you are not low income, there are also schools that vow to have students graduate with the least amount of debt possible. If you want to know more about a certain school's financial aid policy, just look them up on the Princeton Review.
Sign up for ACT/SAT fee waivers, obviously. It also helps later on by allowing you to complete common applications for free too.
There are organizations such as QuestBridge that aim to specifically assist low-income, high achieving students. If you become a QuestBridge finalist, you can apply to all their partner schools for free and pretty much be guaranteed a full ride if your get accepted.
If you want to apply to competitive schools but you can't afford to be involved in extracurriculars because you need to work, colleges are actually really understanding about that.
Anyway, my point is that being low income on top of being a good student has its advantages too.
>>25417706
I think you'd find that if you woke up one day and all the poor people were gone, social mobility would be awfully difficult. The rich would restratify, and you'd be at the bottom, oil shieks would be at the top, Donald Trump would be somewhere in the middle, but it would be difficult to accumulate much more wealth if not for all the wealth created by the working poor, given to the rich in the form of surplus labor.
I've never worked a real job in my life, and I owe it all to the people maximizing the value of the shares in my investments. These days I work for poor people for free. I intend to continue this as a going concern. My children will never work a job unless they want to, there would be no need. There is plenty of important work that needs to be done that nobody will pay anybody to do.
Personally I think wage slavery is degeneracy, the ultimate cuckoldry, and somehow poor people have justified it as something noble and necessary, when they should be quite upset with their parents for having given birth to them in the first place, continuing the cycle of poverty. Someone earlier in the thread talked about "real wealth" that he was going to gain through wage slavery.
>mfw people believe that's possible.it's not
>>25417894
540 for Shin Ramen, the brand in question
>>25416348
People who have had only 1 partner their entire life tend to cheat the most. Women tend to get bored of the same dick day in and day out, and will want to experiment with some juicy black cock.
Once the inevitable does happen, you won't be able to break up with her because you already have plans on what to do with the cash. You'll be cucked for a few years, and then she'll divorce you for an equally rich chad.
>>25417955
and shin is nowhere near the most economic brand
>>25413609
>whinging
everytime
>>25413609
Yeah, class divisions are a problem, but guys, we should get our priorities in order. We need feminism because people are divided more by gender than by class, even the author recognises it by making the lower class person a female.
Also, yes, I am implying all women are necessarily going to be in the same situation, this is due to white male privilege.
Not making sense? That's because you need to check your privilege.
>>25418038
>feminism
>dear god
>>25417955
>>25417978
ramen is by no means the only option, either
http://www.leannebrown.com/good-and-cheap.pdf
>>25415394
>there is no such thing as polyamory
Jesus Christ, it's pretty obvious you're just following the 'anti-sjw' trend instead of treating each side critically. Polyamory predates monogamy you stupid bastard.
>>25418038
this familiaso
czech my privilege dubs
GAS THE RICH CLASS WAR NOW
>>25418106
I'm neither of the guys you quoted but I love you for posting that link, that book looks extremely helpful.
>>25413672
Lmao, this guyy knows
>>25414550
Can you give me some money friendo? I honestly do sympathise with the family issues, parents sound like shit.
>tfw from rich family in Nigeria
>tfw 3 houses (big ones) back home
>tfw Uncle dies in 2011
>tfw money should trickle down to me by now with how our culture works (about $50,000)
>tfw Uncle's wives won't let go of the money that is rightfully ours
Here's what happens in our culture, when your brother dies, even if he had wives/children the money goes to his brother (my father). But with all this new age feminist bullshit, even my home country is getting a does of female stupidity.
It's not like we wouldn't support them and put them up in a nice place, we just need to take control after he dies so no one will question if it was murder or take a larger percentage of his wealth.
It's how it's always been, until now, fucking NOW! WHY?!
>inb4 Nigerian Prince
We were poor when we moved to the U.S. decade ago, no help from Uncle since my father won't leggo his ego. We all worked hard and now there's doctors/nurses/business in our circle of the family.
>>25418750
Just scam some people from the U.S. maybe a wire fraud scam? Claim you're a Nigerian prince, that should work.
>>25418811
>We all worked hard and now there's doctors/nurses/business in our circle of the family.
Learn to read
>all these people complaining when average yearly pay in my "European" country is under 3000 dollars and most people barely live off minimum wages here.
Feels good being a slav mang. Atleast living costs co later to income are somewhat stable.
>>25418750
You should ask a lawyer not r9k
>>25413791
But I'm not a nigger.
And this comment is original.
>>25418922
Already dealing with it, it's Culture vs Law.
This is the first time in our senpai that this is happening.
lol my dad is just flew over there and started selling off my Uncle's estates. Shit fucked me up senpai, no father figure because he's too busy trying to fix something that he shouldn't be worried about, allbecause of women.
>>25413609
You don't, unless you have extreme luck. I tried by going into IT, what I thought was a performance-based field, but there is no such thing as that. Anyone with connections has to seriously fuck up for you to have any chance of passing them.
But, just because Mr. Shekelberg and his boy are making 10x more than my paltry $40k/year forever, that doesn't mean I can't be happy and comfortable. I've still got things pretty good.
is there a way for fembots to make money online without streaming games or being a degenerate?
I just dont want to leave the house to work.
>>25419179
If you don't want to use what's between your legs, why even mention it's there?
>>25413609
death.
sharp like the edge of a samurai sword/10
>>25419179
Maybe if you stopped being a fucking stuck up bitch, someone who knows how to would have enough courage to start talking to you about it, then teach you how.then possibly ask you out so you two could build an empire
>eWw business
>eWw numbers
I bet you're one of those retards that would fall for MLM 5Linx, AVN pyramid schemes.
>>25414462
>mfw
have me
>>25419179
incall escort
As a lower middle class white male who has an upper high class white male best friend, I most certainly agree with this picture.
His dad is always getting him internships and jobs, but the kid is so sheltered from his parents during his younger years that all he really does is play videogames all day.
>>25413609
what is "polytech"
Money might not equal instant happiness but it must give you more options to find it. I'd rather have money than not have it.
t. robot from working class family
>>25414462
all you guys shitting on this person - as someone who knows the struggle of the lower class very well, I have to tell you that you're all wrong in doing so. literally all LIFE is miserbale. There is NO EXCEPTIONS. Whatever "happiness" comes to you in life will be paid back twice in suffering, or death if you're lucky.
>>25414514
Have you not seen babey?
>>25414550
>money doesn't change how happy you are
Literal no one but people with money have ever said this.
>have a normie acquaintance
>turbo-normie from the Normie Kingdom of Oz
>parents were wealthy
>has a sister that graduated from Harvard
>brother has a Master's in something and is also successful
>normie guy is part of a small group doing contracts involving programming and is successful
>doesn't understand how other people can have bad lives
>doesn't understand how some people can dislike one or both parents
>doesn't understand saving every penny you have when you have next-to-nothing
>doesn't understand depression or anxiety
>thinks anxiety is the same as being shy
>gives advice and genuinely believes it applies to every situation
The sheer ignorance is fucking astounding.
>tfw come from very middle class home
>tfw my older sister got all the good genes and is now a business owner set for life
>tfw I'm still struggling to figure out what I want to do, was cursed with horrid genetics and hate myself
fuck
>>25414758
How is coming from a large farm family (land, livestock, crops) denote poverty?
Like you're not going to cotillion, but you're probably not going hungry either.
>>25414893
>gf
G E T O U T
E
T
O
U
T
get the fuck out normie. there was absolutely no reason to menton gf in your little anecdote other than to showboat and "muh speshul relationship problems arent they tough robots hehe"
>>25421179
Theres no reason to show your insecurity either.
>>25415210
A $30k loan carries an additional $8,250 interest at 5%. Good luck paying all that off on $20k a year while also spending more than half that on bare survival, not to mention taxes.
Not saying it cant be done, but it's not as easy as
>jus werk harder ;^)
>>25415244
Dubs confirm 44 extra chromosomes
Not social
>just be yourself ;)
No money
>just work harder ;)
>>25415736
If you are single male, you can't get welfare at all, at least in my state(CA). You might be able to get ebt for food, but I hope you like ramen noodle, cause thats what youll be able to afford.
Hope you make it. I gave up a few years ago.
>>25415701
>Jews want to put these people into 25K - 30k per year jobs
You work that shitty job for 2-3 years and hop to anyone who is offering more. Do that every 2-3 years and you will end up making high 5 to low 6 figures.
Employer loyalty to employees is dead. Don't give them any loyalty. You are only worth what they they offer you when they hire you.
>All the logic ITT
Poor people are so dumb lmao
>>25422121
I know right? Now let's go eat caviar on our yachts that our daddy bought us. I don't even like caviar lol. I'm just gonna dump it over the side.
>>25413609
So I don't get it if I'm rich what are u saying I should give away all my money? I'm humble and know that I got a lot of shit hooked up by my parents but wouldn't you do the same for your children given the opportunity? I don't get the point that comic makes
>>25415929
Fucking this. I wish I was Red Chinese. Having a pencil dick would be worth it to get to bayonet some round eye babies ~2040.
>>25414462
doesn't sound like your parents did anything wrong except raise a ungrateful fuck like yourself and two siblings who can't hold the shit in their diapers.
>>25413609
By declining into the lower or underclass as conditions worsen and governments do nothing to intervene. :^)
>>25417998
>whinging
^ This, triggered as fuck, fuck whatever retard made this comic, they deserve to be serving me food.
>>25414761
yeah fuck what you know
it's who you know
and more importantly who you know that can hook you up with a job.
rip to all my average friends who neither excelled in college nor have job connections because you ain't getting shit.
>>25416174
Pic related originak fuckingnoutnmynass
>>25413791
>almost free healthcare (except teeth)
Why is it always except teeth?
Is universal fucking dentistry really that expensive?
I wouldn't even mind if they were reasonable in how they defined a cosmetic procedure, but they never are. Unless you're literally dying because of how fucked your mouth is, pay or fuck off.
>>25415673
>work harder and better than those people.
They still fail. They work hard, sometimes equally hard, but in the end they fail.
'Jus work harder :^)' is basically an excuse for society to overlook how unfair it is by transferring the blame onto people failed by society.
>>25420954
only people with money are in a position to know.
>>25416680
Where does the $20k materialize from?
>>25413609
>Just because I'm white people tell me I lived a life like column A instead of column B, which is reserved for MINORITIES ONLY.
Racists.
LITERALLY all you have to do is just work hard and just be yourself
THATS IT
>>25416859
I dont think you work harder in your higher paying job. Perhaps you worked harder getting to that point, but you must be high on dick dust to say a manager works harder than the people they manage.
>>25416859
>Do you think I don't work harder than you to earn what I earn?
Different anon but yes.
Low-end jobs also often require grueling work effort. It's not really about working "hard", it's getting to the right positions where the right kind of hard work at the right time will get you to a position where working hard will net you profits that are astronomical compared to what other people will get for working just as hard and often even harder.
It's not like successful people don't work hard, it's just that working hard on its own doesn't guarantee shit and the rich people also had mad luck and/or a boost from being born from the right womb
>>25422395
australia does teeth
>>25414761
>the american dream is dead
It was only really alive for a brief period from about the 50s to the mid-70s.
>>25416831
Living proof that doesn't work. I graduated with the basic AS (math) at 18, couldn't afford 4 year, couldn't get loan cause parent's shitty credit, used up "gibs me dats" paying for community college. Join USNavy for half decade to make money for BS(electical engineering), get told credits earned in Navy (aviation electrician) don't apply to CSU (can barely afford with GI Bill). Not accepted anyway cause no extracorriculars in high school (home schooled cause parents godfags), 3.8gpa not good enough, too old, etc...
Fuckit, neetlyfe
>>25415982
>what can be done about it?
reform of the education system. free tuition, even if only in non-women'sstudies tier degrees (>free, but it's still society investing in itself.)
>>25415221
>I know a guy who complains about the 1% all the time but he spends his money on weed and video games.
Even back in victorian times they identified this. (though it was alcohol for the most part.)
life sucks, people earn just enough to get by if they spent money like a machine, but people aren't machines and they need small indulgences to stave off suicide.
Selling drugs obviously.
>>25413609
No, OP. Bernie is not going to save you either, because he will not be elected.
>/r9k/ gives life advice
>>25415612
>Give me a legitimate reason for raising taxes on the upper class that doesn't stem from insecurity or asshurt
reducing inequality (read:bigger middle class) is good for the economy.
>They likely pay more in absolute dollars than you as it is
your first dollar is worth less to you than your billionth, progressive taxation as a whole is built on this idea.
(>progressive, it's not called that because it's "progressive" in the SJW sense, but because the tax-rate PROGRESSES the more you earn.)
>and the higher you raise taxes, the less incentive people have to work hard and strive for more
only when taxes start to reach ridiculous levels.
>>25417555
Depends on how/were you live. In my current situation $200 covers about 2 and a halkf weeks worth of food. And thats eaten 'cheepo' like ramen and pb&j and plain oatmeal.
>>25417955
Literally nothing but carbs, fat, and way too much salt. Good luck with your 80 year old body at 22.
>>25413609
by now having my children look like 70 year old pensioners
>>25414462
> If I cause a tantrum, my parents stop sending me my 5 figure monthly allowance
> a.k.a I have to live like a normal person
>>25419364
Lol.
>ebay has a learning curve
Whats up with those 6 open cases?
>>25422395
So does America. Not the same level of care as what you pay for, but whatevs.
>>25422539
False. How would they know the crushing anxiety, depression, self doubt, hunger, cold, etc... that comes from being poor?
>>25413791
Speaking as an expat living in Finland, the taxes are close to triple other places, everything is more expensive, and you have an awful lot of your life being dictated to you rather than choosing what you want to pay into or be apart of. Government controls a lot of things.
>British
>Everyone can get university loan
>Dont have to pay a penny back until your earning more than 21000GBP(31000USD)
>Even then you only pay 9% of anything above 21000GBP
>If your degree didnt help you at all, why should you pay for it?
laughing at all of the americucks. idgaf if you have the best unis tbqh family
>>25413609
who /fullonpoverty/ here
is there any escape
>tfw live in trailer park no income household at 20 NEET living with hoarder mom whos is agoraphobic. in a small town of 1500 people with no financial help from anyone. no car no licence, no job references.
Is there any hope anyone like me can make it out of poverty? or am i seriously doomed to be a retail clerk, burger flipper, or wagecuck my whole life..peroid.
i cant live like this
should i just kill myself
>>25414462
then can i have some money if you dont need it, then?
Im about to be evicted and my mom is 100 grand in the hole from her stroke and we are stricken to living in what is just short of a slum.
we didnt get to have christmas. and i never knew what financial stability was like as a child.
>>25414849
Now you're thinking like a Jew! No wonder theyre so rich.
>>25424695
At least you have the internet.
I grew up with a hoarder mother too, its the fucking worst.
Get whatever shitty job you can and start saving up. Use the internet to learn some kind of marketable skill and move the fuck out when you get the chance. I recommend programming since you can get an entry-level developer job without needing a degree.
>>25413609
1) Get good grades in high school or play a sport at a high level.
2) Go to as good a college as you can get accepted to. Plenty of good schools are state schools (UCLA, Berkeley, Virginia, Michigan) and not that expensive.
3) Major in something useful.
4) Intern over the summers in your field. Work during the year to build a work history.
5) Take a job in your field right out of school even if it's for slightly less money than you're anticipating.
6) Live below your means until you're 30 and/or postpone marriage and/or kids as long as possible.
That's literally a roadmap to the upper middle class. There's nothing that you can't do here. A person of even below average intelligence can get a 3.5-3.7 in high school just by working hard. With those grades you can get into a good state school. With a good school and good grades in college you get the internship. With the internship you get into the workforce and you're on your way.
>>25422395
>Why is it always except teeth?
it is your own fault if you fuck up your teeth and wont brush them and drink sodas all the time like a fucking manchild. same with obese people not getting free weight loss surgery. and same should be with cigarette smokers getting lung cancer
>>25423538
That's why you don't think Bernie will "save us"? Not because of his polices, but rather because he is not electable?
>>25415268
>implying the spoilt ameritard brats dont deserve to be beaten daily.
>>25424831
orthodontics are much more expensive than repairing a mouth where every single tooth has a cavity.
>>25424828
>intern over the summers
Top kek let me just fly off to internship land where internships grow on trees.
>>25414462
cool. i have lived below poverty most of my life and on one happy occasion was treated for starvation at a hospital for a couple months for free. my father died while i was 5 or 6 in an industrial accident and the insurance money was squeezed and taxed enough so that it barely covered childcare and rent while my mother worked two jobs. even with a bachelors in chemistry there just wasn't any jobs around other than at a food factory (packaged cookies/pastries) and at a grocery store (cashier). smallish city feeling the squeeze as the companies refused to pay for overtime and purposely scheduled people for 30 hours so they couldn't get full time benefits.
medical stuff was expensive, and while i went to school and did alright, the school was crowded without enough supplies or staff to go around.
eventually i finished high school and because of money problems (around 2005? when we tried refinancing to send me to college to supplement a few grants i got the loan turned out to be a predatory one and we nearly lost the house) i had to find work at a factory assembling appliances for $15 an hour.
now i'm trying to save up to pay off housing debts, keep people healthy and fed, and hopefully go to college, but the rising costs of, well, everything and the diminished buying power of the hourly wage and pressure from groups willing to work the same job cheaper means that i might not have a job much longer.
at nearly 60 years old my mom is still working two jobs to just keep above the waterline. i think i'll be forced into the army or something just so i won't be a burden anymore.
it's really hard to make money when you very nearly have nothing leftover to "save" or "invest" because the paltry sum left from taxes and bills and essentials has to cover any emergency expenses and can't be used to generate any money. one fine or citation or disaster and i could lose the car, we could be homeless, or worse.
>>25424695
Also full pov. Shitty trailer in the woods with no running water since everything froze. Last meat I ate was some doves I killed as they migrated.
Don't kill yourself, kill those rich cunts and their fancy establishments. Gunpowder is cheep, conviction is not.
>>25424831
So people falling on their face doesn't happen?
>>25424374
Lol
>He doesn't know about "UPI eBay"
I bet you're one of those little faggots that buys something then realizes he's too poor to afford it.
Blame one of your 12 cats for pressing the "Buy" button next time
>>25424954
>internship land
I majored in accounting in college. I interned at Deloitte 2 summers.
The qualifications to be an intern at Big D were
1) Major in accounting, finance, economics, etc.
2) Have decent grades.
3) Show up.
That was it. We had like 10 interns that summer who did essentially nothing actual work related. There was so little to do that we didn't even have to do grunt stuff that much.
But that internship got me my first job, which got me my 2nd job, so on and so forth.
Engineering has internship charity shit like that also. Most banks do the same thing for finance/business majors.
You might have to go outside but you can do it. Or rather you could have done it, if you were smarter.
>>25425049
Why the selfy? Shouldn't that go in /soc?
>>25425068
Engineering here
Signed up for engineering career services freshman year, wrote up my resume, got it revised with an advisor every year
Attended an engineering related club where we designed and constructed a formula 1 racecar for two years and had projects under my belt including designing a PCB from scratch
Attended every career fair (two a year)
Applied to atleast 30 jobs every semester
But I was a white male with a subpar gpa (3.1) so I guess Im lazy
>>25424828
>>25424828
YOU DONT KNOW WHAT YOU ARE TALKING ABOUT!
The average GPA of high school students entering the better UC schools in 2015 was OVER a 4.0!
http://admission.universityofcalifornia.edu/counselors/freshman/profiles/
>>25415834
>went to shit uni because you got shit A levels
>learnt jack shit at uni - too busy jacking off
>lucky enough to get a paying job straight away
>complains that he has to work hard.
Just become the dole-scum that you are destined to be. Be grateful that you dont have to pay back your uni loan
>>25415673
Yes! Listen to this goy, he is right on the shekel!
>>25414462
>I'll never have to worry about money
Stopped caring right there, fuckboi.
>>25415934
its called a cycle. You stay ahead of what all the others are doing. People dont instantly change their minds.
>>25425159
>weighted GPA
I think my weighted GPA was like 4.3 or something. My real GPA was 3.6. I took every honors/AP class I was allowed to take.
Got on the honors track by not being retarded. That was pretty much all it took.
>>25414630
MILITARY PRIVILEGE!
>>25416282
>r9k fucking mentality
>>25417998
>>25422293
>Whinging
I'm surprised so few people noticed or cared about this.
That said, Richard is a real waste of oxygen. With all that education and income, he can't even pronounce simple word.
>>25415244
wow you are really the most spineless and idiotic shit ever.
>>25416515
We learn all 4 at the same time because our teaches can know more than 1 thing at once.
>>25414805
Both of my parents went to big-name universities in the seventies (USC and UCLA) respectively, and left with BA's in electrical engineering, which they then turned around to get high-paying jobs at Boeing. Their combined salaries are in the low $450 k range. They honest to God expect me to have the same ridiculous success they enjoyed, and haven't had to search for a job in over thirty years, so they have no idea how fucked the job market is.
I'm currently scrambling to finish my BA in Psych, with a minor in Spanish and Vietnamese (I live in SoCal, so being bi or tri lingual is a necessity for a job). When I get out, I will be looking at a starting salary of around $50 k a year. And that's a damn good starting salary.
The two of them will not shut the fuck up about me being a worthless piece of shit. To be fair, they are correct. I am a worthless piece of shit. But I don't need to be reminded of it all the time.
>>25416578
>horrible history of class division
WWII where because of rationing everyone was equal and people pretty much liked it that way so it stuck for a while. Everyone liked the idea of socialism. Its starting to wear away though.
>>25425299
>>25425159
What even is this. None of the schools I went to used them. What gives you extra? Student council?
>>25416656
>200000 is more than 4x 40000
Ameritard maths. Its 5x 40000
>>25425664
>200000 > 4x40000
Is still true dumbass.
Disregarding all the self-centric advice, what about the people that just don't make the cut? Are the unfortunate and the unlucky supposed to suffer so that everyone else can be comfortable? Why can't we strive towards a society where hard work actually does equal success so that all that are willing can become productive members of society instead of slaving away to survive just because they were born to a poor family? Or just missed that scholarship? Or didn't get that job?
>>25414462
This is the most obvious bait ever. Why are all of you morons still responding.
Meanwhile, in Scandinavia:
>Flemming is a regular guy born in to upper white class where both parents work in a bank
>Salma is the daughter of two to, her father a taxi driver and her mom a cleaning lady
>Flemming grows up believing the world is built for him and he can just lean back and let things come to him
>Salma grows up on stories of war and oppression, and realizes how lucky she is that her parents moved to Scandinavia
>Flemming goes on to become a hipster who lives off his parent's money while studying something retarded like art or culinary sciences
>Salma gets a part time job as a teenager to help out at home and works hard to get good grades in the school she's actually allowed to attend, as compared to the country her parents are from
>Flemmin ends up becoming a barista and later opens his own coffee place which fails miserably before he goes on welfare
>Salma studies medicine, becomes an amazing doctor, marries a Scandinavian man and have 3 kids
I am seeing this all around me nowadays, and it makes me happy.
>>25425622
AP classes and Honors classes gave 5.0 for an A, 4.7 for A-, 4.3 for a B+, 4.0 for a B, etc. You didn't even need to pass the AP exam for those classes.
So basically once you're on the honors track, you've got a 4.0 guaranteed at least since nobody gives out C's to "smart kids" in high school.
My friend Kyle who went to Brown had a weighted GPA of something absolutely ridiculous like 4.7 or something. Straight As and every class he took besides PE/first couple years of math was some kind of honors or AP.
>>25425757
This is true.
I'm a high school teacher. And there's three groups of students in AP courses. Students who are desperate for the grades, and will fight you ever step of the way if you give them less than an A.
White kids, AKA "My parents will sue the school".
And the rare few students who are there to challenge themselves.
It's not worth it, honestly, to give failing grades to them.
>>25425744
U dont have to live like a refugee
>>25414550
You are right anon, money doesn't make me happy
But money can make my dreams come true, which if possible, make me happy
>>25425795
I teach high school too, and I don't see this. Most parents in the rich town I live in want their kids to "work hard" and if they fail they "deserve" it.
Then again, I only fail 2-3 kids tops every year. Of over 300 AP tests my students have taken, only 6 have gotten 1s or 2s.
Maybe you just live in a shitty town.
I'm not going to pretend to know the struggles of living in poverty because I don't. But as far as getting out of the lower middle class. Here is what my father did. Before him my whole family history is basically farming and only being able to survive because you can kill and eat livestock.
My father decided to work to be able to pay for college, and it took him a long time. He was 26 when he was finishing school. He realized he had to at least provide for his family while he sought out a better career so he took a shitty k-mart job. K-mart wasn't good to him, so he ditched it for a sales job. Eventually he found a department manager job at Walmart and worked up to assistant manager, he stuck with it for a while until an opportunity opened up to move up a position and he relocated, within a year he worked hard and kept applying for store manager positions throughout the US, eventually we relocated again and he's been the store manager in the same store for over 13 years and has served as the interim district manager on several occasions. It's not prestigious, but he makes six figures after his bonuses most years and owns several shares of the company.
He worked his ass off so I could have a comfortable life and I'm grateful for it, all the old farming stories make me scared that I might have lived that life too. I still raised pigs growing up, but it was a hobby and a way for me to earn money for college.
I don't know all the details of my dad's story, but I know that persistence, hard work, a desire for success and social skills are what you need to move up, and a little luck doesn't hurt either.
>>25414849
>TFW niccolo was right from the start
>>25425546
>BA in psych
No wonder
>>25415344
It's pretty sad that the large majority of those shitheads are likely never disciplined, good with money.
And to think they are the ones breeding the next generation.
>>25416859
>Do you think I don't work harder than you to earn what I earn?
You don't work 4x harder.
Not that it matters because taxing the 300k bracket is still hitting people who, while well off, aren't super well off. It's possible to work 4x harder, but 40x harder? is paying someone else to invest your existing wealth while living on interest really 400x harder? I have my doubts.
I escaped the lower middle class through academia.
My parents were working class and our lives were all fucked, we were broke, and they let me drop out the sixth grade. I became a friendless, severely fucked up hikkiNEET and menial labourer, and pretty much just played video games all the time.
When I was in my mid-late teens I had an existential crisis, when I realised that the best possible future for me was aimless hedonism and relative financial success. The rest of my life was going to be playing video games and just "passing the time," and the best I could hope for was that I would get unusually wealthy and be able to increase the ratio of time spent playing vidya to time spent working. That's it.
By then my few (and exclusively online) friends were sliding into that lifestyle permanently, but I knew one guy who was freaking out like I was. He decided that his goal was just to tip that ratio in his favour ASAP - to get rich and maximise his enjoyment of hedonism. I tried really hard to go with him, but in the end I was too terrified of the hedonic treadmill and of my life being meaningless. So I started committing every hour of every day to reading semi-chronologically through the "Western canon," with a heavy philosophical bent, and then later specialising in a certain field which would later become my major.
By the time I was 20, my avoidant and anxiety disorders were so bad that I was essentially an agoraphobic hermit. I started tackling them through self-administered exposure therapy and applied as a mature student to a shitty university the next year. I got a 4.0 and transferred to the best university in my country, finishing my BA in 2.5 years with a near 4.0. I applied for grad school at the same university and got a massive free ride scholarship. Just finished applying to several Ivy League universities for my final degree two weeks ago.
I'll finish rambling about what I think are the implications of all this in a second post.
>>25426849
Basically I'm torn. I want to say "work hard, follow your dreams!" but to be frank, I think I am the luckiest motherfucker in the world that I *had* dreams to begin with. It was basically a winning lottery ticket falling into the lap of a future deadbeat drug addict. I was willing to endure so much because, by some weird fluke, I knew already in my teens that I wanted to kill myself for this weird, abstract, unbelievably long-term goal. I just never had a social life, never took a break, and I was happier than I had ever been.
I've tried to export my experience to some of the people I know, and they just gave up after a week because they weren't interested in anything enough to keep at it. Doesn't matter whether it was academic or non-academic.
I'd say if you have a real hardcore passion, especially if it's an intellectual or academic one because that is (miraculously) marketable in our society, consider giving your life over to it. The competition in academia especially is fucking HORRIBLE. It's 99.999% rich kids with trust funds who can't even conceive of passionately committing themselves to their studies, everything is so goddamn workaday for them. They just turn it into a daycare centre and dayjob most of the time. Coming from a lower class background is a massive benefit because you're outside the system and you can see all the flaws inherent in it.
One other thing: If you have a passion, it will stagnate and you will fail unless you commit yourself to suffering for it for like ten years. This is every guy you know that has some wild dream of developing a revolutionary video game or writing a graphic novel but he never fucking does anything, and then suddenly he's too old. Go out and take your lumps IMMEDIATELY, get real experience in any way you can. An ounce of real experience, however shitty, is worth ten thousand pounds of projection about the future.
>>25427060
This is some real respectable shit, anon. I had a similar experience throwing myself into my passion after being on the fast track of minimum wage jobs and gaming.
To be perfectly honest, I was one of those middle class kids who went to college and didn't give a fuck about actually doing any work. Fortunately for me, when I don't care about something I'm not able to give a sufficient enough shit about it to pass. Failing out of college was what forced me to either accept being a piece of shit who does nothing with their life, or start pouring myself into something that I cared about. Now I have a masters and work in my field, getting praise daily about my dedication and skill.
I worry about my friend though. He's been a life-long academic who hasn't held a job for more than two weeks in his entire life. He's nearly 30 years old now, and finishing his second masters degree. I don't get the impression that he's at all interested in doing an actual job. He's never had to, his parents have paid his way this entire time. He's never developed that survival skill. If he doesn't get into one of the dozen or so doctoral programs he's applied to, he may end up going back to the shit NEET lifestyle that he was living after his first masters. I think it's pathetic.
It seems to me that the problems that rich people claim from being born rich are all due to their parents being assholes.
Fucking wah.
>>25413791
it's all going to go broke and collapse in the next 50 years
>>25418106
Thanks so much for this anon
You are a god sent
>>25415340
>>25415371
>>25415394
>>25415408
based
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By not being born in it you poorfags.
>>25414462
>oh no my parents dont send me free money
>>25413672
Pretty much. The university msystem is used to control social mobility and protect the status of the wealthy. I won't end until the Ivy league, at the very least, is completely dismantled.
>>25427060
This inspires me desu.
What did you major in?
>>25414462
>be me
>drug addict/alcoholic dad, gambling addict mother
>have an older sister who has a different dad
>has anxiety and literally jumps at loud noises from being raised around my dad since the age of about 5 or 6 who once threw a brick through her window when she was 10 because she wouldn't open the door to let him beat my mother and once even lit our backyard on fire
>sister has to spend middle school/high school years raising me as parents often disappears for weeks saying "we're going to the casino for a few hours"
>everything we ever owned that was half decent like our Nintendo 64 was pawned for casino money
>we're always hungry because my mum would leave us with not much more than a few cans of spaghetti and potato chips and if we were lucky would leave $20 for us to buy shit over the next 3 weeks
>dad eventually leaves my mum when I'm in 7th grade, that small income basically gone now as he was on a bunch of payments from being "injured at work", haven't seen him since
>spend 2 and a half out of the 3 years I was in high school homeless
>mum has a new kid
>failed the 11th grade because I couldn't take the stress of working and looking after little brother and trying to study
>my fucking face when you expect people to feel sorry for your poor fucking ivy league cunt siblings who are "nervous wrecks :(((" after their parents say mean words about their 6 figure career choices and when you say you were "completely abandoned" by them and when you say how hard having parents with high expectations was on you
>>25413733
At least it's no Zenpencils
>>25428288
poor little you, mommy and daddy didn't love you and sissy was jumpier than a hare. have a pat on the back.
if you're going to invoke 'waah, i had it worse so your suffering is irrelevant' you can shut the fuck up because at least you weren't a slavic child sex slave.
neither was i, i had a more comfortable life than you, but i can't tolerate serious use of 'other people have worse lives so you should be happy!' there's always someone worse off. either we accept all suffering or none of it.
>>25428359
What, did they fuck in the cafe or something?
>>25428593
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> be me
> 21 years old with barely a high school diploma
> had to take classes online in addition to regular classes because I'm a lazy faggot who didn't do homework
> get CDL right out of high school
> work my ass off driving truck/laboring for a construction company
> making $35k per year
> not glamorous, but I'm happy
Work. Do something blue collar. My retarded alcoholic boss would hire most of you faggots. Fucking NEETs would probably get fired for being lazy and/or stupid, but some of you could maybe make it.
>>25428624
The taken king!
>>25414446
Why does /pol/ think that hating the working poor and wanting to make them suffer is in anyway good? Please explain
>>25424962
Where you live anon?
I can help you out. From the fact that you got fucked by a predatory loan I am going to assume your issue isn't money but how you manage it.
I am not saying your finances are not tight in your current situation, but I have noticed that people in the lower class have a tendency to work so hard they cant see when its no longer their best option.
Are you or your family currently recieiveing any government assistance?
>>25414844
You're a faggot and your daddy gave you everything
>>25414129
You can't go to boarding school unless your parents are literally rich or you're a token minority student for the school.
>>25414550
can I have all of your money?
>>25417731
go on the ebay threads on /biz/
they just resell chinese shit and overcharge people
lots of people made a killing on hoverboards this year, but they only did it by being dishonest and using really high margins. this person doesn't run a business, they leech
>>25413609
>parents pay for tutor
>pay for college
>has a bunch of connections
>parents are doing "okay"
This author is retarded
>>25428288
Everytime I see parents like this, I just want to go berserk and kill them
>>25426849
>>25427060
this is good shit
rest of this thread is just shit
>>25427878
It was all fine and sustainable when there weren't niggers and they're turning nationalist again now so I don't think they'll get any too horrible problems.
>>25413609
You don't and you shouldn't. Lower and lower-middle class "people" are subhuman and need to know their place. God, when I take the train to my university, I'm surrounded by poor people and immigrants and it makes me want to puke. Take a shower once in a while, filthy animals.
>>25413609
Join the military but don't become a grunt
>>25413609
i have been very emotional today. this comic made me cry
>>25430534
I wonder what was seen as left leaning in the American 40s.
>>25430534
>hehe he's so racist
>he must be compensating for his height
>how tall are you, anon? Five feet what?
My parents are middle class but it's still hard. Dad dropped out of high school in the 10th grade and he's now an industrial mechanic. Mom has a high school diploma but she is only a bank teller. They knew nothing about college and neither did I, so I got pushed into attending a bottom tier state university in the literal middle of no where. Now I have a bachelors degree and can't find white collar work despite a 3.8 GPA. no family connections because they all work shit blue collar jobs, and we all live in a rural area with no jobs anyways. Starting a masters program at a decent school near NYC in August, so I'll finally be able to escape this white nigger existence and shrug off my parent's prole/white trash behavior.
>>25430962
This, Jesus Christ its so obvious just for the GI Bill.
My Grandpa was from rural North Dakota and ended up making 90k/year at the end of his career in the private sector using the skills he learned in the Air Force, he didn't even go to college, he was certified by a bunch of unions though.
>>25413609
i thought the comic would end with her marrying him, making the whole comic moot, i am disappointed
Make money on the internet. I was a poorfag and I made $100k and moved to a different country for lower taxes in 2015 online.
>>25432061
yes, it's just that easy. why didn't i think of it?
>>25415408
You're pants on head retarded if you believe this.
Most people who are born wealthy, die wealthy and the same is true for the poor.
>>25432096
Because all you guys do is complain.
>>25415837
Not that guy but my family is quite wealthy. I have accomplished nothing noteworthy in my 29 years on this planet (don't even have a bachelor's degree) but I will never have to struggle financially.
You're just deluded if you think that wealth isn't 99% luck.
>>25413791
I read this in my mind like it was some Monty Python Film
>first line is told loudly by some stereotypical swedish politician
>greentext is being sung by a choir of men doing stupid dances and stereotypical scandinavian things
>>25415360
>take on debt, goys, it's an investment in your future!!!
gee, i wonder who could be behind this post?
>>25415612
anyone could be rich if they had a million dollars or more to invest. you can live off the interest!
now imagine you have 10 million or 50 million! by parking money in a low-interest, safe, low-risk account, you can 'earn' more money than most americans do in a YEAR!
now isn't that something!
>tfw playing video games with my qt trap bf in a cheap 1 bedroom apartment
It's really nice, who could possibly need more?
>>25432780
future you who now has their teeth rotting out of their mouth and hospital bills from whichever illness decided to rear its head in your late 30s
Stop pretending it exists
>>25432780
>tfw used to have this life (as the qt trap)
It was amazing
>>25432582
Don't bother robot. The big boys on /pol/ taught him how to spout their memes, and now he'll be a servile rightist until he's dead.
The impressionability of some robots bothers me.
>>25413609
University of South Africa Online + McJob = Accredited Bachelor's Degree
Bachelor's Degree + English Teaching in South Korea + Saving 10 Years = Beach House in Thailand
IT CANT BE DONE
READ THE COMIC AND FEELS
DAE BAD LUCK LIKE THIS IF U NO MONEYS
>>25432810
Nope, I eat healthy, go to the gym, and my teeth are pretty much perfect. Never had a problem with them.
>>25432863
I'm sorry to hear you don't live that lifestyle anymore Anon. At least you know what's important in life moreso than money. Cuddling and enjoying hobbies with someone you really like is all you need.
>>25433061
time is coming for you no matter what you do (start saving)
