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   kaia (kaia@brotka.st)'s status on Thursday, 25-Jul-2024 07:03:27 JST kaia
   listening to the finance podcasts where people struggle helps me a lot to get a perspective. to understand that growing up poor conditions you to stay poor due to decisions you make.
   
   tbf I never had to think much about money before growing up very sheltered from reality.
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     lainy (lain@lain.com)'s status on Thursday, 25-Jul-2024 07:06:03 JST lainy

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     @kaia i don't think it's 'growing up poor'. i grew up middle class and i'm very bad with money. my wife's family had four children, all very different in their attitude towards saving, investing, all that stuff. by now i'm more inclined to believe it's genetic, but at least not terminally so.
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     kaia (kaia@brotka.st)'s status on Thursday, 25-Jul-2024 07:11:36 JST kaia

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     @lain it definitely has a genetic component.
     
     people with high neuroticism, who experience anxiety a lot, might be more inclined to invest due to a general negative outlook in life. or they are extremely high in neuroticism and might push it away as something too difficult to think about. or very low in neuroticism thinking it will work out fine.
     
     also conscientious comes into play: people more strict with themselves will be stricter with money. maybe because they experienced past adversity.
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     whiteline (whiteline@shitposter.world)'s status on Thursday, 25-Jul-2024 07:11:42 JST whiteline

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     @kaia i grew up welfare poor even though my mom was an academic, and i'm poor as a church rat as an adult due to various personal problems in combination with that
     
     an existence where you have enough money to like, invest it instead of just buying necessities or saving up for specific concrete things is very abstract and remote for me
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     lainy (lain@lain.com)'s status on Thursday, 25-Jul-2024 07:16:44 JST lainy

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     @kaia different tangent, watching caleb hammer it's crazy how delusional some people are. I know it's a show and played for views, but i know some of these type in IRL real life, as well as their mirror images (who want to buy a house no matter what because that's what you do in swabia)
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     mangeurdenuage :gnu: :trisquel: :gondola_head: 🌿 :abeshinzo: :ignucius: (mangeurdenuage@shitposter.world)'s status on Thursday, 25-Jul-2024 07:17:06 JST mangeurdenuage :gnu: :trisquel: :gondola_head: 🌿 :abeshinzo: :ignucius:

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     @kaia I always had to think about money but it wasn't my money nor me managing it.
     The little money I had was my grand parents who opened a laposte account and put some monthly and I should have been able to use it when I would have turned 18yo, my parents took everything on it.
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     kaia (kaia@brotka.st)'s status on Thursday, 25-Jul-2024 07:21:26 JST kaia

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     @lain I stopped watching Hammer, because he is just hammering people :Sheew: there's ramitsethi who seems a bit more psychological about it. what I saw so far is good.
     
     oof doesn't help when you have Swabian parents who go "why don't you just buy a house? we could buy a house, but we worked very hard! and you make 90k together!...."
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     :verified_2:防空識別區𝒔𝒐𝒄𝟶 (adiz@soc0.outrnat.nl)'s status on Thursday, 25-Jul-2024 07:21:33 JST :verified_2:防空識別區𝒔𝒐𝒄𝟶

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     @kaia@brotka.st @lain@lain.com my sister is neurotic and mental and useless with money whereas I'm generally very frugal

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     kaia (kaia@brotka.st)'s status on Thursday, 25-Jul-2024 07:22:28 JST kaia

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     @whiteline would you have to increase your income or would increasing it mean your expenses would just grow to match it? :02hug:
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     ロミンちゃん (romin@shitposter.world)'s status on Thursday, 25-Jul-2024 07:25:58 JST ロミンちゃん

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     >listening to the finance podcasts
     oh so you like being tortured
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     lainy (lain@lain.com)'s status on Thursday, 25-Jul-2024 07:44:23 JST lainy

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     @kaia I think you could do much more
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     kaia (kaia@brotka.st)'s status on Thursday, 25-Jul-2024 07:45:51 JST kaia

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     @lain your father bought the house from a bankrupted salesman and ruined his back on the cement mixer, but young people today just have a different attitude towards work
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     lainy (lain@lain.com)'s status on Thursday, 25-Jul-2024 07:47:44 JST lainy

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     @kaia I’m serious, you’re too smart for this stuff
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