Posted on 02/03/2024 4:29:04 AM PST by gattaca
TikTok video of a young woman complaining about having to work 40 hours a week went mega-viral with millions of views on social media.
The woman, who says her name is Eliza, posts under the moniker "SupposedlyASystem," and she says that it is impossible to enjoy life while working 40 hours in order to pay the rent.
"How do people manage to enjoy life while working full time?" she wrote on the video.
"So, I work 40 hours a week so I can have a two-bedroom apartment and an extra $300 a month," she says.
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Never worked a day in my life... Just bum off of the folks who like to work...
Miss work?
“Miss work?”
I miss my friends most of all.
Is this our path to 270?
Indeed
Your odds of serious house damage are 0.05%.
Why you want to make insurance company richer?
Those are fantastic odds in your favor.
If I never bought home insurance since 1970 when I bought my first home, and put the money in index funds, I would have $150,000 liquid assets. More than enough to cover repair costs. I skipped buying collision insurance for both cars in 1975. I am a safe driver, never had an accident. With the money saved I can buy 2 new cars.
Life has risks. Investing in stocks has risks. I play the game with insurance companies. Ify odds are 100 times better than I get in casinos, I will gamble on insurance.
There are a LOT of people out there on the road with NO insurance. All they do is once a year (if they even register the car) is go buy a month’s worth of insurance from some cheapo company (I won’t name them but you know who), get the tag/registration and then drop it. Repeat the next year.
Some Cuban who had lived in FL hit my daughter from behind in Georgia. No registration, no insurance, no DL. Got out, mumbled some stuff and ran back to his car and took off. But she got is tag and him in a video. His FELONY court case comes up next month and he’s just been served with civil suit, to boot.
Florida requires me to carry some form of liability insurance. The more expensive collision insurance is the part I have been skipping for many decades. You can do that if you don’t have a car loan.
OMG not very smart, get a two bedroom apt
get a roomate and split the rent.
econ 101
Yes most states do. I’m just telling you how some people get temporarily covered by these monthly doubt night shops.
But would you have done that? Sure we can talk about how “if we’d have put the money away” but we mostly wouldn’t. And sure you might be a safe driver, but other people aren’t. I’ve had 2 accidents, one when a person ran a red, and the other they made an illegal turn.
Life has risks. And insurance is useful for that. I’m not saying you should or shouldn’t. I’m saying if you think home insurance is only for smokers you’re full of crap. Life happens to EVERYBODY. Just cause you got lucky doesn’t mean you’re way is right.
I can get fender benders lot cheaper than paying collision insurance for decades. If my car is totaled, I can buy a new one or two with the money I saved by skipping collision insurance since 1964 when I bought my first new car without car loan.
That is another saving. When I buy a new car with cash, I have no car payments. I am disciplined saver. I put car payment money in SpX index funds every month. When I am ready to replace my car, there is cash available for next new car without any loans.
Maybe, IF you actually saved the money. I know the old Gallagher joke, insurance you betting the company that something bad will happen and they’re betting it won’t. But I always remember this: it was a bunch of shipping companies that invented insurance, for THEM to use, a whole other company got spawned to manage the insurance (Lloyds actually). And most of those companies that invented insurance still exist. So it just might work out to be a good idea.
Frankly America is over-insured. When we pay for house or car insurance, we are essentially subsidizing careless folks.
We might be over insured. Your “subsiding careless folks” line is pure 100% egotistical BS.
Insurance should only cover catastrophic losses to protect wealth.
In most cases, you’d be better off self-insuring.
I agree 100%. But there is no such insurance available for houses, cars or health. Obamacare has made healthcare costs go ballistic.
I am proud of my ego about having lived my life with extreme care in every aspect of life. It has been extremely profitable. I am now living the American dream by being careful about every aspect of my life. If you call that ego, go right ahead. It does not bother me.
It’s the stroking that makes it ego. And the fact that you won’t acknowledge that sometimes feces occurs and all the carefulness in the world won’t mean a thing and instead look down on those that do acknowledge it. That’s not only ego, it’s pathetic.
Whatever. I will live by my rules. You are free to live the way you want. Neither of us affect each others lives.
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